U.S. winners Clark, Brown qualify for Champions Cup

Seattle’s Brady Clark and Erika Brown of Madison, Wis., have earned spots to the Humpty’s Champions Cup, the season-ending Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling event in Sherwood Park, Alta.

Clark stunned John Shuster of Duluth, Minn., 10-4 Saturday in Jacksonville, Fla., to win the USA Men’s National Curling Championship, which is one of 15 qualifying tournaments for the brand new Pinty’s GSOC event.

Brown also clinched a place by edging Nina Roth of Blaine, Minn., 8-6 in the extra end Friday during the U.S. women’s final.

The Humpty’s Champions Cup features all of the top winners of the curling season in one final showdown and runs April 26 to May 1 at the Sherwood Park Arena Sports Centre. Tickets are now available, click here for details to purchase your passes today to this must-see event!

Humpty’s Champions Cup teams

Men’s Teams	Women’s Teams
Tour Challenge (Tier 1) Kevin Koe	Tour Challenge (Tier 1) Silvana Tirinzoni
Masters Mike McEwen	Masters/National/Canadian Open Rachel Homan
National Brad Gushue	Players’ Championship TBD
Canadian Open John Epping	European Championship Anna Sidorova
Elite 10 TBD	World Championship TBD
Players’ Championship TBD	World Junior Championship TBD
European Championship Niklas Edin	Pacific-Asia Championship Satsuki Fujisawa
World Championship TBD	Scotties Tournament of Hearts TBD
World Junior Championship TBD	U.S. National Championship Erika Brown
Pacific-Asia Championship Soo-Hyuk Kim	Canad Inns Women’s Classic EunJung Kim
Tim Hortons Brier TBD	DEKALB Superspiel Jennifer Jones
U.S. National Championship Brady Clark	Colonial Square Ladies Classic Krista McCarville
Canad Inn Men’s Classic Steve Laycock	Prestige Hotels & Resorts Curling Classic Stefanie Lawton
DEKALB Superspiel Reid Carruthers	Red Deer Curling Classic Kelsey Rocque
Ed Werenich Golden Wrench Classic Pat Simmons	Tour Challenge (Tier 2) Kerri Einarson

Note: If a team wins more than one qualifying event (e.g. a team captures the Elite 10 and the Players’ Championship titles) additional WCT/CCT winners based on strength of field will be invited to complete the 15-team field.