2026 Sawtooth Outdoor Bonspiel

The Boise Curling Club will be hosting the 13th edition of the Sawtooth Outdoor Bonspiel (the “S.O.B.”) in Stanley, Idaho on January 16-18, 2026. The S.O.B. is a 16-team, three-day open bonspiel with a three game guarantee held on the outdoor ice rink in Stanley. The S.O.B. will begin at 5pm on Friday and end at noon on Sunday.

Registration opens on boisecurlingclub.org starting on November 1st on this page.

For more info on the S.O.B., visit sobidaho.com. 
 

Registration Lottery

Starting in 2024, the SOB moved to a lottery system to determine entry, to provide the fairest means possible for teams to attend. Registration is open for 13 full days, from 12 noon MT on November 1st through 11pm MT on November 13th. Teams can register on this page.

All teams will be put into a Bingo machine with a corresponding number. Each entry will receive one Bingo ball. A valid entry consists of at least 3 unique curlers on a team. In the Spirit of Curling, please do not try to game the system by entering multiple times for the same team. The committee reserves the right to remove entries if tampering is evident. The committee will select all Bingo balls, forming the list of teams plus a waitlist, in order of selection.

Teams who are selected will be notified the evening of Saturday, November 15th. Positions on the waitlist will also be notified. As a team, you will have until 11:59pm MT on Wednesday, November 19th to submit payment of a team fee ($440) to reserve your spot. If your payment is not submitted, your spot will be assigned to the next team on the waitlist. Waitlist teams will also have 3 business days to submit payment.

Each team who enters the lottery and is unsuccessful in gaining an entry spot into the SOB will have additional tickets in the hat when entering their next lottery, regardless of whether it is the next year or a future year, thus improving the probability of being selected. Every lottery applicant will receive 2^(n-1) tickets in the hat for each unsuccessful attempt to gain entry where n is the number of years applied. As an example: If a team applies and is unsuccessful in gaining entry two times, they will have four tickets in the hat when entered in the lottery the third year (2^2), eight in fourth year (2^3), 16 in fifth (2^4), 32 in sixth (2^5), etc.

For carryover to future years, there must be at least two attendees that are the same from one year to the next.