Curling World Curling Tour to make the games only eight ends. Most tournaments on that tour are eight ends, as are the vast majority of recreational games. In international competition, each side is given 73 minutes to complete all of its throws. Each team is also allowed two minute-long timeouts per 10-end game. If extra ends are required, each team is allowed 10 minutes of playing time to complete its throws and one added 60-second timeout for each extra end. However, the "thinking time" system, in which the delivering team's game timer stops as soon as the shooter's rock crosses the
Yukon/NWT Men's Curling Championship and the top two teams from each territory then play at the Yukon/NWT championship. Prior to 1975, teams in the Yukon played in the B.C. provincial playdowns and teams in the Northwest Territories played in the Alberta playdowns. <nowiki>*</nowiki> Lost tie breaker <nowiki>**</nowiki> Lost 3-4 Game to Alberta (K. Koe) and Lost Bronze Medal Game to Manitoba (Fowler) Yukon/NWT Men's Curling Championship The Yukon/NWT Men's Curling Championship was the men's curling championship that determined Team Yukon/NWT at the Tim Hortons Brier. The tournament featured teams from two of Canada's northern territories, the Northwest Territories (NWT) and the Yukon. The event