The 2011 Safeway Championship, Manitoba men's provincial curling championship was held February 9 to 13 at the Sun Gro Centre in Beausejour. The winning Jeff Stoughton rink represented Manitoba at the 2011 Tim Hortons Brier in London, Ontario where they captured the Brier tankard. As of 2024, this is the last time that a Manitoba provincial champion won a Brier.
Teams Thirty-two teams qualify for the men's provincial championship in Manitoba. Berths 1–14 represent the rural zones, berths 15–21 represent the Winnipeg zones. There are two separate bonspiels played earlier in the year representing the north and south called the Northern and Southern Bonspiels; these represent berths 22 and 23. Berth 24 is the winner of the Brandon Bonspiel played around the same time of fall as the Northern and Southern floating bonspiels. Number 25 is the prior Manitoba Champion assuming the team meets the requirements to represent themselves. The same goes for berths 26 and 27, which are the Manitoba Curling Tour champion and top Manitoba team on the Canadian Team Ranking System respectively, number 27 must be declared by November 1, 2010. Numbers 28–32 are qualifiers from the MCA Bonspiel, also subject to subset rules and requirements.
Once all 32 teams have been qualified, they will be seeded respectively and slotted into the draw format of 1 vs 32, 2 vs 31, and so on. Skip Third Second Lead Club(s) BerthNumber Seed NotesCarman CC124Zone 1 winnerBeausejour CC216Zone 2 winnerEast St. Paul CC326Zone 3 winnerRosser CC419Zone 4 winnerPortage CC522Zone 5 winnerWawanesa CC631Zone 6 winnerBaldur CC720Zone 7 winnerBrandon CC88Zone 8 winnerVirden CC921Zone 9 winnerHamiota CC1027Zone 10 winnerDauphin CC1130Zone 11 winnerSwan River CC1215Zone 12 winnerWillow Park CC1332Zone 13 winnerBurntwood CC1425Zone 14 winner (Fourth)Pembina CC154Zone 15 winner (Fourth)Fort Garry CC165Zone 16 winnerAssiniboineMemorial CC176Zone 17 winnerDeer Lodge CC189Zone 18 winnerAssiniboineMemorial CC1917Zone 19 winnerThistle CC2012Zone 20 winnerGranite CC2113Zone 21 winnerCharleswood CC222Southern Berth Bonspiel winnerDauphin CC2328Northern Berth Bonspiel winner Deer Lodge CC247Brandon Men's Berth Bonspiel winnerWest Kildonan CC2510Prior Manitoba ChampionWill be deferred to the MCA BonspielMCA Bonspiel Asham Event qualifierCharleswood CC263Manitoba Curling Tour winner. Jan 7–9AssiniboineMemorial CC271Manitoba's top team from the CanadianTeam Ranking SystemPetersfield CC2814MCA Bonspiel Asham Event qualifierFort Rouge CC2929MCA Bonspiel Safeway-Lucerne Event qualifierLa Salle CC3018MCA Bonspiel Safeway-Lucerne Event qualifierGimli CC3123MCA Bonspiel Winnipeg Free Press Event qualifierMorris CC3211MCA Bonspiel Winnipeg Free Press Event qualifier
Knockout Brackets 32 team double knockout with playoff round Four teams qualify each from A Event and B Event
A Event
B Event
Knockout Results All draw times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00).
Draw 1 Wednesday, February 9, 8:30 am
Draw 2 Wednesday, February 9, 12:15 pm
Draw 3 Wednesday, February 9, 4:00 pm
Draw 4 Wednesday, February 9, 8:15 pm
Draw 5 Thursday, February 10, 8:30 am
Draw 6 Thursday, February 10, 12:15 pm
Draw 7 Thursday, February 10, 4:00 pm
Draw 8 Thursday, February 10, 7:45 pm
Draw 9 Friday, February 11, 8:30 am
Draw 10 Friday, February 11, 12:15 pm
Draw 11 Friday, February 11, 4:00 pm
Playoff Brackets 8 team double knockout Four teams qualify into Championship Round
A event
B event
Playoff Results Draw 12 Friday, February 11, 7:45 pm
Draw 13 Saturday, February 12, 8:30 am
Draw 14 Saturday, February 12, 1:30 pm
Championship Round
1 vs. 2 Saturday, February 12, 6:30 pm
3 vs. 4 Saturday, February 12, 6:30 pm
Semifinal Sunday, February 13, 9:00 am
Final Sunday, February 13, 1:30 pm
Awards All-Star Team Skip – Terry McNamee, Team McNamee Third – Vic Peters, Team Peters Second – Reid Carruthers, Team Stoughton Lead – Steve Gould, Team Stoughton
External links
Beausejour Curling Club Safeway Championship site Final on YouTube
References