Nations may qualify teams by earning qualification points from performances at the 2012 and 2013 World Curling Championships.
The qualification event was open to any nations that earned qualification points at the 2012 or 2013 World Curling Championships (as listed above) or participated at the 2011 World Curling Championships (the South Korea men's team and the Norway women's team).
In later years, he was part of Bill Muirhead's rink from St. Martin's CC in Perth who won the silver medal in the 1976 World Curling Championships.
Glenn Howard - Curler for Team Ontario, 2007 Brier Winner, and 2007 World Curling Champion for Team Canada
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The 1971 Air Canada Silver Broom, the men's world curling championship, was held from March 16 to 21 at the Palais de Sports in Megève, France.
The 1978 Air Canada Silver Broom, the men's world curling championship, was held from March 27 - April 2 at the Winnipeg Arena in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
The 1981 Royal Bank of Scotland World Women's Curling Championship, the women's world curling championship, was held from March 16-21 at the Perth Ice Arena in Perth, Scotland.
The 1984 World Women's Curling Championship, the women's world curling championship, was held from March 25-30 at the Perth Ice Arena in Perth, Scotland.
The 1985 Air Canada Silver Broom, the men's world curling championship, was held from March 25-31 at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow, Scotland.
The 2014 Ford World Women's Curling Championship will be held from March 15 to 23 at the Harbour Station in Saint John, New Brunswick.
It was caused by an incident at the finals of the 1972 world men's curling championship, the 1972 Air Canada Silver Broom in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
The match between Kelly Scott, who at the time was the reigning Canadian women's champion and went on to become a world champion, and Cathy King a former world bronze medalist.
She has also played in four World Curling Championships, winning a bronze in 2007 as the alternate for Scotland (skipped by Kelly Wood).
A secondary "curse", if interpreted in this way, is that a North Dakotan rink did not represent the United States again in the World Curling Championships until 1997, when Craig Disher of Langdon represented the United States.
Curt Jonsson was the third man on the Åredalens CK curling team (from Åre, Sweden) during the 1963 World Curling Championships known as the Scotch Cup.