2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling (January)
Pool Skip Third Second Lead Locale
Pool A Peter Corner Graeme McCarrel Phil Lovenmark Paul Madgett Ontario
Pool A John Epping Scott Bailey Darryl Prebble Trevor Wall Toronto
Pool A Rob Fowler Allan Lyburn Richard Daneault Derek Samagalski Brandon
Pool A Kevin Martin John Morris Marc Kennedy Ben Hebert Edmonton
Pool A Jeff Stoughton Jon Mead Reid Carruthers Steve Gould Winnipeg
Pool A Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Christoffer Svae Håvard Vad Petersson Oslo
Pool B Mark Bice Codey Maus Steve Bice John Grant Tara
Pool B Jim Cotter Ken Maskiewich Kevin Folk Rick Sawatsky Kelowna
Pool B Brad Gushue ( fourth ) Randy Ferbey ( skip ) Mark Nichols Ryan Fry St. John 's
Pool B Glenn Howard Richard Hart Brent Laing Craig Savill Coldwater
Pool B Pat Simmons Steve Laycock Brennen Jones Dallan Muyres Regina
Pool B Don Walchuk Chris Schille D. J. Kidby Don Bartlett Edmonton
Pool C Brent Ross ( fourth ) Jake Higgs ( skip ) Andrew Clayton Bill Buchanan Harriston
Pool C Mark Kean Chris Van Huyse Patrick Janssen Tim March Woodstock
Pool C Kevin Koe Blake MacDonald Carter Rycroft Nolan Thiessen Edmonton
Pool C Dale Matchett Ryan Werenich Jeff Gorda Shawn Kaufman Bradford
Pool C Mike McEwen B.J . Neufeld Matt Wozniak Denni Neufeld Winnipeg
Pool C Wayne Middaugh Joe Frans Adam Spencer Scott Foster Toronto
Teams
The 2011 BDO Canadian Open of Curling was held from January 26-30 at the General Motors Centre in Oshawa, Ontario. This event was the third men's Grand Slam event in the 2010-11 curling season. The purse for this event was CAD$100,000. 18 men's teams will be playing for eight quarterfinal spots in a round-robin competition. The competition was marked by an interesting turn of events when the Thomas Ulsrud rink failed to win a game against Peter Corner. Team Ulsrud's loss created an eight-way tie in 2-3 win-loss records, prompting a draw shot challenge and the scheduling of two tiebreakers. Team Ulsrud, as well as Team Corner, Team Middaugh, and Team Higgs, failed to advance in the draw shot challenge, leaving Team Epping, Team Fowler, Team Bice and Team Walchuk to participate in the tiebreakers. If Thomas Ulsrud's rink had won the game against Peter Corner, there would be no tiebreakers. This marks the first time in Grand Slam history that a 2-3 win-loss record could qualify a team to a tiebreaker. The four remaining teams fought for the eighth qualifying spot, and Rob Fowler won the qualifying game. Mike McEwen won his second Grand Slam of the season in an extra-end win over Glenn Howard in the final.