MCA STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS AND BONSPIELS
The MCA oversees and supports Minnesota state championships, playdowns, and bonspiels.
State Championships Entry and Playdown Format
State Championship Host Club Rotation Schedule
Hosting the Men’s and Women’s State Club / Arena Club Championships
Hosting the Mixed State Championship
Hosting the Juniors Under-18 State Championships
Officiating Resources
United States Curling Association Rules of Competition
MEN’S and WOMEN’S CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS
Eligibility: Four- or five-person teams are eligible if they are dues-paying, league-playing, individual members of the same Minnesota curling club for the current curling season.
January 25 – 28, 2024, Host Site: Brainerd Lakes Curling Association
Link to entry registration
U.S. Nationals – Fargo, ND
Current and Past Champions: Men’s / Women’s
WOMEN’S and MEN’S ARENA CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS
An arena club is defined as a member club that conducts curling leagues and events on ice rented from a facility that is not exclusively or predominantly used for curling. Four- or five-person teams from the same dues-paying Minnesota club are eligible.
April 4 – 6, 2024, Host Site: Dakota Curling Club, Lakeville
Link to entry registration
U.S. Nationals – TBD
Current and Past Champions: Arena Women’s / Arena Men’s
MIXED STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
Eligibility: A mixed team must meet the USCA eligibility requirements to play out of our Minnesota region: two of the four players must be members of a Minnesota curling club.
February 16 – 18, 2024, Host Site: Two Harbors Curling Club
Link to entry registration –Registration deadline is January 12, 2024.
U.S. Nationals – Denver, CO
Current and Past Mixed Champions
UNDER-18 JUNIOR GIRLS’ and BOYS’ STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
Eligibility: Four or five players who are less than 18 years of age, up to the 30th day of June of the year immediately preceding the year of the competition. Curlers must meet USCA eligibility requirements to play out of our Minnesota region.
December 14 – 17, 2023, Host Site: Bemidji Curling Club
Link to entry registration
U.S. Nationals – Lafayette, CO
Current and Past Champions: U-18 Girls / U-18 Boys
JUNIOR WOMEN’S and JUNIOR MEN’S REGIONAL CHALLENGE
Eligibility: Four or five players who are less than 21 years of age, up to the 30th day of June of the year immediately preceding the year of the competition. Curlers must meet USCA eligibility requirements to playdown in the western U.S. region.
USA Curling conducts this event.
Current and Past State Champions: Junior Women’s / Junior Men’s
MIXED DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP
Mixed Doubles is a curling game with teams of two players, one male and one female. Teams throw six stones with one of those stones pre-positioned on the centerline at the beginning of each end. Player one delivers the first and last stones and player two plays the second, third and fourth stones. If they choose to, players may swap positions from one end to the next. Sweeping can be done by both players. Games are eight ends.
USA Curling conducts this event.
FIVE and UNDER CHAMPIONSHIP
Begun in 2021, the 5-and-Under Regional (State) and National Championships are competitions for players who have up to and no more than five years of curling experience. The 5-and-Under is open to players with every level of ability, including (but not limited to) stick and wheelchair curlers.
USA Curling conducts this event.
WOMEN’S GOPHER STATE BONSPIEL
Since 1969, the Gopher State Women’s Curling Association has been promoting the game and the spirit of curling throughout the state of Minnesota with its annual, traveling, competitive yet social, bonspiel. Proceeds from this bonspiel are “recycled” to keep the following year’s bonspiel affordable to all, and have contributed to Minnesota Junior Curling and a summertime golf tournament. Four events are awarded with traveling trophies.
Hosting the Gopher State Women’s Curling Association Bonspiel
Current and Past Gopher State Champions
MEN’S SENIOR STATE BONSPIEL
This traveling bonspiel invites Minnesota men curlers to a weekend of camaraderie and competition. Curlers can enter one of three divisions: Seniors -those over age 50; and Super Seniors – wherein all team members are over 65 years of age, and Masters – those aged 70 and older. The number of entries determines round robin or bracket play. The MCA awards the winning pins.
2024 Men’s State Seniors / Super Seniors / Masters Bonspiels – Bemidji CC, January 12 – 14, 2024
Current and Past Senior Men’s Champions