# 2019 Boston Pizza Cup

The 2019 Alberta Boston Pizza Cup presented by Best Western, the provincial men's curling championship for Alberta, was held from February 6 to 10 at the Ellerslie Curling Club in Edmonton, Alberta. The winning Kevin Koe team represented Alberta at the 2019 Tim Hortons Brier in Brandon, Manitoba.

## Qualification

| Qualification | Berths | Qualifying team(s) |
| Defending champion | 1 | Brendan Bottcher |
| CTRS leader | 1 | Kevin Koe |
| Alberta Tour | 2 | Karsten Sturmay Ted Appelman |
| Medicine Hat Qualifier | 3 | Scott Garnett Dale Goehring Jeremy Harty |
| Sherwood Park Qualifier | 3 | James Pahl Aaron Sluchinski Warren Cross |
| Manning Qualifier | 2 | Daylan Vavrek Corey Leach |

## Teams

The teams are listed as follows:
| Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Club |
| Brendan Bottcher | Darren Moulding | Bradley Thiessen | Karrick Martin | | Saville Sports Centre, Edmonton |
| Kevin Koe | B. J. Neufeld | Colton Flasch | Ben Hebert | | The Glencoe Club, Calgary |
| Karsten Sturmay | Tristan Steinke | Jason Ginter | Glen Venance | | Saville Sports Centre, Edmonton |
| Ted Appelman | Nathan Connolly | Shawn Donnelly | Adam Enright | | Avonair Curling Club, Edmonton |
| Scott Garnett | Tyler Lautner | Craig Bourgonje | Matthew McDonald | | Strathmore Curling Club, Strathmore |
| Dale Goehring | Jeff Phenix | Fred Edwards | Andrew Brotherhood | | The Glencoe Club, Calgary |
| Jeremy Harty | Kyler Kleibrink | Joel Berger | Kurtis Goller | | The Glencoe Club, Calgary |
| James Pahl | Glen Kennedy | Roland Robinson | Jason Lesmeister | | Sherwood Park Curling Club, Sherwood Park / Ellerslie Curling Club, Edmonton |
| Aaron Sluchinski | Dylan Webster | Eric Richard | Justin Sluchinski | | Airdrie Curling Club, Airdrie |
| Warren Cross | Tyler Pfeiffer | Cody Bartlett | Kendall Warawa | | Saville Sports Centre, Edmonton |
| Daylan Vavrek | Carter Lautner | Rob Maksymetz | Evan Asmussen | Mick Lizmore | Sexsmith Curling Club, Sexsmith |
| Corey Leach | Rodney Ouellette | Cody Leach | Kyle Leach | | Lac La Biche Curling Club, Lac La Biche |

## Knockout brackets

The draw is listed as follows:

### A Event

| A Event | A Event | A Event | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | A Qualifier | A Qualifier | A Qualifier |
| | | | Koe | Koe | 3 | | | | | | |
| Harty | Harty | 9 | Harty | Harty | 6 | | | | | | |
| Garnett | Garnett | 3 | | | | Harty | Harty | 3 | | | |
| Pahl | Pahl | 3 | | | | Appelman | Appelman | 10 | | | |
| Leach | Leach | 6 | Leach | Leach | 5 | | | | | | |
| | | | Appelman | Appelman | 7 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | Appelman | Appelman | 10 |
| | | | | | | | | | Bottcher | Bottcher | 4 |
| | | | Sturmay | Sturmay | 6 | | | | | | |
| Sluchinski | Sluchinski | 11 | Sluchinski | Sluchinski | 7 | | | | | | |
| Goehring | Goehring | 4 | | | | Sluchinski | Sluchinski | 1 | | | |
| Vavrek | Vavrek | 7 | | | | Bottcher | Bottcher | 6 | | | |
| Cross | Cross | 6 | Vavrek | Vavrek | 4 | | | | | | |
| | | | Bottcher | Bottcher | 8 | | | | | | |

### B Event

| B Event | B Event | B Event | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | B Qualifier | B Qualifier | B Qualifier |
| Leach | Leach | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| Garnett | Garnett | 8 | Sluchinski | Sluchinski | 8 | | | | | | |
| | | | Garnett | Garnett | 9 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | Garnett | Garnett | 5 | | | |
| Sturmay | Sturmay | 7 | | | | Harty | Harty | 8 | | | |
| Cross | Cross | 6 | Harty | Harty | 7 | | | | | | |
| | | | Sturmay | Sturmay | 2 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | Harty | Harty | 2 |
| Vavrek | Vavrek | 7 | | | | | | | Bottcher | Bottcher | 9 |
| Goehring | Goehring | 5 | Vavrek | Vavrek | 7 | | | | | | |
| Koe | Koe | 7 | Koe | Koe | 6 | | | | | | |
| Pahl | Pahl | 1 | | | | Vavrek | Vavrek | 4 | | | |
| | | | | | | Bottcher | Bottcher | 12 | | | |

### C Event

| C Event | C Event | C Event | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | C1 Qualifier | C1 Qualifier | C1 Qualifier |
| | | | Leach | Leach | 4 | | | |
| Leach | Leach | 9 | Vavrek | Vavrek | 9 | | | |
| Cross | Cross | 1 | | | | Vavrek | Vavrek | 6 |
| | | | | | | Koe | Koe | 7 |
| | | | Koe | Koe | 9 | | | |
| | | | Garnett | Garnett | 2 | | | |
| C Event | C Event | C Event | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | C2 Qualifier | C2 Qualifier | C2 Qualifier |
| Goehring | Goehring | 5 | | | | | | |
| Sluchinski | Sluchinski | 6 | Sluchinski | Sluchinski | 3 | | | |
| Sturmay | Sturmay | 8 | Sturmay | Sturmay | 9 | | | |
| Pahl | Pahl | 5 | | | | Harty | Harty | 3 |
| | | | | | | Sturmay | Sturmay | 7 |

## Playoffs

| Page playoff system | Page playoff system | Page playoff system | Semifinal | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final | Final |
| A | Ted Appelman | 8 | | | | A | Ted Appelman | 5 |
| B | Brendan Bottcher | 3 | | | | C1 | Kevin Koe | 9 |
| | | | B | Brendan Bottcher | 5 | | | |
| | | | C1 | Kevin Koe | 7 | | | |
| C1 | Kevin Koe | 8 | | | | | | |
| C2 | Karsten Sturmay | 4 | | | | | | |

### A vs. B

February 9, 6:30pm
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
| Ted Appelman | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | X | X | X | 8 |
| Brendan Bottcher | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | X | X | 3 |

### C1 vs. C2

February 9, 6:30pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
| Kevin Koe | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | X | 8 |
| Karsten Sturmay | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 4 |

### Semifinal

February 10, 11:00am
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
| Brendan Bottcher | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Kevin Koe | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 |

### Final

February 10, 5:00pm
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
| Ted Appelman | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | 5 |
| Kevin Koe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | X | 9 |
* 2019 Boston Pizza Cup
* Kevin Koe 6th Alberta Provincial Championship title