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The 2016 United States Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from December 2-7, 2015 at the Denver Curling Club in Denver, Colorado.^[1][2] Jason Smith and Jessica Schultz, both from Minnesota, won the tournament.^[3] The champions, along with the silver and bronze medal winners, earned a spot in the United States Mixed Doubles World Trials in February 2016, where the U.S. representative for the 2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Karlstad, Sweden was decided.^[4][5]

Twenty nine teams qualified to compete in the championship.^[2][6][7]

Female	Male	State(s)
Taylor Anderson	Alex Fenson	Minnesota
Danielle Buchbinder	Michael Rupp	New York
Cristin Clark	Brady Clark	Washington
Stephanie Senneker	Bret Jackson	Michigan
Christon Clark	Logan Tingley	Indiana,  Ohio
Becca Wood	Brett Davis	Colorado
Frances Walsh	Stephen Grant	Washington
Emily Good	MacAllan Guy	Washington
Jessica Schultz	Jason Smith	Minnesota
Keri VanNorman	Cameron Kim	California
Dena Rosenberry	Darrick Kizlyk	Colorado
Tracy Heuermann	Ron Kloth	Arizona
Alexandra Carlson	Alex Leichter	Minnesota,  Massachusetts
Jenny Levy	Ben Levy	Michigan
Kathy Jackson	Murray Jackson	North Carolina
Jillian Walker	Derrick McLean	Washington
Nina Roth	Kroy Nernberger	Wisconsin
Teri Olson	Scott Olson	Massachusetts
Kelsey Ostrowski	Gary Mazzotta	Minnesota
Catharine Persinger	Greg Persinger	Alaska
Allison Pottinger	Doug Pottinger	Minnesota
Cynthia Smith	Matthew Culbertson	Colorado
Elaine Smith-Koop	Joshua Engle	Oregon
Maureen Stolt	Peter Stolt	Minnesota
Larissa Unruh	Samuel Unruh	North Dakota
Nicole Vassar	Sam Williams	Massachusetts
Monica Walker	Sean Beighton	Massachusetts,  Washington
Sarah Thuriot	Doug Weimerskirch	Minnesota
Stephanie Martin	Dan Wiza	Illinois,  Wisconsin

Instead of the usual round robin group play leading into playoffs, the 2016 Championship was structured with three tiers of brackets to create a triple elimination tournament. All 29 teams began in the A event bracket, if they lost they moved down to the B event bracket and if they lost again they moved to the C event bracket. If a team lost a game in the C event they were eliminated from the tournament. The winners of the A and B brackets played for the championship. However, all three bracket winners qualified for the US World Trials to compete to represent the United States at the 2016 World Mixed Doubles Championship. ^[8]

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The winners of the A and B brackets played for the championship.

Monday, December 7, 11:00 am MT^[10]

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Smith/Schultz	0	3	3	1	1	0	1	X	9
Pottinger/Pottinger	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	X	3