ENTRIES NOW OPEN!!

 

If any teams have to withdraw, the entry fee will only be repaid if we fill the space. Entries will be accepted on a first come first served basis.

 2023 Aberdeen City Open Results

A big thanks to all 16 teams who entered and competed in the 2023 City Open, and to all spectators who came along to watch and support. It was great to see the rink so busy and we hope to see everyone back next year! 

Congratulations to Team Penny on winning the 2023 Aberdeen City Open after beating Team Connal in the final. 

1st Place - Team Penny 

Graeme Penny, Kyle McLain, Simon Gibb & Kenny Rae

2nd Place - Team Connal

Andy Penker, Al Scott, Graeme Connal (Not pictured: Mark Fraser)

3rd Place - Team Young

Rachel Dakers, Eilidh Yeats, Jen Marshall & Lesley Young

4th Place - Team Hibby

Hibby, Chay Telfer, Jamie McDowall & Stuart Marshall

5th Place - Team Perras

Dillan Perras, Luke Perras, Ethan Brewster & Tom Brewster

6th Place - Team Grigor

Chris Inglis, Sarah Glidden, Rhiann Stagg & Ian Grigor

Final Standings 

Blue Section

Red Section 

A big focus with the reintroduction of the City Open was to bring back the social side to curling. It was great to see all teams joining their opposition for drinks after games, and the rink busy on Friday evening whilst everyone enjoyed live music.

Thanks to everyone who came along to the Dutch Mill on Saturday evening. It was great to see so many of the teams there and still making it to the rink on Sunday morning for the final round robin games!!

 Aberdeen City Open 2023

We are happy to announce Aberdeen City Open is BACK!!

With 16 teams entered the 2023 competition teams will be split into two sections of eight. First games begin at 6.00pm on Friday 24th March and a Scheckel system is being used therefore teams will draw their first opponents out of the hat before heading onto the ice. 

On Friday evening there will be live music at the rink from 7.30pm and on the Saturday evening we would like to invite all teams and spectators along to the Dutch Mill after games to socialise, and enjoy more live music with fellow competitors.

Sections and Timetable 

Friday 24th March

Draw 1 - 6.00pm - Blue Section

Draw 2 - 7.45pm - Red Section

Saturday 25th March

Draw 3 - 9.00am - Blue Section

Draw 4 - 10.45am - Red Section

Draw 5 - 1.00pm - Blue Section

Draw 6 - 2.45pm - Red Section

Draw 7 - 5.00pm - Blue Section

Draw 8 - 6.45pm - Red Section

Sunday 26th March

Draw 9 - 9.00am - Blue Section

Draw 10 - 10.45am - Red Section

1v2, 3v4, 5v6 Play-Offs - 1.00pm

BLUE SECTION                                                        RED SECTION

Graeme Connal                                                            Titus MacTavish

Lianne McGregor                                                          Ian Grigor

Dillan Perras                                                                  Ewan Mitchell

Wengen Wanderers                                                       Hibby

Lesley Young                                                                Manon Harsch

Bill Morrison                                                                  Layla Huntly

Andrew Lyon                                                                 Isla Riddoch

Kim Brewster                                                                Graeme Penny

 ENTRIES NOW OPEN!!

24^th – 26^th March 2023

 

ENTRY FORM

 

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CONTACT DETAILS

 

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The entry fee is £240 per team payable with your entry.

Payment can be made by BAC’s or by card over the phone 

Account name – Ice Rink Club

Sort code – 80-05-14

Account Number – 00370565

 

If paying by BAC’s, please put your team name and ACO as the reference.

 

                        All entries should be sent to: Curl Aberdeen,

             Eday Walk,

             Summerhill,

              Aberdeen

              AB15 6LN

 

     development@curl-aberdeen.co.uk

24^th – 26^th March 2023

Curl Aberdeen is delighted to announce the return of the Aberdeen City Open Curling Competition. With a new format and entertainment. We are looking for 24 teams with teams made up of any four curlers. Teams will compete for the Aberdeen City Open trophy which was kindly donated by Aberdeen City Council back in 2009. Prizes will be awarded to the top 8 teams.

 

The first round of games will begin on Friday the 24^th of March at 6pm. Teams will be split into 4 groups of 6. All games played will be 6 ends with each team guaranteed at least 5 games. The top two teams will qualify for the high and low road with finals being played at 3pm on Sunday the 26^th of March.

Entry fee will be £240 per team.  

