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STOCKHOLM LADIES CUP 2015 www.slcc.se

Twitter: @stockholmlcc #stockholmladies www.facebook.com/Stockholm-Ladies-Curling-Cup

ABOUT THE SLCC The Stockholm Ladies Curling Cup (SLCC) is an annual international event on the Curling Champions Tour. Points earned in this event also count for the . The 2015 event will be held from September 25-27 in the Danderyd Curling Arena. 20 of the world’s top women’s curling teams will play each other for the 2015 title. The event is a co-operation between Stocksunds Curlingklubb, the Swedish Curling Association and the Curling Champions Tour. This year, the purse for the event is 270,000 SEK. There will be no third place game. The two semi-final runner-ups will be placed third. The prize purse will be distributed as follows: 1. 100000 SEK 2. 60000 SEK 3. 25000 SEK 3. 25000 SEK 5. 15000 SEK 5. 15000 SEK 5. 15000 SEK 5. 15000 SEK

ABOUT THE CURLING CHAMPIONS TOUR The Curling Champions Tour (CCT) is a Word Class Elite Series of Curling and is recognized by International Curling Associations and is a partner of the World Curling Tour. Elite curlers from Europe, the America’s and Pacific-Asian regions compete from August through to April in a series of CCT events. The winning team with the most points collected throughout the season is declared CCT Men’s or Women’s Champion. www.curlingchampionstour.org/ www.facebook.com/Curling-Champions-Tour @curling_tour #cct Current Order of Merit Women’s standings

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PARTICIPATING TEAMS

Pool A Team Muirhead (SCO) Lead: : Bronze 2014 Second: Vicki Adams World Curling Championships: Gold 2013 Third: WCT Players Chmpions: 2014 and 2015 Fourth: World Curling Tour Rank: 3 Coach: David Hay

Team Panthera / Wranå (SWE) Lead: Fanny Sjöberg Swedish Super League Champions 2015 Second: Johanna Höglund EJCT Champions 2015 Third: Jennie Wåhlin World Curling Tour Rank: 73 Fourth: Isabella Wranå Skip Coach: Gerry Wåhlin

Team Flims / Feltscher (SUI) Lead: World Curling Championships: Gold 2014 Second: European Curling Championships: Gold 2014 Third: World Curling Tour Rank: 8 Fourth: Skip

Team Nielsen (DEN) Lead: World Curling Tour Rank: 46 Second: Stephanie Risdal Nielsen Third: Helle Simonsen Fourth: Skip

Team Ahlmarks / Östlund (SWE) Lead: Paulina Stein Swedish Champions 2015 Second: Sara Carlsson World Curling Tour Rank: 31 Third: Fourth: Cissi Östlund Skip MEDIA GUIDE

PARTICIPATING TEAMS

Pool B Team Baden Regio Halter / Pätz (SUI) Lead: Nicole Schwägli World Curling Championships: Gold 2015 Second: Marisa Winkelhausen World Curling Tour Rank: 6 Third: Fourth: Alina Pätz Skip Coach:

Team Watch City / Barbezat (SUI) Lead: Daniela Rupp Winner of CCT Dumfries 2014 Second: Third place in Swiss Championships 2015 Third: World Curling Tour Rank: 63 Fourth: Skip

Team AllTele / Sigfridsson (SWE) Lead: Skip Olympic Games: Silver 2014 Second: Maria Wennerström/ World Curling Championships: Silver 2012, 2013 Third: European Curling Championships: Gold 2013, silver 2011 Fourth: World Curling Tour Rank: 10 Coach: Fredrik Hallström

Team Gray (SCO) Lead: Mhairi Baird World Curling Tour Rank: 38 Second: Third: Jen Dodds Fourth: Skip

Team Matsumura (JAP) Lead: Hasumi Ishigooka World Curling Tour Rank: 29 Second: Ikue Kitazawa Vice Third: Emi Shimizu Fourth: Chiaki Matsumura Skip MEDIA GUIDE

