TSN All-Star Curling Skins Game | |
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Established | 1986 |
Host city | Banff, Alberta |
Arena | The Fenlands Banff Recreation Centre |
Current champions (2019) | |
Men | Team Brendan Bottcher |
Women | Team Jennifer Jones |
Current edition | |
The TSN All-Star Curling Skins Game is an annual curling bonspiel hosted by The Sports Network. "Skins" curling had been developed as a way to make curling more interesting on TV during the time before the free guard zone rule was implemented. The bonspiel was held annually from 1986 to 2004 before being revived as the Casino Rama Curling Skins Game in 2007. In 2013, Dominion of Canada took over naming rights to the event, which also shifted into an all-star format featuring teams of top Canadian curling players, but the format reverted to the original format in 2015, when Pinty's acquired the naming rights to the event.
In skins curling, teams compete for "skins" rather than points. A team can win a skin by stealing an end or scoring two or more points in an end while with the hammer.