We have live music at the rink on the Friday evening from 8pm.

On the Saturday evening we will provide a buffet available for all teams which will be served from 5.30pm and we would like to invite all competitors & spectators along to the Dutch Mill after their games to enjoy live music and socialise with fellow players.

We have arranged a deal where competitors can receive £10 off rooms per night at either the Dutch Mill or Atholl Hotel.

 To arrange please contact Katherine Deans:

The Dutch Mill, 7 Queens Road, Aberdeen, AB15 4NR

info@dutchmill.co.uk  01224 322555

Or

The Atholl Hotel, 54 Kings Gate, Aberdeen, AB15 4YN

info@atholl-aberdeen.co.uk 01224 323505

For entry forms or more details please contact       

development@curl-aberdeen.co.uk

2020 Aberdeen City Open Champions

Huge congratulations to Team Van Dorp who visited Aberdeen for game time, winning the comp they have entered many times previously for the first time. They brought over team mates with them as the competition struggled for entries this year, and we thank them for that, the make shift team qualified out their group also finishing fourth overall.

Team Barr (Kinross) qualified out their section unbeaten to make the final against van Dorp. Barr put pressure on van Dorp in the final with some great draws, but for Grant Jaap and his team edged them running them out of stones in the eight end.

Team Woolston, former champions of the City Open finished third beating team Magan in the 3/4 playoff. This was in preparation for them as they head to Dumfries for their national championships.

This year the City open had 16 teams from Norway, Netherlands, England and Aberdeen, next year 24 is our target, so spread the word and help us get back to 24 teams, and who knows the Horses might be back for it.

If anyone has any leads or would like to sponsor this great competition, please get in touch.

Cheers

Stuart

Draw 2020

Entries now OPEN!

Aberdeen City Open

31^st January – 2^nd February 2020

Games will begin on Friday 31^st January in the evening. A total of 24 teams can be accommodated and will be split into two sections of 12. The final will be held at 3pm on Sunday 2^nd February. All teams are guaranteed four games under the Schenkel System.

PRIZES

Category	Prize Money
City Open Champions	£500
Runner Up	£320
3rd Place	£280
4th Place	£220

ENTRY FEE

The entry fee is £200 per team and is payable with your entry. This can be paid by cheque payable to “The Ice Rink Club” or by BACS. Account Name: The Ice Rink Club. Account Number: 00370565. Sort Code: 80-05-14.  If paying by BACS please put your team name and Aberdeen City Open as the reference.

If any teams have to withdraw, the entry fee will only be repaid if we fill the space. Entries will be accepted on a first come first served basis. The closing date for entries is 1^st December 2019.

ENTERTAINMENT

Your entry fee includes entertainment and a two course dinner on Saturday night (1^st February 2020).

Additional tickets can be purchased for the event at a cost of £20 per ticket.

All entries should be sent to: Curl Aberdeen,

Eday Walk,

Summerhill,

Aberdeen

AB15 6LN

development@curl-aberdeen.co.uk

Aberdeen City Open 2019

Aberdeen City Open Winners 2019 Team McNay

Aberdeen City Open hosted 16 teams of varying ability and age. Teams were split into two sections and played a schenkel for 3 games to determine who would play each other in the final. McNay and Edwards fought it out in the final having both won their sections. It was a tight final with McNay 2 down playing the last with hammer, it was a tense last shot but he made his shot for the 3 and claimed the Aberdeen City Open prize.

Other updates from Aberdeen City Open 2019 can be found via facebook on this link, with the usual bloggers creating a make shift team due a late team pull out. Will be back to usual next season!

Cheers

Pye

Entries are now OPEN!

Aberdeen City Open

1^st – 3^rd February 2019

Games will begin on Friday 1st February in the evening. A total of 24 teams can be accommodated and will be split into two sections of 12. The final will be held at 3pm on Sunday 3^rd February. All teams are guaranteed four games under the Schenkel System.

PRIZES

Category	Prize Money
City Open Champions	£500
Runner Up	£320
3rd Place	£280
4th Place	£220

ENTRY FEE

The entry fee is £200 per team and is payable with your entry. This can be paid by cheque payable to “The Ice Rink Club” or by BACS. Account Name: The Ice Rink Club. Account Number: 00370565. Sort Code: 80-05-14.  If paying by BACS please put your team name and Aberdeen City Open as the reference.

If any teams have to withdraw, the entry fee will only be repaid if we fill the space. Entries will be accepted on a first come first served basis. The closing date for entries is 1^st December 2018.

ACCOMMODATION

A special offer is available at Village Urban Resort – Aberdeen. Booking details and code will be given on entry to the competition.

ENTERTAINMENT

Your entry fee includes entertainment and a two course dinner on Saturday night (2^nd February 2019).

Additional tickets can be purchased for the event at a cost of £20 per ticket.

All entries should be sent to: Curl Aberdeen,

Eday Walk,

Summerhill,

Aberdeen

AB15 6LN

development@curl-aberdeen.co.uk

Welcome to the 2018 Aberdeen City Open!

We look forward to welcoming all 18 teams to this year's Aberdeen City Open. The first games take to the ice shortly where we will see the Red Section take to the ice.

Red Section

• Stuart Marshall
• Tom Brewster
• Greg Dunn
• Blair Jeffrey
• Davie Brand
• Roy Haites
• James Pugher
• Andrew Hutcheon

As is customary at our competition, the first games will be determined by teams drawing their lane and stone colour by lucky dip.

Good curling!

Aberdeen City Open 2017 Winners

The winners of the Aberdeen City Open 2017 were Team Hutcheon, skipped by Angus Robertson. Congratulations guys, you've supported the competition from day one and have finally got your name on the trophy!

Team Hutcheon - Murray McGregor, Andrew Hutcheon, Andrew Dolman and Angus Robertson (Skip)
Trophy presented by Curl Aberdeen Chairman George Rogerson

Team Hutcheon played out the final with Team Pougher of Wales, who will be returning to Curl Aberdeen next month competing in the Aberdeen International. They themselves supporting the competition for the second time, last year finishing 4th. 

Aberdeen City Open 2017

The City Open has been an eventful competition with current Scottish Champions Team Brewster losing to Team Hutcheon in the opening draw. The competition throughout was close, with teams in the blue section not making the Sunday on ends. We had a make shift team from Curl Aberdeen due to a late pull out, and with two novices playing they reached the quarter finals, big thank you for all that helped form a team for the various sessions. The quarter finals themselves lined up with three former Aberdeen City Open champs (two of which that had recently represented Scotland in the last three years at the Europeans, in Brewster, Edwards and Kesley), the Welsh national team (Pougher), Greg Dunn (one of many English teams up here for preparations for their national championships at the ned of the month), Team Hutcheon, Team Taylor and Team Curl Aberdeen 1.

From the quarters Edwards, Hutcheon, Pougher and Dunn came through to make the semi finals. Edwards got off to a bad start losing a 3 but pulled it back to be level after 8, an extra end was needed and a measure was needed when Pougher drew with his last and neither 3rds could agree who lay. Pougher went through to the Final. The Hutcheon v Dunn game began with two blanks, Dunn took his one in the 3rd, allowing Hutcheon to gain his 3 the following end, they only scored once more and that was a 2 in the sixth. Hutcheon restricted Dunn to singles and that was enough for Hutcheon to make the Final.

Photos of the competition can be found on Facebook here.

Looking forward to welcoming our competitors for the 2017 event

The competing teams have been announced. The sections issued along with the schedule. All that now awaits is the teams arriving to 'draw' for their opposition in the first game.

We look forward to welcoming all 18 teams to Curl Aberdeen on Friday and hope to see many spectators in over the competition. Good curling!

Accord ESL Aberdeen City Open Round-up

Following a successful weekend we would like to thank our sponsors Accord ESL for their support. Without their support we would struggle to put on such a successful competition attracting top teams from around the country. 

Thanks also goes to Lord Provost George Adam and Aberdeen City Council for their continued support of the event.  

Credit goes to curlers Maggie Wilson, Stuart McLachlan and Jayne Stirling for their photography over the weekend, Struan Wood and Andrew MacFarlane for compering the Race Night, Louise Edwards for the live line scores, and all the volunteers who helped with the legendary Race Night.  

A big thanks goes to our chief umpire Albert Middler, for all his hard work over the weekend. 

4th Place - Team Meikle L-R George Rogerson (Curl Aberdeen Chairman), Adrian Meikle, James Pougher, Rhys Phillips, Gary Coombs, George Adam (Lord Provost) 

3rd Place- Team Gray L-R George Rogerson, Lauren Gray, Jennifer Dodds, Vicky Wright, Mhairi Baird, George Adam

Runners-up - Team MacDougall L-R George Rogerson, Ben Fowler, Andrew Woolston, Andrew Reed, Alan MacDougall, George Adam  

Accord ESL Aberdeen City Open 2016 Champions - Team MacDonald L-R George Rogerson, Calum Greenwood, Ruairidh Greenwood, David Edwards, Ewan MacDonald, George Adam 

Competition photos can be found here.


