Brad Jacobs vs Yannick Schwaller — GSOC Invitational - CurlingZone

The draw schedule is set for the GSOC Masters, Nov. 3-8, at Co-op Place in Medicine Hat, Alberta. The season's second Grand Slam of Curling event features 16 of the top men's teams and 16 of the top women's teams from around the world. Click here for a breakdown of the field. Full-event, weekend and day passes, plus single draw tickets, are now available. Visit GSOCtickets.com to purchase yours today. GSOC MASTERS DRAW SCHEDULE Time (MT) Draw A B C D Tuesday, Nov. 3 7:30 a.m. 1 Gimvs. Saville U25 qualifier Mouatvs. Koe Nihiravs. Kitazawa Waddellvs. Yamaguchi 11 a.m. 2 Homanvs. Sturmay X. Schwallervs. Gray-Withers Dunstonevs. Saville U25 qualifier Hasselborgvs. Fujisawa 3 p.m. 3 Pätzvs. Reese-Hansen Einarsonvs. Kobayashi Y. Schwallervs. Van Amsterdam Wranåvs. Park 7 p.m. 4 Jacobsvs. Spiller Bottchervs. Epping Caspervs. Hösli Hardievs. McDonald Wednesday, Nov. 4 7:30 a.m. 5 X. Schwallervs. Kobayashi Waddellvs. Saville U25 qualifier Wranåvs. Saville U25 qualifier Kitazawavs. Einarson 11 a.m. 6 Mouatvs. Epping Dunstonevs. Yamaguchi Hardievs. Spiller Gimvs. Sturmay 3 p.m. 7 Hasselborgvs. Park Nihiravs. Reese-Hansen Homanvs. Fujisawa Pätzvs. Gray-Withers 7 p.m. 8 Caspervs.

VICTORIA — Playoffs! It's going down Saturday in the GSOC Co-op Invitational at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. Weekend and day passes, plus single draw tickets, are available. Visit GSOCtickets.com for more information. Can't make it to the arena? See below for broadcast details and check our full broadcast schedule so you never miss a moment. Saturday's featured games Canada's Team Kerri Einarson will face Japan's Team Miyu Ueno in the women's quarterfinals (3 p.m. ET / Noon PT). The crew from Gimli, Manitoba, will hold the hammer to start. Einarson finished the preliminary round at 3-1 to take the No. 2 seed, but her lone loss was against Ueno on Wednesday. It's an all-Canadian clash, and a Battle of Alberta no less, between Calgary's Team Brad Jacobs and Edmonton's Team Brendan Bottcher in the men's quarterfinals (7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT). Jacobs was victorious 6-3 when they faced Wednesday in the preliminary round. "They've had a good season," Team Jacobs third Marc Kennedy said after the win. "That's a good team. They're going to be up there with the best of the Canadian teams. ... It was a good test for us. We were excited to come here and play.

By Jonathan Brazeau VICTORIA — It's the final day of the preliminary round in the GSOC Co-op Invitational at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. Who will advance to the playoffs? Full-event, weekend and day passes plus single draw tickets are available. Visit GSOCtickets.com for more information. Can't make it to the arena? See below for broadcast details and check our full broadcast schedule so you never miss a moment. Friday's featured games The top two men's teams in the world rankings collide as Switzerland's Team Yannick Schwaller and Scotland's Team Grant Hardie face in Draw 14 (3 p.m. ET / Noon PT). World No. 1 Schwaller (3-0, eight points) will look to remain undefeated, while world No. 2 Hardie (2-1, five points) needs a victory to stay ahead of the logjam at two wins. Schwaller defeated Hardie 8-2 in the Euro Super Series final in August. This is Hardie's first Grand Slam as a skip since his series debut at the 2017 Champions Cup, before joining Bruce Mouat and forming a dynasty back-end pairing. Hardie's first-ever game in that event was an 8-1 loss to Peter de Cruz's team, featuring Benoît Schwarz-van Berkel at fourth stones. "Crazy.

VICTORIA — Team Brad Jacobs ousted Team Brendan Bottcher in an all-Canadian clash and a Battle of Alberta in the Co-op Invitational quarterfinals. Jacobs and his Calgary-based crew scored a deuce in the third, the lone multi-point end of the game, during a 5-3 victory over Bottcher's Edmonton rink Saturday at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. The reigning Olympic gold champs will take on Switzerland's Team Yannick Schwaller in the evening semifinals. Schwaller dispatched Winnipeg's Team Matt Dunstone 5-3. There will be a first-time men's finalist, as Norway's Team Magnus Ramsfjell and Switzerland's Team Marco Hösli meet in the other semifinal. Ramsfjell eliminated Winnipeg's Team John Epping 8-2, and Hösli defeated Scotland's Team Grant Hardie 6-5. Ramsfjell has reached the semifinals once before: in his series debut at the 2022 Masters. Hösli qualified for the playoffs for the first time this week in his 11th appearance in the series.

By Jonathan Brazeau VICTORIA — It was the most anticipated game of the Co-op Invitational since the draw schedule was set: Canada’s Team Brad Jacobs versus Sweden’s Team Oskar Eriksson. A sizeable crowd was on hand Friday night at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre regardless, cheering on hometown heroes Team Taylor Reese-Hansen, but they were just as engaged and enthralled by the grudge match of Olympic proportions happening on the adjacent sheet. Here we are now. Entertain us. It was the first game between the two sides since their fiery round-robin encounter during the Olympic Winter Games in Milano Cortina. Eriksson, then throwing third stones for legendary skip Niklas Edin, accused Team Jacobs third Marc Kennedy of illegally double-touching a rock. Colourful words were exchanged in the viral moment that became one of the hottest talking points of the Games, lingering on even as Jacobs went on to capture Olympic gold. With Edin stepping back and Eriksson taking the reins, he just so happened to slot into the same pool as Jacobs for the Co-op Invitational, the season’s first Grand Slam of Curling tournament. What a coincidence?

Brad Jacobs and Oskar Eriksson met Friday for the first time since their Olympic controversy. But this time, there was no drama, just a beatdown.