The local Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member, Lakeland PBS, covered the tournament. This included streaming the entire tournament and broadcasting the semifinals and finals live on the television channel.[8]
Qualification
There were five ways teams qualified for the championship:[4]
Highest finishing American teams at Colorado Curling Cup and Madtown DoubleDown (mixed doubles bonspiels in Denver, Colorado and Madison, Wisconsin, respectively)
Sixteen teams played at the 2020 United States Mixed Doubles Challenge Round, held in Portage, Wisconsin from December 19 to 22, 2019.[14] Through a triple knockout competition the top three teams secured the final team spots at the Mixed Doubles Championship.[15] Monica Walker and Alex Leichter were the first to clinch a championship berth when they defeated Katherine Gourianova and Eli Clawson in the 'A' bracket final.[16] Gourianova and Clawson then dropped down to the 'B' bracket final where they had another opportunity to earn one of the final two berths, which they did when they defeated Becca Wood and Sean Franey.[17] Wood and Franey then faced Kim Rhyme and Jason Smith in the 'C' bracket final for the third and final championship berth, which Rhyme and Smith secured with a 9-4 win.[18]
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^"2021 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship begins Monday". USA Curling. May 14, 2021. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
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^"Mixed Doubles Challenge Round begins Thursday in Portage". USA Curling. Dec 16, 2019. Archived from the original on December 19, 2019. Retrieved Dec 19, 2019.
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^"Qualified Teams". Bemidji Curling Club. Archived from the original on August 8, 2020. Retrieved Dec 20, 2019.