 Following the disappointment at the Brier the McEwen team announced they would be breaking up at the end of the 2017-18 season.Just days after the announcement the McEwen team won the 2018 Elite 10 Grand Slam of Curling event, winning the top $28,000 prize money, and was the first team to go through the entire event undefeated.The Grand Slam victory was the team's seventh overall.