2012 Karuizawa International Curling Championship

The 2012 Karuizawa International Curling Championship was held from January 25 to 29 at the SCAP Karuizawa Arena in Karuizawa, Japan. The bonspiel featured eight teams from each gender (five foreign teams and three Japanese teams) that played in a round-robin format. The top four teams of each gender played in a single-elimination playoff round to determine the winners.

Men

Teams The teams are listed as follows: Regions Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Foreign Berths Colin Thomas Cory Schuh Chris Ford Spencer Wicks Stephen Ryan Thomas Løvold Steffen Walstad Thomas Due Sander Rølvaag Kenneth Andersen Jamie Boutin Robert Krüger Andreas Hofmann Martin Schulz-Dobrick Konstantin Kampf Liu Rui Xu Xiaoming Ba Dexin Zang Jialiang Chen Lu'an Kim Chang-min Kim Min-chan Seong Seh-yeon Seo Young-sun Oh Eun-su Japanese Berths National Team Nobuaki Mutoh Takahiro Yoshida Shinya Iwamoto Tatsuya Hayashi Toshiya Murata Selection Team Yusuke Morozumi Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi Tetsuro Shimizu Kosuke Morozumi Nagano Selection Team Yuta Matsumara Yuki Sakamoto Yoshiro Shimizu Yuki Tsuchiya

Round-robin standings Final round-robin standings KeyTeams to PlayoffsTeams to Tiebreaker Region Skip W L Kim Chang-min 6 1 Colin Thomas 5 2 Liu Rui 5 2 Selection Yusuke Morozumi 3 4 Nagano Selection Yuta Matsumara 3 4 Jamie Boutin 2 5 Thomas Løvold 2 5 Nobuaki Mutoh 2 5

Round-robin results All draw times listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+9).

Draw 1 Wednesday, January 25, 13:00

Draw 2 Wednesday, January 25, 16:15

Draw 3 Wednesday, January 25, 19:30

Draw 4 Thursday, January 26, 9:00

Draw 5 Thursday, January 26, 12:15

Draw 6 Thursday, January 26, 15:30

Draw 7 Thursday, January 26, 18:45

Draw 8 Friday, January 27, 9:00

Draw 9 Friday, January 27, 12:15

Draw 10 Friday, January 27, 15:30

Draw 11 Friday, January 27, 18:45

Draw 12 Saturday, January 28, 8:00

Draw 13 Saturday, January 28, 11:15

Draw 14 Saturday, January 28, 14:30

Tiebreaker Saturday, January 28, 17:30

Playoffs

Semifinals Sunday, January 29, 9:00

Bronze-medal game Sunday, January 29, 13:00

Gold Medal Final Sunday, January 29, 13:00

Women

Teams The teams are listed as follows: Regions Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Foreign Berths Laura Crocker Sarah Wilkes Jennifer Gates Pam Feldkamp Cheryl Kreviazuk Wang Bingyu Sun Yue Yue Qingshuang Zhou Yan Liu Jinli Madeleine Dupont Denise Dupont Christine Svensen Lina Knudsen Silvana Tirinzoni Irene Schori Esther Neuenschwander Sandra Gantenbein Kim Ji-sun Lee Seul-bee Gim Un-chi Lee Hyun-Jang Japanese Berths National Team Satsuki Fujisawa Miyo Ichikawa Emi Shimizu Miyuki Satoh Chiaki Matsumura Selection Team Mayo Yamaura (fourth) Shinobu Aota (skip) Anna Ohmiya Kotomi Ishizaki Nagano Selection Team Kai Tsuchiya Kie Igarashi Mina Uchibori Erika Otani Misaki Kobayashi

Round-robin standings Final round-robin standings KeyTeams to PlayoffsTeams to Tiebreakers Region Skip W L Laura Crocker 5 2 Kim Ji-sun 5 2 Wang Bingyu 4 3 Selection Shinobu Aota 4 3 Silvana Tirinzoni 4 3 Nagano Selection Kai Tsuchiya 3 4 Madeleine Dupont 2 5 Satsuki Fujisawa 1 6