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Tour Challenge
View on Wikipedia| Tour Challenge | |
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| Established | 2015 |
| 2025 host city | Nisku, Alberta |
| 2025 arena | Silent Ice Center |
| Purse | CAD$175,000 |
| Current champions (2025) | |
| Men |  Bruce Mouat |
| Women |  Rachel Homan |
| Current edition | |
| Grand Slam of Curling events |
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The Tour Challenge, known as the HearingLife Tour Challenge for sponsorship reasons, is a bonspiel, or curling tournament, which is one of the Grand Slam of Curling events. It was introduced into the Grand Slam lineup starting in the 2015–16 curling season.[1]
The event features a men's and women's draw, and is split into two tiers of 16 teams each, Tier 1 and Tier 2.[2] The top 16 teams on the World Curling Federation team ranking qualify for the Tier 1 event, while the next top 16 teams qualify for the Tier 2 event. The winning team at the Tier 2 event qualifies for another Grand Slam, the Canadian Open.[2] For the 2025 edition of the Tour Challenge, the Tier 2 event was replaced with a GSOC Jr. U25 Tour Challenge Event, to showcase the future of the sport and support the transition of teams from juniors to men's/women's play.[3]
From 2022 to 2023, the format consisted of four pools, where each team played all four of their games against the four teams of another pool. The top 8 teams overall made the playoffs. In 2023, tiebreakers were dropped.[2] In 2024, the event became a triple knockout event[4] for the first time. In 2025, the Tier 1 event, as well as the U25 event, returned to the pool format, with each team playing the three other teams in their pool. The Tier 1 event also includes a cross over game.
Past champions
[edit]Men
[edit]Tier 1
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Tier 2
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U25
[edit]| Year | Winning team | Runner-up team | Purse |
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| 2025 |  Takumi Maeda, Hiroki Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa, Gakuto Tokoro |
Jordan McNamara, Colton Daly, Jacob Clarke, Brenden Laframboise |
$60,000 |
Women
[edit]Tier 1
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Tier 2
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U25
[edit]| Year | Winning team | Runner-up team | Purse |
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| 2025 |  Serena Gray-Withers, Catherine Clifford, Lindsey Burgess, Zoe Cinnamon |
Yuina Miura, Kohane Tsuruga, Rin Suzuki, Hana Ikeda |
$60,000 |
References
[edit]- ^ "About the Tour Challenge". grandslamofcurling.com. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ^ a b c "HearingLife Tour Challenge Format and Qualification". grandslamofcurling.com. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
- ^ "Grand Slam's U25 event a glimpse into the future". Grand Slam of Curling. Retrieved October 16, 2025.
- ^ "Eight Ends: All you need to know for the 2024 HearingLife Tour Challenge". Sportsnet. Retrieved September 30, 2024.
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