2013 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships

2013 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships
Host city	Shanghai, China
Arena	Fei Yang Skating Centre
Dates	November 11-19
Men's winner	China
Skip	Liu Rui
Third	Xu Xiaoming
Second	Ba Dexin
Lead	Zang Jialiang
Alternate	Zou Dejia
Coach	Li Hongchen
Finalist	Japan (Yusuke Morozumi)
Women's winner	South Korea
Skip	Kim Ji-sun
Third	Gim Un-chi
Second	Shin Mi-sung
Lead	Lee Seul-bee
Alternate	Um Min-ji
Coach	Chung Young-sup
Finalist	China (Wang Bingyu)

The 2013 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships took place from November 11 to 19 at the Fei Yang Skating Centre in Shanghai, China. South Korea were the women's champions, their second title after winning the 2010 Pacific Curling Championships, while China won the men's tournament, extending their winning streak to seven years. The championships served as the Pacific zone qualifiers for the World Curling Championships. The top two women's teams, China and South Korea, qualified for the 2014 Ford World Women's Curling Championship in Saint John, New Brunswick. As the 2014 World Men's Curling Championship will be hosted in Beijing, China, with the hosts as automatic qualifiers, Japan was the single men's team that advanced to the World Championship.^[1]

Competition format

The men's tournament had six teams competing, while the women's tournament had five teams, with both tournaments utilizing a double round robin format. At the conclusion of the round robin tournaments, the top four men's and women's teams played in the semifinals. The semifinal rounds will be best-of-five series, with the two games that the teams played in the round robin counted as the first and second games in the best-of-five series. The medal round, as in previous years, consisted of single games.^[2]

Men

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:^[3]

Australia	China	Chinese Taipei
Fourth: Ian Palangio Skip: Hugh Millikin Second: Duncan Clark Lead: Angus Young	Skip: Liu Rui Third: Xu Xiaoming Second: Ba Dexin Lead: Zang Jialiang Alternate: Zou Dejia	Skip: Randolph Shen Third: Brendon Liu Second: Nicolas Hsu Lead: Justin Hsu Alternate: Steve Koo
Japan	New Zealand	South Korea
Skip: Yusuke Morozumi Third: Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi Second: Tetsuro Shimizu Lead: Kosuke Morozumi Alternate: Shinya Abe	Skip: Peter de Boer Third: Sean Becker Second: Scott Becker Lead: Kenny Thomson Alternate: Philip Dowling	Skip: Kim Soo-hyuk Third: Kim Tae-hwan Second: Park Jong-duk Lead: Nam Yoon-ho Alternate: Lee Ye-jun

Round Robin Standings

Country	Skip	W	L
Japan	Yusuke Morozumi	8	2
New Zealand	Peter de Boer	7	3
China	Liu Rui	6	4
South Korea	Kim Soo-hyuk	5	5
Chinese Taipei	Randolph Shen	4	6
Australia	Hugh Millikin	0	10

Round Robin Results

All draw times listed in China Standard Time (UTC+8).^[2]

Draw 1

Tuesday, November 12, 9:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	X	0
Japan (Morozumi)	0	0	0	2	1	1	1	3	X	X	8

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Liu)	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	6
New Zealand (de Boer)	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	4

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Australia (Millikin)	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	X	5
Chinese Taipei (Shen)	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	1	1	X	7

Draw 2

Tuesday, November 12, 19:000

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Chinese Taipei (Shen)	1	1	0	0	2	0	1	3	X	X	8
China (Liu)	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	X	X	3

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Australia (Millikin)	2	0	0	2	0	0	X	X	X	X	4
Japan (Morozumi)	0	2	2	0	4	4	X	X	X	X	12

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	X	4
New Zealand (de Boer)	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	3	X	7

Draw 4

Wednesday, November 13, 09:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	3	0	0	3	1	0	3	1	X	X	11
China (Liu)	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	X	5

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New Zealand (de Boer)	2	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	2	X	9
Australia (Millikin)	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	X	4

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Chinese Taipei (Shen)	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	0	1	0	6
Japan (Morozumi)	2	0	1	0	3	0	0	1	0	1	8

Draw 6

Wednesday, November 13, 19:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Chinese Taipei (Shen)	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	6
New Zealand (de Boer)	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	5

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Morozumi)	1	0	2	1	0	0	4	2	X	X	10
China (Liu)	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	X	X	3

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Australia (Millikin)	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	X	6
South Korea (Kim)	1	0	3	0	1	0	3	0	1	X	9

Draw 7

Thursday, November 14, 9:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Liu)	6	0	1	3	0	0	X	X	X	X	10
Australia (Millikin)	0	0	0	0	0	1	X	X	X	X	1

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Morozumi)	1	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	7
New Zealand (de Boer)	0	1	0	0	1	2	1	0	2	1	8

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Chinese Taipei (Shen)	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	5
South Korea (Kim)	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	6

Draw 9

Thursday, November 14, 19:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Morozumi)	0	2	0	2	0	2	0	2	X	X	8
South Korea (Kim)	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	X	X	4

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Chinese Taipei (Shen)	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	1	1	1	8
Australia (Millikin)	0	0	2	0	0	4	1	0	0	0	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New Zealand (de Boer)	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	X	X	2
China (Liu)	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	4	X	X	9

Draw 11

Friday, November 15, 14:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Liu)	0	3	0	1	0	0	3	0	X	X	7
Chinese Taipei (Shen)	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	X	X	3

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New Zealand (de Boer)	0	3	1	0	2	0	4	0	0	1	11
South Korea (Kim)	2	0	0	4	0	2	0	1	1	0	10

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Morozumi)	1	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	X	6
Australia (Millikin)	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	X	4

Draw 12

Saturday, November 16, 9:30

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Australia (Millikin)	1	0	1	0	1	0	X	X	X	X	3
New Zealand (de Boer)	0	3	0	1	0	6	X	X	X	X	10

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Liu)	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	X	X	7
South Korea (Kim)	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	X	X	3

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Morozumi)	1	0	3	0	2	0	2	0	1	X	9
Chinese Taipei (Shen)	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	X	5

Draw 14

Saturday, November 16, 19:30

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New Zealand (de Boer)	1	0	0	2	3	0	2	2	X	X	10
Chinese Taipei (Shen)	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	X	X	4

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	2	0	3	2	0	0	3	X	X	X	10
Australia (Millikin)	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	X	X	X	3

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
China (Liu)	2	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	7
Japan (Morozumi)	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	1	8

Draw 15

Sunday, November 17, 9:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New Zealand (de Boer)	3	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	2	9
Japan (Morozumi)	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	3	0	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	3	0	2	0	0	1	0	3	0	X	9
Chinese Taipei (Shen)	0	1	0	0	3	0	2	0	1	X	7

Draw 16

Sunday, November 17, 14:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Australia (Millikin)	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	X	4
China (Liu)	1	0	2	3	0	1	0	0	2	X	9

Playoffs

	Semifinals									Gold Medal Game
	1	Japan	8	8	9
	4	South Korea	0	4	7
										1	Japan	6
										3	China	9
	2	New Zealand	4	2	7
	3	China	6	9	11

	Bronze Medal Game
	4	South Korea	7
	2	New Zealand	6

Semifinals

Game 3

Monday, November 18, 9:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	1	0	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	7
Japan (Morozumi)	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	4	0	1	9

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Liu)	0	2	0	3	2	0	0	0	2	2	11
New Zealand (de Boer)	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	7

Bronze Medal Game

Tuesday, November 19, 14:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	1	7
New Zealand (de Boer)	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	6

Gold Medal Game

Tuesday, November 19, 14:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Liu)	0	2	0	0	3	1	0	0	2	1	9
Japan (Morozumi)	3	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	6

Japan qualified for the 2014 World Men's Curling Championship by making the final

Women

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:^[4]

Australia	China	Japan	New Zealand	South Korea
Skip: Kim Forge Fourth: Sandy Gagnon Second: Anne Powell Lead: Blair Murray	Skip: Wang Bingyu Third: Liu Yin Second: Yue Qingshuang Lead: Zhou Yan Alternate: Jiang Yilun	Skip: Ayumi Ogasawara Third: Yumie Funayama Second: Kaho Onodera Lead: Michiko Tomabechi Alternate: Chinami Yoshida	Fourth: Thivya Jeyaranjan Skip: Chelsea Farley Second: Tessa Farley Lead: Waverley Taylor Alternate: Elizabeth Matthews	Skip: Kim Ji-sun Third: Gim Un-chi Second: Shin Mi-sung Lead: Lee Seul-bee Alternate: Um Min-ji

Round Robin Standings

Final Round Robin Standings

Country	Skip	W	L
South Korea	Kim Ji-Sun	7	1
China	Wang Bingyu	7	1
Japan	Ayumi Ogasawara	4	4
New Zealand	Chelsea Farley	2	6
Australia	Kim Forge	0	8

Round Robin Results

All draw times listed in China Standard Time (UTC+8).^[2]

