Islanders Gallant and Lenentine competing in Canadian Beef Masters in Truro starting Oct. 23 (GSOC)

Rachel Homan and her Ottawa-based team will kick off the Canadian Beef Masters facing Tracy Fleury’s club from Winnipeg in the opening draw.

Rachel Homan shoots a stone during the Princess Auto Elite 10 semifinals on Sept. 29, 2018, in Chatham-Kent, Ont. (Anil Mungal)

The Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling has set the round-robin match schedule for its second event and first major of the 2018-19 season taking place Oct. 23-28 at Rath Eastlink Arena in Truro, N.S.

Homan is a three-time winner of the Canadian Beef Masters and captured the crown the previous time Truro hosted the event in 2015.


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Reigning world junior champion Kaitlyn Jones and her Halifax-based team [which includes PEI’s Lauren Lenentine at third stone] received a sponsor’s exemption and highlight the opening-round action taking on Silvana Tirinzoni’s Swiss squad.

American Jamie Sinclair, the winner of last season’s Players’ Championship, meets Japan’s Satsuki Fujisawa.

Six-time Masters men’s champion Glenn Howard of Penetanguishene, Ont., will also hit the ice for the opening draw against men’s sponsor exemption Jamie Murphy of Halifax.

Olympic gold medallist John Shuster of Duluth, Minn., rounds out the opener against Matt Dunstone’s team from Regina.

2018 Canadian Beef Masters: Draw Schedule

DrawDate/TimeSheet ASheet BSheet CSheet DSheet E
 Tuesday, Oct. 23 
17:00 p.m.Howard vs. MurphySinclair vs. FujisawaTirinzoni vs. K. JonesShuster vs. DunstoneHoman vs. Fleury
 Wednesday, Oct. 24 
28:00 a.m.Roth vs. CareyHasselborg vs. ScheideggerEdin vs. PatersonMouat vs. WalstadMuirhead vs. Robertson
311:30 a.m.Gunnlaugson vs. CarruthersFleury vs. EinarsonEpping vs. SchwallerKoe vs. MurphyWalker vs. Sinclair
43:30 p.m. Muirhead vs. RothMouat vs. HowardJacobs vs. PatersonFujisawa vs. Scheidegger
57:30 p.m.Gushue vs. DunstoneJ. Jones vs. RobertsonGunnlaugson vs. ShusterHoman vs. TirinzoniEinarson vs. K. Jones
 Thursday, Oct. 25 
68:00 a.m. Epping vs. JacobsWalker vs. FujisawaEdin vs. SchwallerKoe vs. Walstad
711:30 a.m.Fleury vs. TirinzoniCarruthers vs. ShusterSinclair vs. ScheideggerRoth vs. RobertsonJ. Jones vs. Carey
83:30 p.m.Epping vs. PatersonKoe vs. HowardHoman vs. EinarsonHasselborg vs. WalkerMouat vs. Murphy
97:30 p.m.J. Jones vs. MuirheadGunnlaugson vs. DunstoneEdin vs. JacobsFleury vs. K. JonesGushue vs. Carruthers
 Friday, Oct. 26 
108:00 a.m.Hasselborg vs. SinclairEinarson vs. TirinzoniRobertson vs. Carey Paterson vs. Schwaller
1111:30 a.m.Walstad vs. MurphyHoman vs. K. JonesGushue vs. ShusterCarruthers vs. DunstoneEdin vs. Epping
123:30 p.m.Jacobs vs. SchwallerWalker vs. ScheideggerJ. Jones vs. RothMuirhead vs. CareyHasselborg vs. Fujisawa
138:00 p.m. Walstad vs. HowardKoe vs. MouatGushue vs. Gunnlaugson 
 Saturday, Oct. 27 
148:00 a.m.Tiebreakers (if necessary)
1511:30 a.m.Men’s Quarterfinals
164:00 p.m.Women’s Quarterfinals
 Sunday, Oct. 28 
1710:00 a.m.Men’s & Women’s Semifinals
182:00 p.m.Men’s Final
196:00 p.m.Women’s Final

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NOTE: Draw schedule subject to change.

The Canadian Beef Masters features 15 of the top men’s teams and 15 of the top women’s teams from around the world. Teams were invited based on the World Curling Tour’s Order of Merit rankings. The Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling reserved the right to invite a sponsor’s exemption for both divisions and implemented this rule for the Canadian Beef Masters awarding spots to Team Jamie Murphy and Team Kaitlyn Jones.

Both men’s and women’s divisions are split into three pools for round-robin competition. Teams play four round-robin games against the teams within their pools with the top eight overall on each side advancing to the playoffs.

Team Brad Gushue of St. John’s, N.L. [which includes PEI’s Brett Gallant], and Winnipeg’s Team Jennifer Jones enter the Canadian Beef Masters as the defending champions. Both clubs went undefeated through the event last season in Lloydminster, Sask.

Gushue is also coming off of a title victory to start the Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling season at the Princess Auto Elite 10 last month in Chatham-Kent, Ont. Sweden’s Team Anna Hasselborg was also victorious claiming the historic inaugural women’s championship in the event.

The Canadian Beef Masters is one of the four original events in the Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling, thus making it a major, and has been held every season since 2001-02.

A $250,000 purse is on the line plus points in the race for the Pinty’s Cup, which is awarded to the season champions. Winners of the Canadian Beef Masters also earn berths to the season-ending Humpty’s Champions Cup running April 23-28 at Saskatoon’s Merlis Belsher Arena.

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Can’t make it to Truro? Broadcast coverage of the Canadian Beef Masters begins Oct. 25 at 11:30 a.m. AT on Sportsnet and online at Sportsnet NOW (Canada) and Yare (international). For the full broadcast schedule, CLICK HERE.

Canadian Beef Masters Women’s Division (Click for team story)

Pool APool BPool C
Team HasselborgTeam J. JonesTeam Homan
Team SinclairTeam MuirheadTeam Fleury
Team WalkerTeam RothTeam Einarson
Team FujisawaTeam RobertsonTeam Tirinzoni
Team ScheideggerTeam CareyTeam K. Jones

Canadian Beef Masters Men’s Division (Click for team story)

Pool APool BPool C
Team EdinTeam GushueTeam Koe
Team EppingTeam GunnlaugsonTeam Mouat
Team JacobsTeam CarruthersTeam Walstad
Team PatersonTeam ShusterTeam Howard
Team SchwallerTeam DunstoneTeam Murphy
 

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