Dundas Valley Open League News

WELCOME HOME!

Hello and welcome to the 2026-27 DV Open League Season! We have a substantial number of new faces to the league this season, so I wanted to take a minute and review a handful of things before jumping into the email.

You'll find the detailed rules and format information on the website but, in short, this is an open, all-skill levels ladder league that runs a 20 week regular season (broken into four 5-week series) followed by a 3-5 game playoff series. We have prize money for series winners, regular season champions, and playoff finalists/winners that can total into the tens (and, on occasion, hundreds) of dollars!

The league is informally split into two days, with C and D Flights playing on Wednesdays, and A and B Flights on Thursdays. Draws are balanced between early and late draws as much as possible, with only a teeeeeny bit of favouritism towards the higher flights in the Playoffs.

 New for 2026-27  Club-wide: The act of the winning team buying drinks for the losing team has been formally cast into the bygone era (where it belongs). For those curling traditionalists out there, fear not, as losing will continue to carry its traditional consequences: shame, disappointment, and now, a bar tab.

// LEAGUE WEBSITE / COMMUNICATION - https://dundas.itscurling.com

All league information (day-to-day communication, rules, schedules, standings, records/stats... there is a LOT) is delivered via the website. It has been completely rebuilt this year, so lots of new features are available - a great place to start is by checking out my self-congratulatory post for more detailed information on the changes!

// CONVENER / GAME RESULTS

Kris Blonski / krisblonski+dundas@gmail.com / 905-977-8101 (Text Preferred)

With this being a multi-day league, please submit winners and final scores via text message or email ASAP. The website now supports full line scores so if you'd like to keep track please send me a photo of the scoreboard, along with final scores and which team was which!

// TEAM ROSTERS

Please review your rosters on the website for accuracy as they are the source of truth for all eligibility requirements. If you'd prefer to go by a different name, or if your skip butchered the spelling of your name in a way you never knew possible, let me know and I'll update your information.

// SEASON SCHEDULE

Season Start: Oct 21-22

Holiday Break: Dec 23 - Jan 1

Playoffs Round Robin: Mar 24 - April 7

Playoff Semis and Finals: April 14 (Semis), April 15 (Finals)

End of Season Party / Awards: April 29

Series 1 schedules will be posted by the weekend prior to the start of the season to leave room for late signups to join the league. 

 Open League Saturday  Feb 27, 2027: Mark your calendars - we have a tightened schedule this season, so there is a high likelihood we will have one all-flights Saturday.

// FREE AGENTS

We have a number of Free Agents looking for a team this season if you're looking to bolster your team. Please reach out to me if you're looking.

That should be everything for now. If you have questions absolutely feel free to contact me and I'll be happy to help!

Good luck, good curling, and I'll see you all in-person on October 21st and 22nd!

I've been rebuilding the website from the ground up and it's finally ready to launch, just in time for this season!

While the general look and feel of the site remains "close enough" to the previous site, the underlying code has been entirely rebuild which means we can finally squeeze even more statistics out of this thing. New features this year are:

1. Franchises - A team's identity and name are no longer the same thing. Teams can rename themselves each season whether its for a new sponsor, giving someone else a chance at skip, or someone thought of an even more sexually-laden curling pun, without losing that sweet historical data.
2. Cancellation / Reschedule Alerts - A cancelled or league-rescheduled game now brings up a site-wide banner highlighting the situation, rather than forcing you to check your email or only look at the news.
3. Full Line Scores - Perfect for those teams looking to improve, or for teams curious to see how many 4-enders they score a season, a game's result can now be entirely recorded end-by-end. Once the database populates I'll unleash a new wave of stats to drool over.
4. Complete Historical Data Ingest / Integration - While previously the website simply included final season results, now each individual game has been added to our database from 1997-2009. Playoffs (at least the ones that were written down) were also added! Our legacy Club Champions from 1974-1997 also got properly added, meaning that you'll see their names in finally appear in many of our lifetime results. Additionally, all historical information is available on any page - just simply filter by season and be immediately transported back in time. With all this information added, you're going to see changes in our lifetime records. Go check them out!
5. New Pages - League Facts / Trivia (closest finishes, biggest runaways, longest rivalries, and so much more), Turbo Nerd: Team v Team and Player v Player. etc
6. Speed - This site is FAST. Want to see the rankings of all players from over 8000 league games? Loads instantly - no more waiting literally 10-15 seconds for the site to re-calculate the information again and again and again.

I could go on but there's just so many small adjustments that you'll need to find for yourself. Enjoy!

It's Early Registration Time!

Sign-up Form: DV Open League 2026-27 Entry Form (Varsity Teams should contact Rob Matheson / me directly)

You can register your team (please, only one entry per team, I beg you), as a league-wide spare, or you can register as a free-agent and I'll put you in contact with other like-minded players or teams looking to bolster their full time rosters with your incredible talent!

If you've previously emailed me about submitting a team, or volunteered yourself as a free-agent this summer, please resubmit your name into the above form.

It's first come first serve, so get those entries in quickly!

Important Dates

Open House: September 24th, 2025 @ 7PM