Curling Canada is made up of 13 Member Associations, representing Canada’s 10 provinces, plus the territories of Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. These Member Associations participate in annual national championships operated or endorsed by Curling Canada. Beginning with the 2017-18 season, these Member Associations will be participating in three season-long competitions.

The MA Cup, presented by TSN, and the Governors’ Cup presented by Curling Canada, will remain in their existing  formats, while Curling Canada’s For The Love of Curling Cup made its debut in 2017-18.

The MA Cup and the Governors’ Cup competitions are based on the Member Association teams’ final position following the 14 annual Canadian championships: the Canadian Mixed, the Canadian U-20 Men’s and Women’s, the Tournament of Hearts, the Brier, the Canadian Senior Men’s and Women’s, the Curling Club Championships (men and women), the Canadian Wheelchair Championship, the Canadian U-18 Boys’ and Girls’, and the Canadian Masters (men and women).

• The winning Member Association, based on the highest average points from the 14 national championships, will win the MA Cup, presented by TSN.
• The Governors’ Cup will be awarded to the Member Association making the biggest year-to-year improvement on an average points basis.
• The For The Love of Curling Cup will go to the Member Association that scores the highest average points in the four championships devoted to youth curling — the Canadian U-20 Men’s and Women’s Championships and the Canadian Under-18 Boys and Girls Championships.

All three trophies will be formally presented at Curling Canada’s National Curling Congress.

Rules:

• This competition is intended to be a fun, friendly competition.
• The points assigned are 13.000 (first place) to 1.000 (last place) depending on the Member Association’s final ranking in each Curling Canada-operated or endorsed national curling championship.
• Only teams that have won a provincial/territorial championship in the current season can earn points toward the MA Cup, Governors’ Cup, and For The Love of Curling Cup.

• In the case of ties in the final overall standings (based on win-loss records), the tie will be broken based on head-to-head results; in the case of unresolvable ties (eg. three teams tied in a single-pool round robin, all with the same head-to-head record), LSD distance will be used to rank the teams. In events with two more pools, final standings will be determined by comparing the LSD totals from teams in all pools with the same final standing within in their respective pools, regardless of win-loss records (the same procedure used by World Curling). As an example, in a four-pool event, the four fourth-place finishers would be ranked 13th through 16th based solely on their LSD totals.

• In the case of double-knockout playoff formats, teams eliminated at the same stage of the playoff will be awarded half-points (eg. the first two teams knocked out in an eight-team double knockout would receive 7.5 points apiece, rather than eight points for finishing seventh and seven points for finishing eighth).

• If a Member Association did not participate, even in a qualification process, they will be marked with ‘n/a’ and the calculation would not include that event.
• The strength of field has been simplified such that all Curling Canada operated or endorsed national curling championships are equally weighted.
• Any ties for the MA Cup, Governors’ Cup or For The Love of Curling Cup will be broken by the number of wins head to head in round-robin games over all events.