2026 Players' Championship (January)

2026 Crown Royal
Players' Championship
2026 Crown Royal ; Players' Championship
Host city	Steinbach, Manitoba
Arena	Southeast Event Centre
Dates	January 6–11
Men's winner	Team Whyte
Curling club	The Peak (Stirling), Stirling
Skip	Ross Whyte
Third	Robin Brydone
Second	Craig Waddell
Lead	Euan Kyle
Coach	Alistair Scott
Finalist	Kyle Waddell
Women's winner	Team Tirinzoni
Curling club	CC Aarau, Aarau
Skip	Silvana Tirinzoni
Fourth	Alina Pätz
Second	Carole Howald
Lead	Selina Witschonke
Coach	Pierre Charette
Finalist	Kerri Einarson
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Host citySteinbach, Manitoba

ArenaSoutheast Event Centre

DatesJanuary 6–11

Men's winner Team Whyte

The 2026 Crown Royal Players' Championship was held from January 6 to 11 at the Southeast Event Centre in Steinbach, Manitoba.^[1] It was the fifth and final Grand Slam event of the 2025–26 curling season.

In a change of timing from previous seasons, the Players' Championship was moved from April to January to close out the Grand Slam season ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics.^[2] The Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto, which usually hosts the event, will instead host the inaugural season of the Rock League April 6–12.^[3]

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Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate	Locale
Daniel Casper	Luc Violette	Ben Richardson	Aidan Oldenburg	Rich Ruohonen	Chaska, Minnesota
Matt Dunstone	Colton Lott	E. J. Harnden	Ryan Harnden		Winnipeg, Manitoba
Niklas Edin	Oskar Eriksson	Rasmus Wranå	Christoffer Sundgren		Karlstad, Sweden
Brad Jacobs	Marc Kennedy	Brett Gallant	Ben Hebert		Calgary, Alberta
Mike McEwen	Colton Flasch	B. J. Neufeld^[a]	Dan Marsh		Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Bruce Mouat	Grant Hardie	Bobby Lammie	Hammy McMillan Jr.		Edinburgh, Scotland
Joël Retornaz	Amos Mosaner	Sebastiano Arman	Mattia Giovanella		Trentino, Italy
Benoît Schwarz-van Berkel (Fourth)	Yannick Schwaller (Skip)	Sven Michel	Pablo Lachat-Couchepin		Geneva, Switzerland
John Shuster	Chris Plys	Colin Hufman	Matt Hamilton		Duluth, Minnesota
Kyle Waddell	Mark Watt	Angus Bryce	Blair Haswell		Hamilton, Scotland
Ross Whyte	Robin Brydone	Craig Waddell^[b]	Euan Kyle		Stirling, Scotland
Xu Xiaoming	Fei Xueqing	Li Zhichao	Xu Jingtao	Wang Zhenhao	Beijing, China

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Joël Retornaz 🔨	2	0	0	2	1	0	2	0	0	7
Kyle Waddell	0	2	2	0	0	1	0	2	1	8

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Daniel Casper	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	X	3
Xu Xiaoming 🔨	3	0	1	0	2	1	1	X	8

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Brad Jacobs	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	X	3
Ross Whyte 🔨	2	0	0	2	0	2	0	X	6

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Yannick Schwaller	0	0	4	0	3	0	3	X	10
Niklas Edin 🔨	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	X	5

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Matt Dunstone	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	1	6
Mike McEwen 🔨	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	5

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Bruce Mouat 🔨	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	X	5
John Shuster	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	1

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Bruce Mouat	0	2	0	2	1	0	3	X	8
Niklas Edin 🔨	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	X	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Ross Whyte	0	0	2	1	0	2	1	X	6
Mike McEwen 🔨	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	X	3

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
John Shuster	0	0	2	0	2	0	2	1	7
Xu Xiaoming 🔨	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Matt Dunstone 🔨	1	0	1	0	2	0	X	X	4
Kyle Waddell	0	3	0	5	0	1	X	X	9

