Calder Cup 2009 wrap-up

Sixteen teams competed this year in Norfolk. Eight of them are MCT teams. Five of the Tour teams played in a final with just the first event not having a Tour team. The finals of the third and fourth events were contested by Tour teams.

Team George Austin breaks out on top with a fourth event win. Team Steiert follows closely in second with a runner-up finish in the fourth event. Team Brooks in third place by only 10 points after a win in the third event (and according to Tim, the coolest trophy ever!). Team Brown and team Joseph Smith finish runner-up in third and second events respectively.

Seven of the eight teams gained points in the event. The tweaking of the points structure seems to be working so far as the pack is pretty tightly bunched.

Best of luck to all the Tour teams. Next event is the Broomstones Men's.

Please remember to support our sponsors who have contributed to the prize pool this year (total prize pool $3950). Kenny Thompson of Goldline and Gary Suslavich of Broomsupcurling. Links are on the top right of the page.

Jeff

Calder Cup at Norfolk

With the cancellation of the Petersham spiel, the Calder is the first stop on the tour. A full field of 16 teams is entered and the competition looks really good. Here is the list of skips:
Walter Baggett - Ardsley
Stuart Graves - Broomstones
Herb Kupchik - Broomstones
Davis V Yetman - Canadian club of Boston
Russ Lemcke - Cape Cod
Paul Mort - Cape Cod
Jeff Lesuk - New York Caledonian
George Austin - New York Caledonian
Jon Barbagallo - Norfolk
Joseph Smith - Nutmeg
Terry Smith - Nutmeg
Tony Steiert - Philadelphia
Derek Tomlinson - Philadelphia
John DeJong - Plainfield
Tim Brooks - Schenectady
Charles Brown - Schenectady

Some former winners in the field and some newer teams that are looking to prove their mettle. The unofficial count is that there will be 7 Tour teams.

Jeff

MCT Sponsors

The MCT has sponsors this year which is adding money to the prize pool. Please support the following sponsors.

Brooms Up Curling Supplies
www.broomsupcurling.com info@broomsupcurling.com (Gary Suslavich)

T-Line Curling (Goldline Mobile USA)
www.goldline.ca Kenny@goldline (Kenny Thomson)

Gordon-Emmett results

Based on reporting from all the teams involved, here are the final results. Since there were only 12 teams at this event, per the rules, the fourth (D) event does not count as a final, so no bonus points are awarded for the D event.

Fitzgerald - 90 points
2 C event wins for 30 points each = 60
1 C event loss for 30 points
Brown - 185 points
1 B event win - 30 points
1 C event win - 30 points
C finals win - 125 points
Brooks - 60 points
1 B event win - 30 points
B finals loss - 30 points
Tyner - 155 points
1 A event win - 125 points
D finals win - 30 points

Top three teams are Austin, Tyner, Brooks. Prize payouts from the pool of $3450 are $1897.50, $966 and $586.50 respectively.

Thanks to everyone for participating and hopefully this will continue for many more years with a bigger purse and more teams.

Jeff

Gordon-Emmett preliminary results

Still confirming the results from the GE. From what I know, Team Austin has won the first GNCC Men's Curling Tour. Teams Brooks and Tyner will be second and third. Still confirming the point totals from the event.

More to come when the point totals are completed.

Jeff

Gordon-Emmett preview

Teams Brooks, Brown, Fitzgerald and Tyner will all be playing in the GE. George Austin will be playing but not with his MCT team. Team Austin is the current leader at 1000 points. Both Brooks and Tyner have a chance to take over the top spot with a first event win. Fitzgerald and Brown have a chance to move into the money with a good showing.

Best of luck to all.

I will not be in attendance, Pat Fitzgerald will be collecting results. Unfortunately, the memorial service for Elisabeth Childs is also this Saturday and I will be attending that.

George Austin has the trophy that will be presented to the winning team. Prize money will be distributed by mail following the event and the final tally.

Jeff

PCC Stone and Granite State

For those attending either of these events, Jason Valetutto will be collecting results at the Stone and Charlie Brown will be collecting results at the Granite State.

Make sure all your wins are noted. I will be confirming with all attending teams after the events.

Thanks to Jason and Charlie for the help.

Jeff

Update after the McKay-Douglas

With four events done and three to go, there are still plenty of points to earn. Remember best three point totals count. The top five teams all have points from just two events.

Top five are Austin (550), Brooks (500), Tyner (375), Valetutto (350) and Fitzgerald (225).

Playing in the PCC Stone are Austin, Valetutto, Baggett and Smith. Playing in the Granite State are Tyner and Brown.

If anyone else is playing in one of these events, let me know.

Jeff

McKay-Douglas final results

Just a quick update from the McKay-Douglas.

Team Austin and Team Fitzgerald both earned 200 points. Team Steiert earned 100 points. Team Baggett earned 75 points.

Teams Austin, Fitzgerald and Baggett were all in event finals and all took a loss.

Update standings will be published to the GNCC website this week. Team Austin has sneaked back into the lead at this point.

Jeff

McKay-Douglas Bonspiel update

Due to a personal problem, Team Smith has lost two players and are not eligible for points at the bonspiel.

Team Austin won their first game, Team Steiert lost their first, Team Baggett also lost and Team Fitzgerald won the first game.

Jeff

McKay-Douglas Bonspiel updates

I will try to post updates here as the event progresses. The draw is available on the Ardsley website. Don't know if they will be updating it during the weekend. They do have wireless access at the club so will try and convince the organizers to keep it up to date.

Jeff

McKay-Douglas Bonspiel

There are five MCT teams entered in the McKay-Douglas. Smith, Austin, Steiert, Baggett and Fitzgerald will all be competing.

Best of luck to all the teams.

Jeff

McKay-Douglas Bonspiel

There are 26 teams entered in this GNCC MCT event. I think they have 6 events so with that number of teams all events are eligible for the winner/runner-up points in the finals.

I still have not heard from some teams on their remaining schedule. Please let me know what events you will be playing in so I can track that.

Jeff

McKay-Douglas Bonspiel

There are still spots available in this event. There is an online entry form at the Ardsley website. www.ardsleycurling.org Teams that are entered are Baggett, Austin and Fitzpatrick I think. If anyone else is entered please let me know.

Jeff

Update from the Club Playdowns and Governor's Bowl

A quick update from this past weekend. The latest point standings have been posted on the GNCC website.

A change in the leaderboard as both Tim Brooks and Nick Tyner have jumped into the first two spots. George Austin slipped to third as he went 0-3 in Albany. The top points at the Club Playdowns were earned by the Tyner team. Nick was absent for the weekend but three other team members where there so the points are valid. The Tyner team made the playoffs to earn extra points.

Remember, only the best three point totals count for each team so there are plenty of chances for the standings to change. Next up is the McKay-Douglas at Ardsley. Hope to see all the teams there.

Jeff

Governors Bowl and Club Playdowns

There will be three MCT teams at the Governor's Bowl in Albany, the George Austin team, the Walter Baggett team and the Pat Fitzgerald team.

There will be four MCT teams at the Club national playdowns at Broomstones - Tyner, Brown, Valetutto and Brooks.

Best of luck to all the teams.

Jeff