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Muirhead earns Humpty’s Champions Cup invitation

UPDATE: Sportsnet and the Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling have cancelled the 2020 Humpty’s Champions Cup.

Eve Muirhead’s title victory at the CAMERON’S Brewing Oakville Fall Classic to start the curling year has now helped her Scottish squad gain a spot into the season-ending Humpty’s Champions Cup.

Muirhead earned an invitation to the sixth and final Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling event — taking place April 29 to May 3 at the Olds Sportsplex in Olds, Alta. — after Kerri Einarson’s club captured the Scotties Tournament of Hearts on Sunday. Einarson had already booked her Humpty’s Champions Cup ticket after claiming the 2019 Players’ Championship, thus freeing up a place for another World Curling Tour event winner.

Meanwhile, Winnipeg’s Jacques Gauthier and Mackenzie Zacharias of Altona, Man., secured their spots in the Humpty’s Champions Cup on Saturday after winning gold medals for Canada at the world junior curling championships in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

The Humpty’s Champions Cup features 12 men’s teams and 12 women’s teams who have won high-profile titles in order to qualify. Only three events remain to complete the field: the Canadian men’s curling championship (Tim Hortons Brier) and both men’s and women’s world curling championships.

Full-event and weekend passes are now available, visit thegrandslamofcurling.com/tickets for more information.

Broadcast coverage will be available on Sportsnet with online streaming at Sportsnet NOW (Canada) and Yare (international). 

2020 Humpty’s Champions Cup field

Men’s DivisionWomen’s Division
2019 Players’ Championship
Brendan Bottcher
2019 Players’ Championship
Kerri Einarson
*2018-19 Pinty’s Cup
Kevin Koe
2019 Humpty’s Champions Cup
Silvana Tirinzoni
2019 Masters
Matt Dunstone
2019 Masters
Tracy Fleury
2019 KIOTI Tractor Tour Challenge (Tier 1)
Brad Jacobs
2019 KIOTI Tractor Tour Challenge (Tier 1)
Anna Hasselborg
2019 European Championships
Niklas Edin
2019 Pacific-Asia Championships
Yu Han
2019 Pacific-Asia Championships
Chang-Min Kim
** 2019 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic
Jennifer Jones
**2019 Canada Cup
John Epping
**2019 Canada Cup
Rachel Homan
**2020 Perth Masters
Bruce Mouat
**2019 Canad Inns Women’s Classic
Elena Stern
2020 USA Curling National Championships
John Shuster
2020 USA Curling National Championships
Tabitha Peterson
2020 World Junior Championships
Jacques Gauthier
2020 World Junior Championships
Mackenzie Zacharias
2020 Tim Hortons Brier
TBD
**2019 CAMERON’S Brewing Oakville Fall Classic
Eve Muirhead
2020 World Championship
TBD
2020 World Championship
TBD

* Due to a repeat winner of the 2019 Players’ Championship and 2019 Humpty’s Champions Cup, the Pinty’s Cup champion received an invitation.

** Due to repeat winners of eligible events, winners of top tour events (based on strength of field) received invitations.