ST JOHN’S, NF – The 2025 Scotties Tournament of Hearts curling championships starts this weekend at the Fort William Gardens in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Newfoundland and Labrador will be represented by Skip Brooke Godsland, with Erin Porter, Sarah McNeil Lamswood, Camille Burt, Kate Paterson with coach Cory Schuh of St. John’s. They will be playing on Pool B teams from Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, North West Territories and Yukon.
Teams will play a complete eight-game round robin within their pools. From there, the top three teams in each pool advance to the playoffs.
There will be no tiebreakers; if teams are tied for a playoff spot, head-to-head results will be the first tiebreaker, and if that doesn’t resolve the tie, Last-Shot Draw rankings will rank the teams — the same formula used at World Championship events and the Winter Olympics.
The playoff format will see the first-place team from Pool A meeting second place from Pool B, and vice versa, in the first round of the playoffs Friday, Feb. 21, at 1 p.m., with the winners going directly to the Page playoff 1-2 game, while the losers meet the third-place finishers in the pools Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. The winners of those games will advance to the Page playoff 3-4 game.
The standard Page playoffs commence with the winner of the Page 1v2 game on Saturday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m., advancing directly to the final, and the loser playing the winner of the Page 3v4 game (scheduled for 1 p.m. on Feb. 22) in the semifinal.
The semifinal (Sunday, Feb. 23, at 1 p.m.) winner takes on the winner of the Page 1v2 game in the final at 7 p.m. on Sunday. The winner will represent Canada at the 2025 LGT World Women’s Curling Championship March 15-23 in Uijeongbu, South Korea.
