2019 WCT Uiseong International Curling Cup

The 2019 WCT Uiseong International Curling Cup was held from September 29 to October 3 in Uiseong-eup, Uiseong County, South Korea. The total purse for the event was ₩ 55,000,000 on both the men's and women's sides.^[1][2] The event had a mix of teams from Canada, Italy, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, United States, and the host South Korea.

2019 WCT Uiseong International Curling Cup
Host city	Uiseong, South Korea
Arena	Uiseong Curling Club
Dates	September 29 – October 3
Men's winner	Team McEwen
Curling club	West St. Paul CC, West St. Paul
Skip	Mike McEwen
Third	Reid Carruthers
Second	Derek Samagalski
Lead	Colin Hodgson
Finalist	John Shuster
Women's winner	Team Roth
Curling club	St. Paul CC, Saint Paul
Skip	Tabitha Peterson
Third	Becca Hamilton
Second	Tara Peterson
Lead	Nina Roth
Finalist	Kim Kyeong-ae

In the Men's event, Canada's Mike McEwen won their first event of the season by defeating Olympic gold medalist John Shuster from the United States 7–4 in the final. Canada's Scott McDonald won the bronze medal with a 10–4 victory over South Korea's Kim Soo-hyuk.^[3]

In the Women's event, USA's Nina Roth with Tabitha Peterson throwing skip rocks defeated Olympic silver medalists Kim Kyeong-ae who took over skipping duties for Kim Eun-jung 5–4 in an extra end.^[4] Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni took the bronze medal by defeating South Korea's Kim Min-ji 6–4.^[5]

Men

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:^[6]

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Locale
Matt Dunstone	Braeden Moskowy	Catlin Schneider	Dustin Kidby	Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Glenn Howard	Scott Howard	David Mathers	Tim March	Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada
Kim Chang-min	Lee Ki-jeong	Kim Hak-gyun	Lee Ki-bok	Uiseong, South Korea
Kim Soo-hyuk	Lee Jeong-jae	Jeong Byeong-jin	Hwang Hyeon-jun	Seoul, South Korea
Scott McDonald	Jonathan Beuk	Wesley Forget	Scott Chadwick	Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Mike McEwen	Reid Carruthers	Derek Samagalski	Colin Hodgson	West St. Paul, Manitoba, Canada
Park Jong-duk	Nam Yoon-ho	Yoo Min-hyeon	Kim Jeong-min	Gangwon, South Korea
Joël Retornaz	Amos Mosaner	Sebastiano Arman	Simone Gonin	Pinerolo, Italy
John Shuster	Chris Plys	Matt Hamilton	John Landsteiner	Duluth, Minnesota
Thomas Ulsrud	Steffen Walstad	Markus Høiberg	Magnus Vågberg	Oppdal, Norway

Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings^[7]

Key
	Teams to Playoffs

Pool A W L Scott McDonald 3 1 Kim Soo-hyuk 2 2 Matt Dunstone 2 2 Park Jong-duk 2 2 Thomas Ulsrud 1 3

Pool B W L Mike McEwen 4 0 John Shuster 3 1 Glenn Howard 2 2 Joël Retornaz 1 3 Kim Chang-min 0 4

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in Korean Standard Time (UTC+09:00).^[8]

Draw 1

Sunday, September 29, 7:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Glenn Howard	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	3
John Shuster	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	5

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Joël Retornaz	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	5
Kim Chang-min	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	4

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Matt Dunstone	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	4
Scott McDonald	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	5

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kim Soo-hyuk	0	1	2	0	0	2	0	2	7
Park Jong-duk	2	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	6

Draw 3

Monday, September 30, 3:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Scott McDonald	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	X	3
Park Jong-duk	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	X	1

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Matt Dunstone	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	1	6
Thomas Ulsrud	1	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	5

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
John Shuster	1	0	0	1	2	0	2	2	8
Kim Chang-min	0	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	4

