A bonspiel is a curling tournament, consisting of several games, often held on a weekend. Until the 20th century most bonspiels were held outdoors, on a frozen freshwater loch . Today almost all bonspiels are held indoors on specially prepared artificial ice.
11-597: The Stockholm Ladies Cup , or the Stockholm Ladies Curling Cup is an annual bonspiel , or curling tournament, that takes place at the Danderyd Curling Arena in Stockholm , Sweden . The tournament is held in a round robin with straight playoff format. This change was made in 2014 from a triple-knockout format. The tournament was started in 2005 and became a Curling Champions Tour event, now part of
22-542: A few are also held outdoors like the Ironman Outdoor Curling Bonspiel in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba . The United States Curling Association (USA Curling) is the national governing body of the sport in the United States. Most bonspiels in the United States are held indoors in dedicated curling facilities, but a few bonspiels are held outdoors if the weather allows it. One example of an outdoor bonspiel
33-510: Is one of the few in New Zealand to have conditions suitable for outdoor curling, and is also a fitting site for the sport given that Otago 's original European settlers were mainly from Scotland. Several artificial and natural lakes around the towns of Oturehua , Naseby and Patearoa provide good conditions, on average every second or third year. The national bonspiel has been held when conditions permit since 1879, with Oturehua's Idaburn Dam
44-719: Is the Sawtooth Outdoor Bonspiel held each January in the Sawtooth Mountain Range of Idaho. Bonspiels are popular throughout the United States during curling season, typically October through April. Some special bonspiels are held in the summer as well as some that are hosted by clubs that play on arena ice as there are usually fewer scheduling conflicts with other sports at the area such as hockey and figure skating. In Scotland, outdoor bonspiels are now very rare; most lochs that formerly hosted bonspiels, such as Loch Earn , rarely freeze over anymore. The Loch of Aboyne
55-555: The Dunedin Ice Stadium ), and in the towns of Naseby, Otago and Gore, Southland , and also further north in the country's largest city, Auckland . Open air ice rinks exist in Naseby and Alexandra . A cashspiel is a bonspiel played for money, and a carspiel is one played for the prize of an automobile. There are different types of cashspiels, some are small, with prizes in the hundreds of dollars, and others are quite sizeable, with
66-686: The Royal Caledonian Curling Club 's own pond at Carsebreck Loch in Perth and Kinross served by the society's own private Carsbreck railway station . Dozens of bonspiels are held in European countries every year. Switzerland hosts multiple Curling Champions Tour events. Curling bonspiels are held when ice conditions permit in the Maniototo , part of Central Otago in the South Island . The region
77-720: The World Curling Tour . Only skip's name is displayed. Bonspiel Curling Canada , formerly known as the Canadian Curling Association, is the national governing body of the sport in Canada. While bonspiels originated in Scotland , the most notable competitive curling tournament in the world nowadays is the Canadian Men's Curling Championship, The Brier . For many Canadians, this tournament equals or nearly equals
88-580: The importance of the Olympics and the World Curling Championship . The Canadian Women's Curling Championship is called the Scotties Tournament of Hearts . Several Cashspiels are played in Canada every year, with the most important cashspiels being part of the World Curling Tour (WCT). Many local curling clubs and other organizations in Canada also host casual, social bonspiels indoors, and
99-510: The rewards running into the tens of thousands of dollars. Possibly from Dutch bond "league, association" + spel "game". Patearoa Patearoa is a small settlement in inland Otago in New Zealand 's South Island . It is located 20 kilometres southwest of Ranfurly , in the Maniototo (the upper valley of the Taieri River ) and was originally known as Sowburn. Andrew Buchanan
110-515: The venue since 1932. The most recent national bonspiel, the 66th, was held on 13-14 July 2015. Most New Zealand curling clubs are located in Otago , Canterbury , and Southland , and owing to the difficulty of getting teams to the relatively inaccessible venue, it is rare for teams to travel from outside the southern South Island to the bonspiel. Indoor curling rinks exist in Otago's main centre, Dunedin (at
121-642: Was the site of a bonspiel in 1891 and the private railway station, Aboyne Curling Pond was used for the event. The word spiel is sometimes used to refer to an informal curling game, as in parish spiel . The most important Cashspiels in Scotland are part of the Curling Champions Tour (CCT) The Grand Match was last held outdoors in 1979, although it was revived as an indoor tournament in 2000 and has been held every five years since. Between 1853 and 1935 twenty-five 'Grand Matches' or bonspiels were held at
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