News Releases and Current Results

<June 10, 2010>

Dates of two Manitoba Curling Tour events have been confirmed and the accompanying schedule of events has been updated.

The Atkins Curling Supplies Charity Classic women’s event at the Charleswood Curling Club will take place again this year on the Thanksgiving weekend, October 8-11, 2010.

The White’s Drug Store Classic men’s event in Swan River will be held a week later this year than in previous years.  The Swan River bonspiel will be played November 11-14, 2010.

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<May 19, 2010>

MCT 2010-11 Tentative Schedule

Fifteen of 19 bonspiel dates have been confirmed by organizers of events which will be a part of the 2010-2011 Manitoba Curling Tour schedule. The fall schedule begins with Warren's Monsanto Sliding in Summer bonspiel, a new event on the tour this year which creates the Tour's earliest ever fall start.

Discussions are underway with two other new events which could yet be added.

Three bonspiels have been included in the schedule based on last year's dates. We await confirmation of intentions from those events.

The date for the Atkins Charity Classsic, which took place on the Thanskgiving weekend last year, is under review as the committee attempts to avoid conflicts with other major events in Western Canada.

This tentative listing will be updated as further information is confirmed.

2010-2011 Manitoba Curling Tour Calendar (TENTATIVE)

NON TOUR South Berth NOVEMBER 12-15 PORTAGE
NON TOUR North Berth NOVEMBER 26-29 Flin Flon
NON TOUR Scotties Berth NOVEMBER 12-15 BRANDON
NON TOUR Brandon men’s Berth DECEMBER TBD
NON-TOUR SCOTTIES ZONES DECEMBER 9-12
NON-TOUR SAFEWAY ZONES DECEMBER 14-19 (WPG) DECEMBER 17-19 (Rural) (Also Mens SLAM EVENT IN BC)

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<May 7, 2010>

Warren's MONSANTO SLIDING IN SUMMER 'SPIEL Taking Entries

The fall season of the 2010-2011 Manitoba Curling Tour season will have its earliest ever start when Warren joins the Tour with its Monsanto Sliding in Summer 'Spiel, August 23-28.

The third annual MONSANTO Sliding in Summer Bonspiel once again takes place at Warren's Sunova Arena with Greg Ewasko signed on to ensure championship ice conditions for the competitors in the bonspiel's 16-team MCT competitive division. There is also a 32-team recreational division.

The Bonspiel's popular features, a Thursday-Sunday Beer Garden and Live Entertainment Friday & Saturday nights, will continue this year.

Entry fee for the MCT Competitive Division is $520. (The Recreational Division entry fee is $160.) Six teams will qualify for the championship round in the competitive division. There will be cash prizes in both divisions.

For information contact any of the co-chairs:
Cal Surgenor (Cal@warrencurlingclub.org)
Bryan Preston (Bryan@warrencurlingclub.org)
Tyson Langrell (Tyson@warrrencurlingclub.org).

Entry cheques should be made payable to Warren Summer Spiel and can be mailed to Tyson Langrell, Box 489, Warren, MB  R0C 3E0

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE COMING: A tentative tour schedule will be published here  at the MCT website as soon as possible. Bonspiel organizers are reminded to contact the new tour coordinator Resby Coutts (204.799.2250) by email at resby@mts.net to confirm dates.

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<May 2, 2010>

The Manitoba Curling Tour has announced the appointment of Resby Coutts to succeed the retiring Bob Picken as tour Co-ordinator.  The change was confirmed at an MCT board of directors' meeting, and is effective as of May 1st, 2010.

Coutts is a prominent curling journalist, who formerly served as Media Relations Officer and Events Co-ordinator for the Manitoba Curling Association.  He was the editor and publisher for many years of The Curling News in Manitoba, and shifted it to an internet website (thecurler.com), which offers excellent curling coverage and feature information on the sport at all levels.

Coutts will add the MCT Co-ordinator's duties to his role as co-chair of the National Mixed Curling Championship (Nov.13-20th) in Morris this coming season.  He also will be nominated as a candidate for a Curl Manitoba director's position at the association's AGM in June.

Picken retires after 16 years in the Co-ordinator's position.  He was appointed in 1994 by then-MCT-president Cathy Gauthier, and has seen the tour's operation expand to curling locales throughout Manitoba and into Northwestern Ontario, and at one point to Grand Forks, North Dakota.

MCT president Andy Stewart said, "Coutts will have a tough act to follow due to Picken's experience, contacts, and curling background.  But the tour is fortunate to have somebody like Resby, who has the same type of know-how and commitment, and is ready to take over."

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