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Glenn Howard	0	0	0	0	1	0	X	X	1
Mike McEwen	0	1	2	2	0	3	X	X	8

Draw 5

Tuesday, October 1, 7:00 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Mike McEwen	1	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	6
Joël Retornaz	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	5

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Glenn Howard	3	0	1	0	0	0	3	X	7
Kim Chang-min	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	X	4

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Thomas Ulsrud	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	3
Kim Soo-hyuk	0	1	0	1	1	2	0	1	6

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Matt Dunstone	1	1	0	3	0	2	0	1	0	8
Park Jong-duk	0	0	3	0	2	0	3	0	1	9

Draw 7

Tuesday, October 1, 3:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
John Shuster	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	2
Mike McEwen	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	X	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Matt Dunstone	3	3	0	0	3	0	X	X	9
Kim Soo-hyuk	0	0	1	1	0	2	X	X	4

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Thomas Ulsrud	0	0	2	0	4	0	1	0	7
Scott McDonald	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	5

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Glenn Howard	3	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	1	8
Joël Retornaz	0	2	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	7

Draw 9

Wednesday, October 2, 7:00 am

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Mike McEwen	2	0	3	0	1	3	X	X	9
Kim Chang-min	0	0	0	3	0	0	X	X	3

Draw 10

Wednesday, October 2, 11:00 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Thomas Ulsrud	0	0	1	0	X	X	X	X	1
Park Jong-duk	3	2	0	2	X	X	X	X	7

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Scott McDonald	0	1	0	0	2	0	2	X	5
Kim Soo-hyuk	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	X	3

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
John Shuster	0	0	2	0	0	0	4	X	6
Joël Retornaz	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	X	1

Playoffs

Source:^[9]

	Semifinals					Final
	B1	Mike McEwen	10
	A2	Kim Soo-hyuk	3
						B1	Mike McEwen	7
						B2	John Shuster	4
	A1	Scott McDonald	3
	B2	John Shuster	7

	Bronze medal game
	A2	Kim Soo-hyuk	4
	A1	Scott McDonald	10

Semifinals

Wednesday, October 2, 7:00 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Mike McEwen	1	0	5	0	4	0	X	X	10
Kim Soo-hyuk	0	0	0	2	0	1	X	X	3

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Scott McDonald	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	X	3
John Shuster	1	2	2	0	1	0	1	X	7

Bronze medal game

Thursday, October 3, 1:00 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kim Soo-hyuk	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	X	4
Scott McDonald	2	0	3	0	2	0	3	X	10

Final

Thursday, October 3, 5:00 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Mike McEwen	2	0	0	2	0	1	2	X	7
John Shuster	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	X	4

Women

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:^[10]

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Locale
Theresa Cannon	Karen Klein	Vanessa Foster	Raunora Westcott	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Gim Un-chi	Um Min-ji	Kim Su-ji	Seol Ye-eun	Gyeonggido, South Korea
Kim Kyeong-ae[a]	Kim Cho-hi[a]	Kim Seon-yeong	Kim Yeong-mi	Uiseong, South Korea
Kim Min-ji	Ha Seung-youn	Kim Hye-rin	Kim Su-jin	Chuncheon, South Korea
Oh Eun-jin	Chung Jae-yi	Kim Ji-hyeon	Shin Ga-yeong	Jeonbuk, South Korea
Tabitha Peterson	Becca Hamilton	Tara Peterson	Nina Roth	Saint Paul, Minnesota
Anna Sidorova	Yulia Portunova	Olga Kotelnikova	Julia Guzieva	Moscow, Russia
Jamie Sinclair	Cory Christensen	Vicky Persinger	Taylor Anderson	Chaska, Minnesota
Briar Hürlimann (Fourth)	Elena Stern (Skip)	Lisa Gisler	Céline Koller	Brig-Glis, Switzerland
Alina Pätz (Fourth)	Silvana Tirinzoni (Skip)	Esther Neuenschwander	Melanie Barbezat	Aarau, Switzerland

Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings^[11]

Key
	Teams to Playoffs

Pool A W L Silvana Tirinzoni 4 0 Kim Min-ji 2 2 Jamie Sinclair 2 2 Gim Un-chi 1 3 Anna Sidorova 1 3

Pool B W L Kim Kyeong-ae 4 0 Team Roth 3 1 Elena Stern 2 2 Theresa Cannon 1 3 Oh Eun-jin 0 4

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in Korean Standard Time (UTC+09:00).^[12]

Draw 2

Monday, September 30, 11:00 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Silvana Tirinzoni	0	0	1	1	1	0	2	0	5
Kim Min-ji	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Gim Un-chi	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	4
Jamie Sinclair	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	5

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Elena Stern	0	1	0	0	0	2	2	1	6
Theresa Cannon	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	3

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kim Kyeong-ae	0	2	0	0	1	2	2	X	7
Oh Eun-jin	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	1

Draw 4

Monday, September 30, 7:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Theresa Cannon	2	0	1	2	0	2	0	1	8
Oh Eun-jin	0	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	5

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Elena Stern	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	1	5
Team Roth	3	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	7

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kim Min-ji	2	0	1	0	2	0	3	X	8
Jamie Sinclair	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	X	4

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Silvana Tirinzoni	0	1	0	3	0	0	2	0	1	7
Anna Sidorova	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	6

Draw 6

Tuesday, October 1, 11:00 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Anna Sidorova	1	0	2	0	1	0	2	X	6
Gim Un-chi	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	X	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Silvana Tirinzoni	0	3	0	0	0	3	0	2	8
Jamie Sinclair	2	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	5

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Team Roth	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	2	6
Kim Kyeong-ae	0	2	0	3	0	0	2	0	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Elena Stern	3	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	7
Oh Eun-jin	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	1	5

Draw 8

Tuesday, October 1, 7:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Team Roth	3	3	0	1	0	2	X	X	9
Oh Eun-jin	0	0	2	0	1	0	X	X	3

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Anna Sidorova	0	1	0	1	0	1	X	X	3
Jamie Sinclair	4	0	2	0	2	0	X	X	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Theresa Cannon	0	0	0	1	0	1	X	X	2
Kim Kyeong-ae	2	2	1	0	2	0	X	X	7

Draw 9

Wednesday, October 2, 7:00 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Gim Un-chi	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	4	8
Kim Min-ji	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Theresa Cannon	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	6
Team Roth	0	0	1	0	3	0	2	0	1	7

Draw 11

Wednesday, October 2, 3:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Silvana Tirinzoni	2	0	0	2	0	2	0	2	8
Gim Un-chi	0	2	1	0	1	0	2	0	6

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kim Min-ji	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	5
Anna Sidorova	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	4

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Elena Stern	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	5
Kim Kyeong-ae	1	0	0	0	3	0	2	1	7

Playoffs

Source:^[13]

	Semifinals					Final
	A1	Silvana Tirinzoni	6
	B2	Team Roth	7
						B2	Team Roth	5
						B1	Kim Kyeong-ae	4
	B1	Kim Kyeong-ae	3
	A2	Kim Min-ji	2

	Bronze medal game
	A1	Silvana Tirinzoni	6
	A2	Kim Min-ji	4

Semifinals

Thursday, October 3, 9:00 am

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Silvana Tirinzoni	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	1	6
Team Roth	0	0	2	0	2	2	1	0	7

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kim Kyeong-ae	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	3
Kim Min-ji	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	2

Bronze medal game

Thursday, October 3, 1:00 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Silvana Tirinzoni	1	1	1	0	0	2	0	1	6
Kim Min-ji	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	4

Final

Thursday, October 3, 5:00 pm

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Team Roth	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	5
Kim Kyeong-ae	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	4

Notes

1. As their skip Kim Eun-jung was still on maternity leave, third Kim Kyeong-ae took over as skip and alternate Kim Cho-hi stepped in as third.