Roy Blair Draft
Tuesday, April 13th
Curl with a celebrity skip and enjoy the chance of participating in a Calcutta in mid-April. In the Roy Blair participants declare what position they would like to play. Then a draft night is held where players are called up by positions (leads go first) and choose which skip they wish to play for. A few days after the draft night each team plays in a number of truncated games in a "points" bonspiel format. The winning rink is the one that accumulates the most points after the Blair is done.
Roy Blair represented the spirit of the Ottawa in that he was a great curler but also wanted every one, no matter what their skill level, to participate. His life ended early in a tragic drowning accident ion in 1977.