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Pool C Team Jones (CAN) Lead: Olympic Games: Gold 2014 Second: World Curling Championships: Silver 2015 Third: Canadian Champions 2015 Fourth: Skip World Curling Tour Rank: 2 Coach: Wendy Morgan

Team Åland / Kauste (FIN) Lead: Marjo Hippi Finnish team for the season 2015-2016 Second: World Curling Tour Rank: 87 Third: Milja Hellsten Alternate: Jenni Räsänen Fourth: Skip

Team Sidorova (RUS) Lead: Alina Kovaleva World Curling Championships: Bronze 2015, 2014 Second: Alexandra Raeva European Curling Championships: Silver 2014 Third: World Curling Tour Rank: 7 Fourth: Skip Alternate: Nkeiruka Ezekh Coach: Svetlana Kalalb

Team Fleming (SCO) Lead: Abi Brown World Junior Championships: Gold 2012, silver 2013 Second: World Curling Tour Rank: 41 Third: Fourth: Skip

Team Eggerbier / Jäggi (SUI) Lead: Vera Camponovo World Curling Tour Rank: 26 Second: Stephanie Jäggi Third: Fourth: Michele Jäggi Skip MEDIA GUIDE

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Pool D Team Homan (CAN) Lead: World Curling Championships: Silver 2014, bronze 2013 Second: Canadian Champions: 2014 and 2013 Third: World Curling Tour Rank: 1 Fourth: Skip

Team Gim (KOR) Lead: Yeom yoon jung Korea National Team Second: Um min ji World Curling Tour Rank: 71 Third: Lee seul bee Fourth: Gim un chi Skip Coach: Shin dong ho

Team PwC / Tirinzoni (SUI) Lead: Winner Grand Slam 2015 Second: World Curling Tour Rank: 5 Third: Fourth: Skip

Team SCR Garmisch / Schöpp (GER) Lead: Lisa Ruch European Curling Championships: 2014 rank 7 Second: Selina Ruch German Champions 2015 Third: World Curling Tour Rank: 40 Fourth: Andrea Schöpp Skip Coach: Rainer Schöpp

Team ÅF / Hasselborg (SWE) Lead: World Curling Tour Rank: 20 Second: Third: Sara McManus Fourth: Skip MEDIA GUIDE

EVENT FORMAT Stockholm Ladies Curling Cup is played in a Round Robin format with four groups of five teams. The top two teams of each group advance to quarterfinals. Teams play eight end games.

DRAW SCHEDULE

DRAW 1, FRIDAY 25, 09.00 CET DRAW 4, SATURDAY 26, 09.00 CET A: Team Ahlmarks vs Team Muirhead A: Team Matsumura vs Team AllTele B: Team Matsumura vs Team Baden Regio Halter B: Team Fleming vs Team Jones C: Team Jones vs Team Åland C: Team Muirhead vs Team Panthera

D: Team Flims vs Team Nielsen D: Team ÅF vs Team Homan E: Team Homan vs Team Aarau PwC E: Team Ahlmarks vs Team Flims LIVE F: Team AllTele vs Team Gray F: Team Aarau PwC vs Team SCR Garmisch G: Team Sidorova vs Team Fleming G: Team Baden Regio Halter vs Team Watch City H: Team Gim vs Team ÅF H: Team Bern Eggebier vs Team Sidorova

DRAW 2, FRIDAY 25, 13.30 CET DRAW 5, SATURDAY 26, 13.30 CET A: Team Gray vs Team Baden Regio Halter A: Team Flims vs Team Panthera B: Team Åland vs Team Bern Eggebier B: Team Watch City vs Team Gray C: Team SCR Garmisch vs Team Homan C: Team ÅF vs Team Aarau PwC D: Team Panthera vs Team Ahlmarks D: Team Gim vs Team SCR Garmisch E: Team Jones vs Team Sidorova LIVE E: Team Baden Regio Halter vs Team AllTele LIVE F: Team Watch City vs Team Matsumura F: Team Bern Eggebier vs Team Jones G: Team Aarau PwC vs Team Gim G: Team Nielsen vs Team Ahlmarks H: Team Nielsen vs Team Muirhead H: Team Åland vs Team Fleming

DRAW 3, FRIDAY 25, 18.00 CET DRAW 6, SATURDAY 26, 18.00 CET A: Team Homan vs Team Gim Tie breaks B: Team Panthera vs Team Nielsen C: Team Gray vs Team Matsumura DRAW 7, SUNDAY 27, 09.00 CET D: Team Fleming vs Team Bern Eggebier Quarterfinals LIVE E: Team SCR Garmisch vs Team ÅF LIVE DRAW 8, SUNDAY 27, 13.00 CET F: Team Sidorova vs Team Åland G: Team Muirhead vs Team Flims Semifinals LIVE H: Team AllTele vs Team Watch City DRAW 9, SUNDAY 27, 18.00 CET Final LIVE MEDIA GUIDE

PLAY OFF SCHEDULE

SUNDAY 27 SUNDAY 27 SUNDAY 27 09.00 CET 13.00 CET 18.00 CET

Quarterfinal 5th

Semifinal 3rd

Quarterfinal 5th SLCC Winner Final 2015 Runner up

Quarterfinal 5th

Semifinal 3rd

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HISTORY OF THE EVENT The event was founded in 1990. Recent winners: Year WINNER SECOND THIRD 2014 SWE AllTele (Sigfridsson) CAN Homan 2013 SUI Tirinzoni SUI Jäggi RUS Moiseeva 2012 SWE Ahlmarks (Norberg) SWE Hasselborg SWE AllTele (Sigfridsson) 2011 RUS Privivkova SWE Hasselborg SWE Ahlmarks (Norberg) 2010 SUI Davos iFas (Ott) SWE Hasselborg RUS Privivkova 2009 SWE Lofsdalen (Rudström) RUS Sidorova SWE AllTele (Sigfridsson) 2008 SWE AllTele (Sigfridsson) SUI Flims PurePower (Feltscher) SUI Davos iFas (Ott) 2007 SWE Norberg SWE Hasselborg SUI Davos iFas (Ott) 2006 SCO Martin SWE Norberg RUS Privivkova 2005 SCO Martin NOR Norby SUI Ott

EVENT SPONSORS Partners: Swedish Curling Federation | Djursholms CK | Stocksunds CK | Curling Champions Tour Main sponsors: Volkswagen Täby | Prodoc Sponsors: Exengo | Stjärnägg | Choice Hotels | Menigo | Nordic Fund | Wetrok | Strömberg Westmans | ArenaProfil | Casall | HW Svenskt ReklamScreen | Norrmalmstryckeriet Fraiche Catering | Sandryds | Kopparberg

BROADCAST COVERAGE FROM THE SLCC 2015 The Curling Champions Tour (CCT) and the (WCF) are pleased to announce a new broadcast partnership which aims to increase production and raise the quality of curling games available for TV broadcast and web streaming. The CCT, in association with World Curling TV (WCTV), the WCF’s broadcast arm, will produce seven made-for-TV games from the SLCC 2015. Broadcast coverage will be available via the respective CCT and WCF YouTube Channels: live.curlingchampionstour.org www.youtube.com/WorldCurlingTV

