# 2019 WCT Arctic Cup

The 2019 WCT Arctic Cup was held May 23 to 26 at the Taimyr Ice Arena in Dudinka, Russia. It was the final event of the 2018–19 curling season. In the final, Scottish Team Muirhead defeated Russian Team Kovaleva 5–4 to claim the title. Canadian Team Einarson defeated Team Sidorova from Russia to win the 3rd place medal. The total purse for the event was $US 50,000.

## Teams

The teams are listed as follows:
| Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Locale |
| Kerri Einarson | Val Sweeting | Shannon Birchard | Briane Meilleur | | Gimli, Manitoba, Canada |
| Binia Feltscher | Carole Howald | Stefanie Berset | Larissa Hari | | Flims, Switzerland |
| Eszter Juhász | Tiina Suuripää | Noora Suuripää | Marjo Hippi | | Hyvinkää, Finland |
| Kim Kyeong-ae | Kim Seon-yeong | Kim Yeong-mi | Kim Cho-hi | | Uiseong, South Korea |
| Alina Kovaleva | Anastasia Bryzgalova | Galina Arsenkina | Ekaterina Kuzmina | Uliana Vasilyeva | Saint-Petersburg, Russia |
| Eve Muirhead | Lauren Gray | Vicky Wright | Vicki Chalmers | | Stirling, Scotland |
| Vlada Rumiantseva | Daria Morozova | Irina Riazanova | Vera Tiuliakova | Anastasia Mishchenko | Moscow, Russia |
| Anna Sidorova | Margarita Fomina | Yulia Portunova | Julia Guzieva | Nkeirouka Ezekh | Moscow, Russia |
| Anna Venevtseva | Ekaterina Galkina | Christina Dudko | Olga Zharkova | | Krasnoyarsk, Russia |
| Isabella Wranå | Almida de Val | Fanny Sjöberg | Maria Larsson | | Stockholm, Sweden |

## Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings
Key :
* Teams to Playoffs
| Pool A | W | L |
| Kerri Einarson | 4 | 0 |
| Anna Sidorova | 2 | 2 |
| Binia Feltscher | 2 | 2 |
| Vlada Rumiantseva | 2 | 2 |
| Eszter Juhász | 0 | 4 |
| Pool B | W | L |
| Eve Muirhead | 4 | 0 |
| Alina Kovaleva | 3 | 1 |
| Anna Venevtseva | 2 | 2 |
| Kim Kyeong-ae | 1 | 3 |
| Isabella Wranå | 0 | 4 |

## Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in Krasnoyarsk Standard Time (UTC+07:00).

### Draw 1

Thursday, May 23, 14:30
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Vlada Rumiantseva | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Eszter Juhász | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Binia Feltscher | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Anna Sidorova | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |

### Draw 2

Thursday, May 23, 18:00
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Isabella Wranå | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Eve Muirhead | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Anna Venevtseva | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Alina Kovaleva | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 |

### Draw 3

Friday, May 24, 09:00
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Binia Feltscher | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Kerri Einarson | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Anna Sidorova | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | X | X | 11 |
| Eszter Juhász | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | X | 1 |

### Draw 4

Friday, May 24, 12:00
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Anna Venevtseva | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Kim Kyeong-ae | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Alina Kovaleva | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 2 |
| Eve Muirhead | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 3 |

### Draw 5

Friday, May 24, 16:00
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kerri Einarson | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | X | X | 11 |
| Anna Sidorova | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | X | 1 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Vlada Rumiantseva | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Binia Feltscher | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |

### Draw 6

Friday, May 24, 19:00
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kim Kyeong-ae | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | X | 1 |
| Alina Kovaleva | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | X | X | 8 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Isabella Wranå | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 3 |
| Anna Venevtseva | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | X | 8 |

### Draw 7

Saturday, May 25, 09:00
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Eszter Juhász | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | X | 1 |
| Binia Feltscher | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 9 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kerri Einarson | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 6 |
| Vlada Rumiantseva | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | X | 1 |

### Draw 8

Saturday, May 25, 12:00
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Eve Muirhead | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | X | X | 13 |
| Anna Venevtseva | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 1 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kim Kyeong-ae | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Isabella Wranå | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |

### Draw 9

Saturday, May 25, 16:00
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Anna Sidorova | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| Vlada Rumiantseva | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Eszter Juhász | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 2 |
| Kerri Einarson | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | X | 10 |

### Draw 10

Saturday, May 25, 19:00
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Alina Kovaleva | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | X | X | X | 6 |
| Isabella Wranå | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | X | X | 1 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Eve Muirhead | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | X | X | 7 |
| Kim Kyeong-ae | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 2 |

## Playoffs

Source:
| Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final |
| A1 | Kerri Einarson | 4 | | | |
| B2 | Alina Kovaleva | 5 | | | |
| B2 | Alina Kovaleva | 5 | B2 | Alina Kovaleva | 4 |
| | | | B1 | Eve Muirhead | 5 |
| B1 | Eve Muirhead | 8 | B1 | Eve Muirhead | 5 |
| A2 | Anna Sidorova | 2 | | | |
| Third place game | Third place game | Third place game |
| A1 | Kerri Einarson | 5 |
| A2 | Anna Sidorova | 4 |

### Semifinals

Sunday, May 26, 09:00
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kerri Einarson | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Alina Kovaleva | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Eve Muirhead | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | X | X | 8 |
| Anna Sidorova | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | X | 2 |

### Third place game

Sunday, May 26, 14:00
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Kerri Einarson | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Anna Sidorova | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |

### Final

Sunday, May 26, 14:00
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Alina Kovaleva | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Eve Muirhead | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |