World Financial Group

The 2012 World Financial Group Continental Cup at the Langley Events Center in Langley, British Columbia officially launched Wednesday evening with FAN Appreciation night. Fans had the opportunity to get face time with all the athletes in the competition and party to sounds of March Hare, a Vancouver, BC-based show band that plays rock, country and new music hits. But the action begins Thursday, Jan. 12 with four days of international curling competition. [More]

World Financial Group sponsored the fan favourite TSN Curling Skins Game this weekend, Jan. 7-8, from Casino Rama in Rama, ON. The annual invitational event featured four of the best curling teams in the world — current world champion Jeff Stoughton, along with Kevin Martin, Kevin Koe and Glenn Howard — skips of the last four Canadian teams to win world championships — competing for a $75,000 (CD) prize. The competition is a single-elimination format in which anything can happen, as the winner is decided by total prize money and not total points. [More]

Summer is the season in which we usually concentrate on staying cool, so what a great time to focus on the icy sport of curling. There is a little more than six months until the action begins at the 2012 World Financial Group (WFG) Continental Cup of Curling, but there’s no reason why we can’t do a WFG review on the latest news about this amazing event that features the best curlers in the world meeting vying to win one of sport’s more prestigious events. [More]