And a massive final thanks to all competitors for taking part in this years competition and we hope to see you back next year! 



Over and Out 

Pye and Laura

Accord Aberdeen City Open Winners 2016

Team MacDonald

L-R: George Rogerson (Curl Aberdeen Chairman, Callum Greenwood, Ruairidh Greenwood, David Edwards, Ewan MacDonald, George Adam (Lord Provost of Aberdeen) 

Team Line Ups

Ewan MacDonald
David Edwards
Ruairidh Greenwood
Callum Greenwood

Alan MacDougall
Andrew Reed
Ben Fowler
Andrew Woolston

Lauren Gray
Jennifer Dodds
Vicky Wright
Mhairi Baird

Adrian Meikle
James Pougher
Rhys Philips
Gary Coombs

Final and 3v4 Games Decided

After 2 extremely close semi finals our Accord Aberdeen City Open finalists have been decided.

The final will take place at 3pm between teams MacDonald and MacDougall.

Our losing semi finalists will battle it out in the 3v4 (Meikle v Gray).

Guest blogger Gavin Fleming kindly provided a summary of our semi finals:

The first semi-final was between Team England (Alan MacDougall) and Team Wales (Adrian Meikle), so in addition to a place in the final there was national pride to play for too. The English went ahead early leading 5-1 after 5, however the Welsh struck back with a big three. England made their single in the 7^th and looked to defend their two shot lead in the 8^th. However it was the Welsh that took their chances and Adrian had a draw for two to tie the game. The sweepers nursed it to the button for the extra end. The Welsh placed their guards well early in the extra but when skips came to play the house was open again. Alan was left with an open hit for the game. He held his nerve and made no mistake.

In the other semi-final Lauren Gray, the remaining ladies team in the event, faced the tournament favourites skipped by Ewan MacDonald. It was a tight match at 3-3 after five ends, when Ewan made a draw for two and control of the game. In the 7^th, MacDonald managed to get a stone well guarded on the edge of the four-foot and the girls had only a tricky tap to the button to save one. Lauren executed the shot perfectly. The men tried hard to lift a double on the guards in the 8^th but never quite managed it. A good draw by Lauren with her last showed Ewan only half stone. This proved more than enough and he peeled it out for a place in the final.

For the second time this weekend Scotland will play England for the cup. Will yesterday’s events at Murrayfield be echoed in Aberdeen today?

Semi Final Showdown

Our semi finals will take take place at 12 noon.

• Meikle v MacDougall
• Gray v MacDonald

If you are local to Aberdeen please come on in and enjoy some high quality curling. 

Quarter Finals in Focus

The 8 quarter finalists took to the ice at 9am this morning while other competitors were no doubt taking the opportunity for a well earned lie in to ease their sore heads from last night.

Great to see 3 ladies teams making the Sunday stage of the competition, joined by the Welsh and English men and 3 Scottish men's rinks.

MacDonald v Fleming
Unfortunately for the girls this game got off to a bad start with Ewan and his team stealing 3 in the opening end. The next end the men continued to pile on the pressure and Hannah was forced to draw for her one before conceding a two and a subsequent steal of two in the fourth. At 7-1 the girls decided to call it a day.

Macleod v Gray
This game seemed to have a lot of stones in play from the start, with Scott taking on a number of run backs and angles to try and keep the ladies from running away with the lead. Lauren played a very nice shot in the 6th end, scraping (and nudging) past a shot at the front of the house to take another 2 and a convincing lead - full credit to her sweepers for a lot of effort on that one! Scott attempted a difficult raised split for three in the seventh end but unfortunately only scored one and the team shook. #girlpower

MacDougall v Aitken
The first half of this game was a tight affair with scores of one keeping the game close. A pivotal two from the English men when already one up, followed by some effective clearing by the team meant the young Aitken side were run out of stones playing the last end.

Taylor v Meikle
Momentum in this game swung between sides, with Taylor taking a big three in the sixth end. The seventh end was blanked leaving the Welsh men requiring a score of two to take the game into an extra end. After Adrian's first stone in the last end, the team lay three (one top four and two in the back eight all on the centre line), Taylor, took on the double for the extra just missing the run back and left Meikle a nose hit for the win - which he duly made.