The 2014 Continental Cup of Curling was held from January 16 to 19 at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada, a suburb of Las Vegas.
This edition of the Continental Cup of Curling, sponsored by World Financial Group, was the first held outside of Canada.
Four teams from Canada earned the right to represent Team North America by virtue of winning certain events, namely the Canada Cup of Curling and the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials/Canadian National Championships (the Brier and the Tournament of Hearts).
Eve Muirhead capitalized on numerous mistakes from Jennifer Jones's rink to steal five points and secure a substantial win.
[7][8] In the mixed doubles draw, Mark Nichols and Jennifer Jones swept Niklas Edin and Christina Bertrup, stealing five points and winning the game in seven ends.
Kaitlyn Lawes made a game-winning draw to give another point to Team North America, defeating Sebastian Kraupp and Maria Prytz with her mixed doubles partner Jeff Stoughton.
[9] The United States' Jeff Isaacson and Debbie McCormick ran into some bad situations during their game and were defeated thoroughly by Christoffer Svae and Satsuki Fujisawa, who stole seven points and won with a twelve-point margin.
Brad Jacobs played Niklas Edin in a rematch of the previous year's world championship game, and scored one in the final end to take a one-point victory.
Rachel Homan scored five straight points, of which three were steals, to overcome a three-point deficit against Margaretha Sigfridsson, and John Shuster made an early steal against David Murdoch and built up a two-point lead, which he held to win the game.
Team World was the clear winner in the singles competition, sweeping all but one of the matchups to bounce out to a one-point lead in the tournament.
Emma Miskew and Ryan Fry scored multiple three-point ends against Greg Drummond and Anna Sloan to win the game, and John Shuster and Jessica Schultz won their game against Thomas Ulsrud and Miyo Ichikawa, who struggled to score and gave up nine points in steals.
On the other hand, David Murdoch and Eve Muirhead won their game to give Team World a point.
Edin's third Sebastian Kraupp left the game due to illness, and David Murdochreplaced him.
Crucial misses by Edin's team led to Stoughton scoring four in the fifth end, giving him a five-point lead which he held to win the game.
Jennifer Jones played a tight game against Satisuki Fujisawa, and they were tied going into the last end.
Niklas Edin, playing with Torger Nergård in place of his normal third Sebastian Kraupp, played a back-and-forth game with John Shuster, trading one-point skins until the final end, when Edin made a shot for the carry-over and then drew the button for the final point.
Rachel Homan and her mixed team of Jon Mead, Alison Kreviazuk, and Reid Carruthers had an advantage over Team World's Tom Brewster, Emi Shimizu, Greg Drummond, and Chiaki Matsumura, winning the first three points.