MCA STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS AND BONSPIELS
The MCA oversees and supports Minnesota state championships, playdowns, and bonspiels.
State Championships Entry and Playdown Format
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 23 – 26, 2025 ~ Bemidji Curling Club
Link to entry registration
U.S. Club Nationals – Milwaukee CC, WI, March 26 – 30, 2025
Current and Past Champions: Men’s / Women’s
WOMEN’S and MEN’S ARENA CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS
Eligibility: 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.
State Event = TBD, Host Site:
Link to entry registration
U.S. Arena Club Nationals – Wausau CC, WI, October 23 – 27, 2024
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 21 – 23, 2025 ~ Dakota Curling Club, Lakeville
Link to entry registration
U.S. Mixed Nationals – Denver Curling Club, April 16 – 20, 2025
Current and Past Mixed Champions
UNDER-18 JUNIOR GIRLS’ and BOYS’ REGIONAL 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 USACurling eligibility requirements to play out of our Minnesota region including having USCA competitive memberships.
Regional Playdown: November 18 – 20, 2024, Curl Mesabi, Eveleth
Link to entry registration. Registration deadline was October 11, 2024.
U.S. U-18 Nationals – Rock Creek CC, Lafayette, CO, January 8 – 12, 2025
Current and Past Champions: U-18 Girls / U-18 Boys
SENIOR WOMEN’S AND MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIPS
Established in 2002, the U.S. Senior National Championships are for athletes aged 50 and above. The winners of this championship represent the United States at the World Senior Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships.
USA Curling conducts this event.
JUNIOR WOMEN’S and JUNIOR MEN’S REGIONAL CHALLENGE
Minnesota curlers 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, may compete in the western U.S. regional playdown which leads to National and World competitions.
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. The National championship leads to World competition.
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.
WHEELCHAIR MIXED DOUBLES
Wheelchair curlers throw their stones with the use of a delivery stick: a long pole that loops around the handle of the stone. There is no sweeping. In the well-known curling spirit of camaraderie, when throwing, a player’s opponent braces the wheel of the throwing player, holding the right wheel of their chair against any backwards moment from their throw. There are also volunteers who can stand behind players to brace the chair.
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.
2025: Frogtown Curling Club, St. Paul, February 21 – 23, 2025
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.
2025: Brainerd Lakes CC, January 10 – 12, 2025, Entry Info and Registration Form
Current and Past Senior Men’s Champions