With the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 less than one year out, this event will also determine the first six qualifying National Olympic Committees within the women’s team event. The remaining teams who do not qualify are eligible to earn a place in the Olympic line-up through the Olympic Qualification Event being held in December 2021.
Starting on Friday, April 30th, the teams will play in 23 sessions of round-robin play. After that, the top six teams qualify for the play-off stage.
The teams ranked first and second will qualify directly for the semi-final games, while the third-ranked team will play the sixth-ranked team in one qualification game and the fourth-ranked team and fifth-ranked team will face each other in the other.
In the semi-finals, the first-ranked team will play the lower-ranked qualification game winners and the second-ranked team will play the other.
Qualification games will take place on Friday, May 7th and 8th. The semi-finals will also take place on Saturday, May 8th.
On Sunday, May 9th, semi-final losers will play for bronze medals and after this, the winners will play for the world title and gold and silver medals.
All games will be broadcast on World Curling TV YouTube channel, however games may be geo-blocked in accordance with broadcast partner agreements.
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