Rock League Season 2 – Utica

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January 28, 2027
Event date:
January 31, 2027
Event end:

Pro team curling comes to upstate New York

Rock League Season 2 – Utica runs from January 28 to 31, 2027 and is the second regular-season stop of the professional league’s second campaign. Rock League is operated by The Curling Group, owners of the Grand Slam of Curling, and pits six franchises of world-class men and women against each other in a fast team format. Results in Utica count towards the standings that decide the four playoff places for the Championship Weekend in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in April.

Format and teams

Each franchise carries five men and five women. The six clubs are Maple United and Shield Curling Club (Canada), Alpine Curling Club and Northern United (Europe), Frontier Curling Club (USA) and Typhoon Curling Club (Asia-Pacific). First-season captains included Rachel Homan, Brad Jacobs, Alina Pätz, Bruce Mouat, Korey Dropkin and Chinami Yoshida; the Season 2 rosters have not yet been released.

In the inaugural season, every match featured three simultaneous games – men’s, women’s and mixed doubles – with one point for winning the match and a half-point bonus for sweeping all three. Games are short and sharp: seven ends for four-player games, eight for mixed doubles, and a draw to the button to settle any tie. Shield Curling Club, led by Brad Jacobs, won the first title in Toronto and arrive as defending league champions.

Dates: January 28–31, 2027
Stop: 2nd of four regular-season events (after Moose Jaw, before Ottawa and Red Deer)
Defending champions: Shield Curling Club

Host city and venue

The four days of play take place at NBT Bank Arena, the arena at the Utica Memorial Auditorium previously known as the Adirondack Bank Center, which seats around 4,000. Utica was named as one of the league’s original Season 2 hosts and is the only American city on the regular-season calendar, giving U.S. fans their closest look at the league before the finale in Michigan.

Tickets

Ticket packages and prices for the Utica stop had not been published when the event was announced; sales details will be released by the league and the arena.