Heading for Basel

Tom Brewster, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow, and alternate David Edwards, fly out to Switzerland today to compete in the World Men's Curling Championship in Basel. Aside from Scotland, the lineup includes Switzerland, Canada, China, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Czech Republic, Germany, France and USA. The Scots' first games are on Saturday, against Pete de Boer's New Zealand side, and also Thomas Ulsrud's Norwegians.

There's a preview of the event here.

The event website for the draw and results is here. The teams are all shown here. The schedule for television and webcasts is here.