BC Club Challenge
Official BC Club Challenge website.
Dedicated to the grass roots of curling – club curlers. While the curling associations and the cash spiel circuits are providing competitive curlers with lots of opportunities for playdowns and championships, the curlers that support club leagues on a regular basis from September to April didn’t use to have a major venue to compare their skills against other curling clubs. Now they do.
The club curlers who qualify in the six regions’ Club Challenges go on to participate in and play against club curlers from an ever expanding variety of US states and foreign countries – not to forget our very own Yukon Territories – in the annually held Pacific International Cup.
Rules
1. The Curling Club represented by the team must be a paid up member in good standing with CurlBC.
2. Each team is allowed only one player who has played in a Men’s, Women’s or Seniors’ coastal, interior or provincial championship in the current or previous year or participated in a Grand Slam event in the current or previous year.
3. Each team will be allowed a maximum of 2 players between the ages of 15 and 20 as of December 31st of the year prior to the championship.
4. Each club will declare a men’s team and a women’s team of four players that played together in the club during the current season to represent their club as the men’s and women’s club champions. How or when the club declares this team is up to the individual clubs (e.g., last year’s champions, current year’s champions, a special Club Challenge playoff).
5. A maximum of two replacement players is allowed from the regular team and they must be approved by the Event Committee (eg. if you are replacing a second, the replacement player must have played second or lead in a club league).
6. Replacement players can play any position except skip but cannot play any position higher than the position being filled.
7. All games will be eight ends with ties being decided by a full extra end.
8. The BC Club Challenge Provincial Committee has the sole authority to grant exceptions to these rules in extraordinary circumstances.