Draw 1

Tuesday, November 12, 9:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Ogasawara)	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	4
South Korea (Kim)	0	1	1	2	1	0	0	2	0	1	8

Draw 2

Tuesday, November 12, 14:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Ogasawara)	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	X	4
China (Wang)	0	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	3	X	8

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Australia (Forge)	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	X	3
South Korea (Kim)	0	2	1	0	1	1	0	1	1	X	7

Draw 3

Tuesday, November 12, 19:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New Zealand (Farley)	0	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	X	X	5
China (Wang)	2	0	4	0	2	2	0	2	X	X	12

Draw 5

Wednesday, November 13, 14:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Australia (Forge)	1	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	6
New Zealand (Farley)	0	2	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	8

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	2	0	0	2	1	0	4	X	X	X	9
China (Wang)	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	X	X	X	2

Draw 7

Thursday, November 14, 9:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Australia (Forge)	0	0	0	1	0	0	X	X	X	X	1
China (Wang)	2	1	1	0	3	1	X	X	X	X	8

Draw 8

Thursday, November 14, 14:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Australia (Forge)	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	4
Japan (Ogasawara)	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	1	1	2	3	2	0	X	X	X	X	9
New Zealand (Farley)	0	0	0	0	0	1	X	X	X	X	1

Draw 9

Thursday, November 14, 19:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Ogasawara)	1	0	3	2	1	2	0	X	X	X	9
New Zealand (Farley)	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	X	X	X	2

Draw 10

Friday, November 15, 9:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Wang)	2	1	0	2	1	0	2	2	X	X	10
New Zealand (Farley)	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	X	2

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	0	2	1	0	1	0	2	3	X	X	9
Japan (Ogasawara)	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	X	X	3

Draw 11

Friday, November 15, 14:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Wang)	1	0	1	2	2	1	0	X	X	X	7
Australia (Forge)	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	X	X	X	2

Draw 12

Saturday, November 16, 9:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New Zealand (Farley)	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	X	3
Japan (Ogasawara)	1	0	0	0	3	2	1	0	4	X	11

Draw 13

Saturday, November 16, 14:30

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
New Zealand (Farley)	0	0	0	0	3	0	3	0	1	0	1	8
Australia (Forge)	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Wang)	1	1	0	2	0	4	0	1	1	X	10
South Korea (Kim)	0	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	X	5

Draw 14

Saturday, November 16, 19:30

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	3	0	2	0	4	1	X	X	X	X	10
Australia (Forge)	0	1	0	2	0	0	X	X	X	X	3

Draw 15

Sunday, November 17, 9:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New Zealand (Farley)	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	X	X	2
South Korea (Kim)	0	2	1	0	4	1	1	X	X	X	9

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Wang)	1	0	0	2	0	4	1	0	3	X	11
Japan (Ogasawara)	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	X	5

Draw 16

Sunday, November 17, 14:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Ogasawara)	5	2	0	3	2	0	X	X	X	X	12
Australia (Forge)	0	0	1	0	0	2	X	X	X	X	3

Playoffs

	Semifinals									Gold Medal Game
	1	South Korea	9	9	9
	4	New Zealand	1	2	5
										1	South Korea	9
										2	China	8
	2	China	8	11	12
	3	Japan	4	5	6

	Bronze Medal Game
	4	New Zealand	3
	3	Japan	11

Semifinals

Game 3

Monday, November 18, 9:30

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Kim)	2	0	0	2	1	1	1	2	0	X	9
New Zealand (Farley)	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	X	5

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Wang)	3	0	2	1	0	0	3	0	3	X	12
Japan (Ogasawara)	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	X	6

Bronze Medal Game

Tuesday, November 19, 14:00

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New Zealand (Farley)	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	X	X	3
Japan (Ogasawara)	2	4	0	0	0	1	4	0	X	X	11

Gold Medal Game

Tuesday, November 19, 14:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Wang)	0	1	0	0	2	4	0	0	1	0	8
South Korea (Kim)	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	1	0	3	9

South Korea and China qualified for the 2014 Ford World Women's Curling Championship

References

General

• "2013 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships". World Curling Federation.

• Men's results from the World Curling Federation

• Women's results from the World Curling Federation

Specific

1. "Pacific-Asia Curling Championships 2013 begin Tuesday in Shanghai". World Curling Federation. 7 November 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
2. "2013 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships – Draw". World Curling Federation. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
3. "2012 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships – Men's Teams" (PDF). World Curling Federation. 22 October 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
4. "2012 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships – Women's Teams" (PDF). World Curling Federation. 22 October 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2013.

External links

• Official website