# 2016 Continental Cup of Curling

The 2016 World Financial Group Continental Cup of Curling was held from January 14 to 17 at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada. This marked the second edition of the Continental Cup to be held outside of Canada. The Continental Cup featured team events, mixed doubles events, and skins competitions, with most points available in the skins competitions. TSN broadcast the event, as it had in previous years.
The total attendance for the event was 62,498, the highest in Cup history (as of 2017). Team North America collected CAD$52,000 winners cheque and CAD$13,000 skins bonus. Team World collected CAD$26,000 losers cheque.

## Competition format

This edition of the Continental Cup used a similar format as that of the previous year, with the main difference being the elimination of the singles event, which was replaced by an additional mixed doubles event. Out of the sixty total points available, a majority of points were needed to win the cup. The mixed doubles, and team games were worth one point each, with ties being worth one half point each to both teams. The skins games were worth a total of five points. Six mixed doubles and six singles games were played, along with eighteen team games and six skins games.

## Teams

The teams were selected from the top teams in each region. Six teams from each region competed against each other in the competition. Four teams from Canada earned the right to represent Team North America by virtue of winning certain events, namely the Canada Cup of Curling and the Canadian National Championships (the Brier and the Tournament of Hearts). Two teams from the United States, namely the winners of the United States National Championships, were chosen to represent North America, and the teams representing Team World were selected by the World Curling Federation.
The teams in the table below were announced as representatives of their respective regions. For Team North America, the teams participating included Canada Cup champions Kevin Koe and Rachel Homan, Tournament of Hearts champion Jennifer Jones, Brier champion Pat Simmons, and United States national champions Erika Brown and John Shuster. For Team World, the teams participating include reigning women's world champion Alina Pätz, Olympic bronze medallist Eve Muirhead, two-time world champion Niklas Edin, Japanese women's national champion Ayumi Ogasawara, Chinese men's national champion Zang Jialiang, and world champion Thomas Ulsrud.
| Team | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Locale |
| Team North America | Erika Brown | Allison Pottinger | Nicole Joraanstad | Natalie Nicholson | Madison, Wisconsin |
| Team North America | Jennifer Jones | Kaitlyn Lawes | Jill Officer | Dawn McEwen | Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| Team North America | Rachel Homan | Emma Miskew | Joanne Courtney | Lisa Weagle | Ottawa, Ontario |
| Team North America | Kevin Koe | Marc Kennedy | Brent Laing | Ben Hebert | Calgary, Alberta |
| Team North America | Pat Simmons | John Morris | Carter Rycroft | Nolan Thiessen | Calgary, Alberta |
| Team North America | John Shuster | Tyler George | Matt Hamilton | John Landsteiner | Duluth, Minnesota |
| Coach: Rick Lang, Captain: Ann Swisshelm |||||
| Team World | Alina Pätz | Nadine Lehmann | Marisa Winkelhausen | Nicole Schwägli | Baden |
| Team World | Eve Muirhead | Anna Sloan | Vicki Adams | Sarah Reid | Stirling |
| Team World | Niklas Edin | Oskar Eriksson | Kristian Lindström | Christoffer Sundgren | Karlstad |
| Team World | Ayumi Ogasawara | Sayaka Yoshimura | Kaho Onodera | Anna Ohmiya | Sapporo |
| Team World | Thomas Ulsrud | Torger Nergård | Christoffer Svae | Håvard Vad Petersson | Oslo |
| Team World | Zang Jialiang | Xu Xiaoming | Ba Dexin | Wang Jinbo | Harbin |
| Coach: Pål Trulsen, Captain: Andy Kapp |||||

## Events

All times listed are in Pacific Standard Time (UTC−8). The draws for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday were released on Wednesday night, and the draws for Sunday will be released on Saturday afternoon.

