Trips to the 2017 Winter Universiade in Almaty, Kazakhstan, will be on the line when Canada香蕉视频直播檚 best university curling teams gather in Kelowna for the 2016 CIS/Curling Canada Canadian University Curling Championships.

The championships, beginning Sunday, will be staged March 20 to 23 at the it was announced jointly today by Curling Canada and Canadian Interuniversity Sport.

The winning teams will represent Canada at the 2017 Winter Universiade, scheduled for Jan. 28 to Feb. 8 in Almaty.

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The teams play a round robin ending Tuesday evening, with the top four finishers qualifying for the semifinals pitting 1 vs. 4 and 2 vs. 3 on Wednesday morning at 9:30 a.m. The winners then advance to their respective finals in the afternoon at 2:30 p.m. local (PT), while the losers meet in bronze-medal games at the same time.

It will be the ninth edition of the CIS/Curling Canada university nationals, and it will be the first time the event has been staged in Kelowna. It香蕉视频直播檚 the second time the championships have been decided in B.C. after Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops hosted in 2013.

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