The coverage will also be available on ’s SVT from Saturday 26 September

SLCC Winner 2014, Team Sigfridsson, Sweden MEDIA GUIDE

BROADCAST GAMES

Day Date Local Time # E - TELEVISED GAMES

Fri 25 0900 1 NO tb COVERAGE

1330 2 C1 JONES (CAN) - SIDOROVA (RUS) C3

1800 3 D4 SCHOEPP (GER) - HASSELBORG (SWE) D5

Sat 26 0900 4 A5 OESTLUND (SWE) - FELTSCHER (SUI)A3

1330 5 B1 PAETZ (SUI) - SIGFRIDSSON (SWE) B3

1800 6 NO tb COVERAGE

Sun 27 0900 7 1 QUARTERFINAL GAME

1300 8 1 SEMI-FINAL GAME

1800 9 FINAL MEDIA GUIDE

RULES OF PLAY FOR SLCC 2015

GAMES All games are played over 8 ends. All games must be decided. If a game is tied after 8 ends, one extra end will be played. If the game still is tied, the team without hammer in extra end is the winner, except from the Play-Off games where additional extra ends will be used to decide the winner. There are no time clocks, but teams will be required to adhere to the scheduled game plan. Teams are allowed one 1 minute timeout per game and with an additional 1 minute timeout in extra end.

TEAM LINE UP For your first game an Original Team Line-Up Form must be completed and submitted to the Umpires and thereafter if there are any team changes or a change in the team rotation a Change of Team Line-Up form must be submitted before the start of the game. All forms are available from the Umpires.

PRE-GAME PRACTICE 30 minutes before the game coin-toss is used to decide who starts the practice. 20 minutes before the game the practice starts and is allowed for 5 minutes/team.

HAMMER The hammer is decided by Last Stone Draw. At the conclusion of each team’s pre-game practice, two stones will be delivered to the tee at the home end, by different players the first stone with a clockwise and the second with a counter-clockwise rotation. Sweeping is allowed

The result is measured and will be compared to next opponent’s result. Closest to the button will have the choice of throwing first or second in the first end. If the LSD totals for both teams are the same the individual LSD stones are compared and the best-unequal LSD has the choice of delivering first or second stone in the first end. When both teams have the exact same individual LSD stone distances, a coin toss will be used to determine that choice.

All stones finishing in the house are measured. Stones that do not finish in the house are recorded as 185.4 cm (6 ft. 1 in.) Stones that finish so close to the tee that they cannot be measured are recorded as 0.0 cm.

STONE COLORS Stone colors are decided by the team’s position in the draw. MEDIA GUIDE

PLAY-OFF TEAM RANKING PROCEDURE 1. Teams will be ranked according to their win/loss record. 2. If two teams are tied, they will play a Tie Break game. 3. Where three or more teams are tied, the record of the games between the tied teams shall provide the ranking to decide the two teams in the Tie Break game.

4. For all remaining teams whose ranking cannot be determined by (1) or (2) or (3), ranking is determined using the Draw Shot Challenge (DSC). The DSC is the average distance of the Last Stone Draws (LSD) which were played by a team during the round robin portion of a competition. The team with the lesser DSC receives the higher ranking. If the DSCs are equal, then the team with the best non-equal LSD receives the higher ranking. In case all LSDs are equal, the team ranked higher in the WCF World Rankings is ranked higher.

GAME TIMING Game Timing may be used in the play-off games.

TECHNICAL DEVICES It is allowed for the team to use microphone, transmitter and receiver for one-way recording of the player communication for later use in training purpose.

If the transmitter or receiver frequencies interferes with the organizers TV-production or else, the organizers will forbid the use of the equipment.

WCF RULES APPLY In all other matters the current WCF rules will apply.

In any adjudication the decision of the Chief Umpire is final. MEDIA GUIDE

CONTACT If you have questions about anything please don’t hesitate to ask us. Transportation: Jan Rydheim, [email protected], +46 70 898 11 07 Competition: Michael Jörgensen, [email protected], +46 73 944 40 10 Event: Rolf Wikström, [email protected], +46 70 777 70 75

WCF MEDIA Joanna Kelly - Broadcast Manager World Curling TV - World Curling Federation Email: [email protected] Tel: +372 592 442 35

Web: www.worldcurling.org Facebook www.facebook.com/WorldCurlingFederation YouTube WorldCurlingTV Twitter @worldcurling Google+ www.gplus.to/worldcurlingfederation

ICE AND UMPIRE Head Ice Technician: Andreas Adersteg (SWE) Chief Umpire: Maria Davidson (SWE)