### Thursday, January 14
#### Draw 1

Team 8:30 am
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Homan) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 8 | ½ |
| World (Muirhead) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | ½ |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Koe) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 9 | 1 |
| World (Ulsrud) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | X | 5 | 0 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Brown) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 2 | 0 |
| World (Pätz) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | X | 8 | 1 |

#### Draw 2

Mixed doubles 1:00 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Hebert/Miskew) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| World (Ulsrud/Adams) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Kennedy/Lawes) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | ½ |
| World (Nergård/Muirhead) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | ½ |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Rycroft/Brown) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
| World (Svae/Sloan) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 |

#### Draw 3

Team 6:30 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Simmons) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| World (Zang) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Jones) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | X | 8 | 1 |
| World (Ogasawara) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 3 | 0 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Shuster) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| World (Edin) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 |

### Friday, January 15
#### Draw 4

Team 8:30 am
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Jones) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 6 | 1 |
| World (Pätz) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | X | 3 | 0 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Shuster) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| World (Zang) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Homan) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | X | 7 | 1 |
| World (Ogasawara) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 1 | 0 |

#### Draw 5

Mixed doubles 1:00 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Laing/Jones) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| World (Sundgren/Pätz) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (George/Nicholson) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 2 | 0 |
| World (Xu/Winkelhausen) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | X | 8 | 1 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Morris/Homan) | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 |
| World (Eriksson/Yoshimura) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 |

#### Draw 6

Team 6:30 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Koe) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| World (Edin) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Brown) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 2 | 0 |
| World (Muirhead) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | X | 6 | 1 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Simmons) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| World (Ulsrud) | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 |

### Saturday, January 16
#### Draw 7

Mixed doubles 9:00 am
After the first four ends, the players on each team were replaced with new players.
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Weagle/Thiessen/Courtney/Koe) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | X | 4 | 0 |
| World (Petersson/Reid/Ohmiya/Edin) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | X | 8 | 2 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Shuster/McEwen/Officer/Hamilton) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
| World (Lindström/Lehmann/Schwägli/Zang) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Simmons/Joraanstad/Pottinger/Landsteiner) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | 3 | 0 |
| World (Ba/Onodera/Ogasawara/Wang) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | X | 9 | 2 |

#### Draw 8

Team 1:00 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Brown) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | X | 7 | 1 |
| World (Ogasawara) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 2 | 0 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Simmons) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ½ |
| World (Edin) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | ½ |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Jones) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| World (Muirhead) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |

#### Draw 9

Team 6:30 pm
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Shuster) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| World (Ulsrud) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Homan) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| World (Pätz) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final | Points |
| North America (Koe) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | 7 | 1 |
| World (Zang) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | X | 2 | 0 |

### Sunday, January 17
#### Draw 10

Skins 1:00 pm
| Values (points) | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | | 5 |
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Button | Total |
| North America (Shuster) | | X | X | X | | X | | 0 | | 3 |
| World (Zang) | 0 | | | | 0 | | 0 | | X | 2 |
| Values (points) | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | | 5 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Button | Total |
| North America (Simmons/Lawes/Rycroft/Officer) | X | X | | X | X | X | | 0 | | 2½ |
| World (Ulsrud/Pätz/Svae/Schwägli) | | | X | | | | X | | X | 2½ |
| Values (points) | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Total |
| North America (Brown) | X | | 0 | | 0 | | X | X | 2½ |
| World (Ogasawara) | | 0 | | X | | X | | | 2½ |

#### Draw 11

Skins 6:30 pm
| Values (points) | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | | 5 |
| Sheet A | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Button | Total |
| North America (Koe) | | | X | X | | 0 | | 0 | | 1 |
| World (Edin) | X | X | | | X | | 0 | | X | 4 |
| Values (points) | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Sheet B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Total |
| North America (Morris/Pottinger/Thiessen/Nicholson) | X | X | X | | | X | | X | 3 |
| World (Nergård/Lehmann/Petersson/Winkelhausen) | | | | X | X | | X | | 2 |
| Values (points) | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Sheet C | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Total |
| North America (Jones) | 0 | | 0 | X | | 0 | X | | 4 |
| World (Muirhead) | | 0 | | | 0 | | | X | 1 |