# 2012 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship

The 2012 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from December 7-11, 2011 at the Broomstones Curling Club in Wayland, Massachusetts. Brady Clark and his wife Cristin Clark won the tournament, earning the right to represent the United States at the 2012 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Erzurum, Turkey.

## Teams

Twenty one teams qualified to compete in the championship.
| Female | Male | State(s) |
| Cristin Clark | Brady Clark | Washington |
| Joyance Meechai | Mike Calcagno | New York, Washington |
| Sharon Vukich | Christopher Rimple | Washington |
| Nikki Rossetti | Nate Clark | Massachusetts, New Hampshire |
| Madonna Fitzgerald | Steve Pickle | North Dakota |
| Kim Nawyn | Jason Nawyn | Wisconsin, Massachusetts |
| Therese Olson | Scott Olson | Massachusetts |
| Maureen Stolt | Peter Stolt | Minnesota |
| Miyo Konno | Steve Lundeen | Washington |
| Jennifer Westhagen | Andrew Ernst | Washington |
| Jennifer Leichter | Alex Leichter | Massachusetts |
| Cynthia Eng-Dinsel | David Cornfield | Washington |
| Danielle Buchbinder | Michael Rupp | New York |
| Sharon Quill | Leonard Gaines | Massachusetts, New York |
| Chrissy Haase | Bryan Fink | New York, Massachusetts |
| Em Good | Jake Vukich | Washington |
| Britt Rjanikov | Barry Ivy | Massachusetts, California |
| Nicole Vassar | Sam Williams | Massachusetts |
| Michelle Summer | Gary Mazzotta | Minnesota |
| Brigid Ellig | Daniel Metcalf | Minnesota |
| Stephanie Squires | Daniel Cho | Connecticut, Rhode Island |

## Round robin
### Standings

The 21 teams were split into three pools; each pool played a round robin and at the end the top two teams advanced to the playoffs. The standings at the end of the round robin phase were:
Key :
* Teams to playoffs
* Teams to Tiebreaker
| Pool A | W | L |
| Clark / Clark | 6 | 0 |
| Rossetti / Clark | 4 | 2 |
| Olson / Olson | 3 | 3 |
| Fitzgerald / Pickle | 3 | 3 |
| Meechai / Calcagno | 2 | 4 |
| Nawyn / Nawyn | 2 | 4 |
| Vukich / Rimple | 1 | 5 |
| Pool B | W | L |
| Leichter / Leichter | 5 | 1 |
| Stolt / Stolt | 5 | 1 |
| Eng-Dinsel / Cornfield | 3 | 3 |
| Konno / Lundeen | 3 | 3 |
| Buchbinder / Rupp | 2 | 4 |
| Westhagen / Ernst | 2 | 4 |
| Quill / Gaines | 1 | 5 |
| Pool C | W | L |
| Rjanikov / Ivy | 5 | 1 |
| Haase / Fink | 4 | 2 |
| Vassar / Williams | 4 | 2 |
| Good / Vukich | 4 | 2 |
| Ellig / Metcalf | 3 | 3 |
| Squires / Cho | 1 | 5 |
| Summer / Mazzota | 0 | 6 |

### Tiebreakers

Saturday, December 10, 8:00pm ET
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Good/Vukich | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| Haase/Fink | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
Sunday, December 11, 8:00am ET
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Vassar/Williams | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Good/Vukich | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 |

## Playoffs

The playoffs consisted of a 6-team bracket with the top two teams directly in the semifinals. There was a two-loss provision included, such that a team was not eliminated until they had two losses in the tournament. Because the team of Brady and Cristin Clark entered the playoffs undefeated, they were not eliminated when they lost to Peter and Maureen Stolt in the semifinals and instead got to challenge the winner of the first round of the championship, Alex and Jennifer Leichter, for the title.

### Bracket

| Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final: round 1 | Final: round 1 | Final: round 1 | Final: round 2 | Final: round 2 | Final: round 2 |
| | | | Clark/Clark | Clark/Clark | 5 | | | | | | |
| Stolt/Stolt | Stolt/Stolt | 7 | Stolt/Stolt | Stolt/Stolt | 6 | | | | | | |
| Good/Vukich | Good/Vukich | 2 | | | | Stolt/Stolt | Stolt/Stolt | 6 | | | |
| | | | | | | Leichter/Leichter | Leichter/Leichter | 7 | | | |
| | | | Leichter/Leichter | Leichter/Leichter | 9 | | | | | | |
| Rjanikov/Ivy | Rjanikov/Ivy | 7 | Rjanikov/Ivy | Rjanikov/Ivy | 2 | | | | | | |
| Rossetti/Clark | Rossetti/Clark | 1 | | | | | | | Leichter/Leichter | Leichter/Leichter | 6 |
| | | | | | | | | | Clark/Clark | Clark/Clark | 9 |

### Quarterfinals

Sunday, December 11, 11:30am ET
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Stolt/Stolt | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | X | 7 |
| Good/Vukich | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 2 |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Rjanikov/Ivy | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | X | X | 7 |
| Rossetti/Clark | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | X | 1 |

### Semifinals

Sunday, December 11, 3:00pm ET
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Clark/Clark | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Stolt/Stolt | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Leichter/Leichter | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | X | 9 |
| Rjanikov/Ivy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 2 |

### Final: round 1

Sunday, December 11, 6:30pm ET
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Stolt/Stolt | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Leichter/Leichter | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |

### Final: round 2

Sunday, December 11, 6:30pm ET
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| Leichter/Leichter | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | X | 6 |
| Clark/Clark | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | X | 9 |