Kamloops skip Dunstone and team wins PointsBet Invitational curling tournament
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KAMLOOPS — A Kamloops resident and his Winnipeg-based curling team exercised some demons during a successful final tune-up before the Canadian Olympics Curling Trials.
Matt Dunstone and his team won the PointsBet Invitational in Calgary Sunday (Oct. 5) night by defeating Team Brad Jacobs of Alberta in the final 6-4.
It’s Team Dunstone’s first PointsBet Invitational win after falling in the finals in 2022 and 2023. It’s also partial redemption for Dunstone after blowing a late lead to Jacobs in the 2025 Montana’s Brier final in Kelowna.
“The Brier is a different beast, so I’d give a lot of wins away to have that one. Just to play well against a great team, a team we’re going to be battling with to go to the Olympics, and to come out on top, that’s what you’ve got to do early in the season so you can feel good about it going into November,” Dunstone said in a Curling Canada news release. “We’ve won two events in a row now. We’re not playing to the level we need to yet, but we’re making a lot of good shots when we absolutely have to and there’s certainly something to be said about that. It’s a confident group and to win the Trials, you have to be confident. There’s no other way to slice that.”
