Team Signup

When? 1/28/27, 8:00 AM until 1/31/27, 8:00 PM

The 2027 Furthest North 5 & Under Bonspiel is scheduled for January 28-31, 2027! We have extended this spiel to Thur-Sun to spread out games and give travelling teams opportunities to explore Alaska between matches.

Please contact Dave @ david@curlfairbanks.org with any 5U related questions or to be placed on our 'anticipated participant' list.

Registration update:

Saturday, October 24th at noon AK time: Registration open for Alaska-based teams. We will close this registration period at 11:59pm on Saturday.

Sunday, October 25th at noon AK time: Registration open for ALL teams

We are allowing Alaska-based teams to register a day early for this spiel due to the difficulty that local teams face with traveling out of state for other qualifier bonspiels throughout the country. If a non-Alaskan team registers on Saturday, we will remove that team and kindly ask them to try again on Sunday.

Cost: $500/team

Registration cost includes:

5-game guarantee, several meals, discounted merch, and other extras!

We will be live-streaming games on our FCC Youtube Channel! Links will be shared before the event.

Furthest North 5 & Under Bonspiel Format:

• Timed games following USA Curling/WCF Timing rules (30 min of 'Thinking Time' for each team)

• 'No Tick Rule' in effect

• LSD shots before each game - to determine hammer in first end of the game and count towards DSC scores (tiebreakers in pool play)

• No broomhead restrictions ("legal" broom head covers are mandatory at National Championship events)

• Round Robin play with pools determined by peer seeding process
  
  

Anticipated Schedule:

Thursday:

Morning: All-team meeting + brunch

Afternoon: Practice sessions.

Evening: Draw #1 and #2

Friday:

All day: Round robin games

Evening: Dinner TBD

Saturday:

All day: Round robin games

Evening: Alaskan Potluck dinner (Free for curlers!)

Sunday:

Morning: Quarterfinals

Afternoon: Semifinals and Finals (finals may start as late as 6pm -this is TBD)

The winning team of the Furthest North 5U will earn a spot at the 5 & Under National Championships that will be held in May 2027 in Las Vegas!

How Much? $9,999.00

Maximum Participants / Teams: 0