The first Final Eight team to be chosen was the Charlottetown Curling Club rink of Rod MacDonald, Kevin Champion, Andrew Robinson, and Mark O’Rourke, with fifth player Peter MacDonald, and coach Pat Aylward. Champion and O’Rourke were members of last year’s championship team. Seeded number three going into the event, the MacDonald rink  beat top seed Mike Gaudet, also from the Charlottetown club, 6-2 in the first of two A pool finals in this triple-knockout event, stealing singles in the last three ends en route to the win.

The John Likely foursome, seeded second, were the second team to advance to the Final Eight. Likely’s team includes Phil Gorveatt, Mark Butler, and Mike Dillon, with fifth Robert Campbell. They shaded their Charlottetown clubmates the Kyle Stevenson rink by a 5-4 score in an extra end. Likely stole the ninth end to lead 4-2 coming home. Stevenson forced the extra end with a double, but Likely recorded a single in the extra for the trip to the Eights.

Final Eight team number three is the Charlottetown Curling Club foursome of Jamie Newson, Tim Hockin, Darren Higgins, and Matthew MacCarville, who beat the Daryl MacDonald rink from the Maple Leaf Curling Club in O’Leary by a 13-4 score in the first of four B section qualifier games. MacDonald started out well, taking a pair in the first end, and stole another deuce in the second for a 4-0 lead. Things went downhill rapidly, though, with Newson taking a six-ender in the third, following it with steals of one, two, and four points to put the game out of reach after only six ends of play.

The fourth team to qualify is this year’s Provincial Seniors Champions, the Mel Bernard rink from the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside. Bernards teammates are Blair Jay, Doug Simmons, and Earle Proude. Seeded eighth, they beat number four seed Kyle Stevenson by a 9-8 score in an extra end to advance to the Eights.

The number five spot goes to Ted MacFadyen from the Charlottetown club, veteran of five Labatt Tankard championships, and six Seniors titles, and runner-up to Bernard in this year’s Seniors final. MacFadyen, and his team of Craig Mackie, David Murphy and Mike Coady, with coach Al Ledgerwood, beat newcomer Jeff Wilson, also from Charlottetown, by a 9-4 score, taking four points in the seventh, to end the game early.

The final B section Final Eight qualifier is top seed Mike Gaudet and his Charlottetown Curling Club rink of Eddie MacKenzie, Tyler Harris, and Sean Clarey, who beat the Terry Arsenault rink from the Silver Fox by a 7-5 score on the Saturday evening qualifying game. A stolen triple in the third end game Gaudet an early lead, which he maintained through the game, keeping the Arsenault foursome from scoring more than a single in the remaining ends.

The final two spots in the Eights will be decided on Sunday, with draws at 1 and 6 pm.

The 6 pm final for spot number seven will see Bill Hope play the winner of a 1 pm game between Kyle Stevenson and Charlottetown clubmate Calvin Smith. Hope beat Charlottetown clubmate Robert Shaw 7-5 on Saturday night to advance to the qualifying game.

The last spot in the Eights will also be decided at 6 pm, when the winners of 1 pm games between Daryl MacDonald and Clair Sweet, both from the Maple Leaf club, and between Jeff Wilson and Terry Arsenault will play off

The winning team from the Final Eight round will advance to the Tim Horton Brier, March 7-15 in Calgary.