CurlManitoba Rulebook - Manitoba Curling Association

QUALIFYING FOR PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
1. Teams competing for Provincial Championship berths through bonspiels will be subject
to bonspiel rules.
2. All berth bonspiels, sport region Qualifiers and bonspiels with a berth will use a semimodified
double knock out draw with a qualifier based on the number of teams
competing. CurlManitoba reserves the right to alter any draw format.
3. It is the sole responsibility of every team member to ensure the club they are
representing has submitted their name to CurlManitoba no later than
December 5, 2013. Any individual not on the club’s membership list will be
deemed ineligible.
4. All entries are the sole responsibility of the “signature of approval” on the entry form.
This person is the only person authorized to alter an entry, therefore maintaining the
team‟s eligibility affirmation.
5. A team may register 5 players. During the bonspiel or the sport region qualifier only the
5 registered players may compete and the 5 players can play any position.
6. NO SPARES ALLOWED.
7. 30 minutes prior to all games in any CurlManitoba competition (Sport Region Qualifiers
and Berth Bonspiels), the team MUST submit a completed and signed line up card and
give to the designated person. The penalty for not submitting the card is loss of
hammer in the first game the team has earned the hammer. Failure may also result in
making a team ineligible. During Provincial competition line up cards will only be
changed when there is a player change.
8. Notification of the draw and event rules will come by email from the CurlManitoba office.
9. No payouts will be awarded at Sport Region Qualifiers and Berth Bonspiels.
10. Pre-game practice ice shall be provided during Sport Region qualifiers and berth
bonspiels. Each team will have a 5 minutes practice on the sheet they will play on - or
may throw 8 stones down and back – whichever is the lesser. If a team is not present
for the coin toss they will be deemed to have lost the toss. Based on the coin toss,
teams will have choice first practice or last practice. First practice will begin at 20
minutes prior to game time. A bell will ring to signify the beginning and conclusion of
each practice session allowing for teams to switch over. A named fifth player may
participate in the pre-game practice.
11. The hammer will be determined by a draw to the house by one player at the completion
of the team‟s practice.
Exception: All junior events will use the a coin toss 20 minutes prior to the
game; the choice of last practice or hammer will be determined.
12. All Sport Region Qualifiers and Berth Bonspiels will be seeded by the teams that have
entered the event. The teams will have from Friday until Monday NOON turnaround
time to respond with their seeds. TEAMS WILL NOT SEED THEMSELVES.
13. At any Sport Region Qualifier and Berth Bonspiel with more than one spot the bonspiel
will be declared complete once the spots are declared. (For example, the junior berth
bonspiel has 2 spots so there will be no final game.)
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