Americas Challenge

Americas Challenge
Established	2009
Abolished	2021

The Americas Challenge was a curling challenge held by the World Curling Federation between teams in its Americas zone. The winner of the challenge qualified their country for the World Curling Championships, and in later years, the runner-up for the now defunct World Qualification Event. The challenge is not automatically held every year, and only takes place when a team in the Americas zone challenges the second-ranked Americas team in that year's World Curling Championship (or the first-ranked team if the second-ranked is hosting).

The challenge merged with the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships to become the Pan Continental Curling Championships in 2022.

History

The first challenge was held in 2009, with Brazil losing to the United States. Brazil again challenged and lost to the United States in 2010, 2015, and 2017. In January 2018, with the United States automatically qualifying as hosts of the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship, Brazil challenged and lost to Canada. The November 2018 challenge was the first to see more than two teams competing, with Guyana joining the challenge for the first time. In 2019, Mexico joined the challenge with Guyana not competing. United States would win again, going 4-0.

A women's event has only been held twice, in 2017 and 2019. In 2017, Brazil challenged the United States but lost. Brazil's women's team challenged the United States in November 2018, but conceded to the United States to qualify for the World Qualification Event. In 2019, Mexico joined the challenge but the United States still won going 4-0.

Champions

Year	Men		Women		Host
	Winning country	Winning team	Winning country	Winning team
2009	United States	Todd Birr, Paul Pustovar, Greg Wilson, Kevin Birr	No challenge held		Bismarck, North Dakota, United States
2010	United States	Pete Fenson, Shawn Rojeski, Joe Polo, Tyler George	No challenge held		Grafton, North Dakota, United States
2015	United States	Heath McCormick, Chris Plys, Joe Polo, Ryan Brunt, Colin Hufman	No challenge held		Blaine, Minnesota, United States
2017	United States	John Shuster, Tyler George, Matt Hamilton, John Landsteiner, Joe Polo	United States	Nina Roth, Tabitha Peterson, Aileen Geving, Becca Hamilton, Cory Christensen	Blaine, Minnesota, United States
January 2018	Canada	Glenn Howard, Adam Spencer, David Mathers, Scott Howard	No challenge held		London, Ontario, Canada
November 2018	United States	Greg Persinger (Fourth), Rich Ruohonen (Skip), Colin Hufman, Phil Tilker	No challenge held		Chaska, Minnesota, United States
2019	United States	Greg Persinger (Fourth), Rich Ruohonen (Skip), Colin Hufman, Phil Tilker, Tyler George	United States	Tabitha Peterson, Becca Hamilton, Tara Peterson, Aileen Geving, Natalie Nicholson	Eveleth, Minnesota, United States
2021	Canada	Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Brad Thiessen, Karrick Martin	No challenge held		Lacombe, Alberta, Canada