1994 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship

1994 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship
Host city	Leduc, Alberta
Arena	Leduc Curling Club
Dates	March 26–April 2, 1994
Attendance	3,255
Winner	New Brunswick
Curling club	Beaver Curling Club, Moncton
Skip	Grant Odishaw
Third	Heather Smith
Second	Rick Perron
Lead	Krista Smith
Finalist	British Columbia
« 1993 1995 »

The 1994 Canadian Mixed Curling Championship was held March 26–April 2 at the Leduc Curling Club in Leduc, Alberta.

Team New Brunswick, skipped by Grant Odishaw won the event, defeating British Columbia (Eric Wiltzen) in the final, 9–5. Costly mistakes by British Columbia in the ninth end led to a score of two for New Brunswick. Wiltzen's wife Jan had a hog line violation, while Wiltzen himself was heavy on a draw attempt. Both teams curled 73 per cent in the final. It was the first mixed title for New Brunswick. It was also the first time the province won two national titles in the same year, with David Sullivan winning the 1994 Canadian Senior Curling Championships, only one week prior.

For New Brunswick's third, Heather Smith, it was her second national title played in Leduc. She had also won the 1991 Canadian Junior Curling Championships there. For Odishaw, it was his first national title in five trips to the Canadian mixed.

Format

The event featured 14 teams, split into two pools of seven. It included teams from each of the country's 13 member associations plus a host team. The teams played a round robin within their pools, with the top two teams in each pool going to a preliminary playoff. The remaining 10 teams dropped to a wild-card playoff, with one team making the playoffs. The playoffs consisted of the pool winners playing second place in the opposite group, with the losers playing off and the winners each of the three games advancing to a page playoff. The loser of the game played between the losers of the first games then played the winner of wild-card playoff. The winner of that game then qualified as the fourth page playoff team.

The format was heavily criticized by competitors due to how complicated it was, and the fact that not every team got to play against each other.

Round robin

Standings

Key
	Teams to tiebreakers

Pool A Skip Locale W L Nova Scotia Scott Saunders Halifax 4 2 Manitoba Jeff Stoughton Winnipeg 4 2 Alberta Ralph Brust Grande Prairie 4 2 Newfoundland Keith Renouf St. John's 4 2 New Brunswick Grant Odishaw Moncton 4 2 Ontario Bob Ingram Ridgetown 1 5 Northwest Territories Trevor Alexander Yellowknife 0 6

Pool B Skip Locale W L British Columbia Eric Wiltzen Cranbrook 4 2 Alberta (Host) Les Rogers Edmonton 4 2 Northern Ontario Rick Stewart Schumacher 4 2 Saskatchewan Charles Haichert Saskatoon 4 2 Prince Edward Island John Likely Charlottetown 3 3 Quebec Guy Hemmings Tracy 2 4 Yukon Doug Hannah Whitehorse 0 6

Tiebreakers

• New Brunswick 11, Newfoundland 3
• Manitoba 6, Alberta 4
• New Brunswick 5, Nova Scotia 4
• British Columbia 6, Saskatchewan 1
• Alberta (Host) 9, Northern Ontario 1

Playoffs

Wild Card

						Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Final
	Ontario		11
	Yukon		1			Ontario		6
						Nova Scotia		5
											Ontario		2
											Alberta		3
						Alberta		6
						Prince Edward Island		2
																Alberta		2
	Quebec		8													Northern Ontario		3
	Northwest Territories		6			Quebec		4
						Northern Ontario		6
											Northern Ontario		8
											Newfoundland		3
						Newfoundland		8
						Saskatchewan		6

Preliminary round

By losing both of their games, Alberta (Host) did not advance to the page playoffs. All other teams did.

	Upper round 1				Upper final
	Winners to page playoff
	New Brunswick	5
	Alberta (Host)	4
					New Brunswick	6
					British Columbia	5
	British Columbia	8
	Manitoba	4
									To page playoff
	Lower round 1				Lower final
					Loser eliminated
	Winner to page playoff				Alberta (Host)	8
	Alberta (Host)	7			Northern Ontario	9
	Manitoba	8

Page playoffs

	Page playoff system					Semifinal					Final
	1	New Brunswick	7								1	New Brunswick	9
	2	British Columbia	6								2	British Columbia	5
						2	British Columbia	8
						4	Northern Ontario	4
	3	Manitoba	5
	4	Northern Ontario	7

Final

April 2

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New Brunswick (Odishaw)	1	0	3	0	0	1	1	0	2	1	9
British Columbia (Wiltzen)	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	5