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The Scotties Tournament of Hearts ('' Canadian Women 's Curling championship, sanctioned by the Canadian Curling Association . The winner goes on to represent Canada at the women's World Curling Championships . Since 1986, the winner also gets to return to the following years' tournament as "Team Canada". It is formally known as the ''Canadian Women's Curling Championship''. Kruger Products , previously known as Scott Paper Limited, is the event Sponsor . The tournament had been known as the Scott Tournament of Hearts since 1982. However, in June 2007, competitor Kimberly-Clark (which purchased the Scott Paper Company , the Canadian firm's former parent, in 1997) will gain full Canadian control of the Scott name and certain associated brands. Facial tissue brand Scotties is an exception - that licence will continue indefinitely, due to the American company's prior ownership of the Kleenex brand, so the event has been rebranded with the Scotties brand. The name change was announced shortly after the 2006 event. {Link without Title} The format is a round robin of 12 teams. There is one team from each of the provinces and one team from the territories. As this only makes 11 teams, the 12th team is made up of the previous year's winning team. This differs slightly from the men's annual Brier tournament where the 12th team comes from Northern Ontario. The teams are the provincial champions of the province the represent. At the end of the round-robin, a playoffs occur to determine the championship. The system used is known as the Page Playoff System . HISTORY Pre-history 1913 marked a significant point in women's curling when both the Manitoba Bonspiel and the Ontario Curling Association began with having women's curling events. Other provinces would later add provincial women's championships, but it wasn't until the 1950s that a higher level of women's curling began to occur. At this time there was a Western Canada Women's Championship (sponsored by the T. Eaton Company ) but no tournament existed for the eastern provinces. By 1959, Eaton's pulled their sponsorship, giving an opportunity for the organizers of the Western championships the initiative to have a national championship. In 1960, the Canadian Ladies' Curling Association was created with Dominion Stores Ltd. seeking to sponsor a national championship. That year, an eastern championship occurred so that the winner could play the winner of the western championship. In this event, Ruth Smith and her team from Lacolle, Quebec faced off against Joyce McKee 's team from Saskatchewan (consisting of Sylvia Fedoruk , Donna Belding and Muriel Cobing ) with McKee winning. The game between the two teams was played in Oshawa, Ontario . The following year a tournament was organized with the same format as The Brier and was held in Ottawa . McKee won again, with a new front end of Barbara MacNevin and Rosa McFee . Early history In 1967, Dominion Stores were unable to reach a compromise with the organizers of the tournament, and their sponsorship fell. The Canadian Ladies' Curling Association ran the tournament by themselves with no sponsorhip. Sylvia Fedoruk , after assuming the presidency of the Canadian Ladies' Curling Association found a sponsor in the Macdonald Tobacco Company , the same sponsor as the Brier. Their sponsorship began in 1972 with the tournament being called the "Macdonald Lassie" championship, after the company's trademark. In 1979, under increasing pressure from the anti-tobacco policies of the Canadian Government , the Macdonald Tobacco Company pulled their sponsorship from both the Brier and the Women's championship. The Canadian Ladies' Curling Association ran the tournament without a sponshorship again for the next couple of years. 1979 also marked the first year of the Women's World Curling Championship , where the national champion would play. Tournament of Hearts Robin Wilson , a member of the 1979 championship team, and a former employee of Scott Paper led an effort to get the company to sponsor the championships. It was successful, and in 1982 the first Scott Tournament of Hearts was held. The Scott Tournament of Hearts would last 25 years, and saw the likes of many great teams. The first Tournament of Hearts was won by Colleen Jones and her Nova Scotia team. It would take her 18 years to win another, but she would cap it off with another four championships for a grand total of six championships. Other great curlers at the Hearts have been Connie Laliberte of Manitoba, Heather Houston and Marilyn Bodogh of Ontario , and Sandra Schmirler of Saskatchewan. The new sponsorship made the tournament popular when it began to be televised. Today, TSN covers most of the tournament while the CBC covers the semi-finals and the finals. =Winners= DIAMOND D CHAMPIONSHIP CANADIAN LADIES CURLING ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIP MACDONALD LASSIES CHAMPIONSHIP CANADIAN LADIES CURLING ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIP SCOTT TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS SCOTTIES TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS ''See also:'' List Of World Curling Women's Champions AWARD WINNERS Sandra Schmirler Most Valuable Player Award
Shot of the Week Award
Marj Mitchell Sportsmanship Award
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