columbus blue jackets won the wild card game at the brier.
columbus blue jackets won the wild card game at the brier.
who won the wild card game at the brier?
columbus blue jackets
the ctrs standings are also used to determine the seeding of all teams in the main tournament, with one important caveat - for the purposes of seeding the round robin pools and so as to allow the main round robin schedule to be drawn up prior to the wild card game, the ranking of the top wild card team is the ranking that is used for seeding purposes regardless of who wins the game. whereas teams in the tournament of hearts and brier are traditionally referred to by their respective province or territory (other than northern ontario and team canada), the team that wins the wild card game is referred to as the "wild card" for the duration of the tournament. as is the case with team canada, the wild card retains that designation even if the team that is representing the same province or territory as the wild card team is eliminated prior to the wild card team.
wild card (sports)
even though one of the stated purposes of the wild card game was to create disadvantages for wild card teams in the postseason, wild card game winners have won six of the first twelve division series played under the new format. of the best-of-five division series lost by wild card game winners, three lost in five games, two lost in four games, and only one team has been swept. the 2014 postseason featured the first series sweeps involving wild card game winners, but they were both in favor of the al wild card kansas city royals who swept both the los angeles angels of anaheim and the baltimore orioles en route to the second world series featuring both nl and al wild card game winners, with the san francisco giants defeating the royals in seven games. the first all wild card world series also involved the giants, but they were on the losing end, losing the 2002 world series to the then anaheim angels in seven games.
major league baseball wild card game