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Bruce Mouat	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	2	1	7
Daniel Casper 🔨	1	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	6

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Joël Retornaz 🔨	1	1	0	2	0	1	1	X	6
Mike McEwen	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	X	2

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Yannick Schwaller 🔨	1	0	2	0	1	0	3	0	0	7
Xu Xiaoming	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	2	1	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Daniel Casper 🔨	2	0	2	0	0	2	0	X	6
Niklas Edin	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	X	3

Key
	Teams to Playoffs
	Teams to Tiebreaker

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kyle Waddell 🔨	4	0	2	0	3	X	X	X	9
Mike McEwen	0	1	0	1	0	X	X	X	2

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Bruce Mouat 🔨	2	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	5
Xu Xiaoming	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	2	6

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Matt Dunstone 🔨	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	2	1	7
Brad Jacobs	1	0	1	1	1	0	2	0	0	6

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Yannick Schwaller 🔨	0	1	4	0	3	0	X	X	8
John Shuster	1	0	0	2	0	1	X	X	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Ross Whyte 🔨	1	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	6
Kyle Waddell	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	2	1	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Brad Jacobs 🔨	2	0	2	0	2	0	0	1	7
Mike McEwen	0	2	0	2	0	1	1	0	6

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
John Shuster 🔨	1	0	3	0	2	0	2	X	8
Bruce Mouat	0	1	0	4	0	1	0	X	6

Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Final

			1	Kyle Waddell	5
4	Xu Xiaoming	7	4	Xu Xiaoming	4
5	Joël Retornaz	5				1	Kyle Waddell	3
						3	Ross Whyte	6
			2	Yannick Schwaller	4
3	Ross Whyte	6	3	Ross Whyte	5
6	John Shuster	4

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kyle Waddell 🔨	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	X	3
Ross Whyte	1	0	2	1	0	2	0	X	6

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate	Locale
Kerri Einarson	Val Sweeting	Shannon Birchard	Karlee Burgess	Krysten Karwacki	Gimli, Manitoba
Satsuki Fujisawa	Chinami Yoshida	Yumi Suzuki	Yurika Yoshida		Kitami, Japan
Gim Eun-ji	Kim Min-ji	Kim Su-ji	Seol Ye-eun	Seol Ye-ji	Uijeongbu, South Korea
Anna Hasselborg	Sara McManus	Agnes Knochenhauer	Sofia Scharback	Johanna Heldin	Sundbyberg, Sweden
Rachel Homan	Tracy Fleury	Emma Miskew	Sarah Wilkes		Ottawa, Ontario
Ikue Kitazawa	Seina Nakajima	Minori Suzuki	Hasumi Ishigooka		Nagano, Japan
Tabitha Peterson	Cory Thiesse	Tara Peterson	Taylor Anderson-Heide	Aileen Geving	Chaska, Minnesota
Xenia Schwaller	Selina Gafner	Fabienne Rieder	Selina Rychiger		Zurich, Switzerland
Miku Nihira^[c]	Momoha Tabata	Sae Yamamoto	Mikoto Nakajima		Sapporo, Japan
Alina Pätz (Fourth)	Silvana Tirinzoni (Skip)	Carole Howald	Selina Witschonke		Aarau, Switzerland
Isabella Wranå	Almida de Val	Maria Larsson	Linda Stenlund		Sundbyberg, Sweden
Sayaka Yoshimura	Kaho Onodera	Yuna Kotani	Anna Ohmiya	Mina Kobayashi	Sapporo, Japan

Women

Teams

Round robin standings

Round robin results

Draw 1

Draw 2

Draw 3

Draw 4

Draw 5

Draw 6

Draw 7

Draw 8

Draw 9

Draw 10

Draw 11

Draw 12

Draw 13

Draw 14

Draw 15

Tiebreaker

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final