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The Green Bay Cash Spiel is an annual bonspiel

Bonspiel

A bonspiel is a curling tournament, traditionally held outdoors on a frozen freshwater loch. The word comes from the Scottish Gaelic and means league match . Though not mandatory, curling teams involved in bonspiels often wear theme costumes...

, or curling

Curling

Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...

tournament, that takes place at the Green Bay Curling Club in Green Bay

Green Bay, Wisconsin

Green Bay is a city in and the county seat of Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, located at the head of Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It has an elevation of above sea level and is located north of Milwaukee. As of the 2010 United States Census,...

, Wisconsin

Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

. The tournament is held in a triple-knockout format. The tournament was established in 2011 as a part of the World Curling Tour

World Curling Tour

The Asham World Curling Tour is a group of curling bonspiels featuring the best male curlers in the world. A Women's World Curling Tour also exists....

, the Ontario Curling Tour, and the Great Lakes Curling Tour.

Past champions

Only skip's name is displayed.

Year	Winning team	Runner up team	Purse (USD)
2011 2011 Green Bay Cash Spiel The 2011 Green Bay Cash Spiel was held from September 23 to 25 at the Green Bay Curling Club in Green Bay, Wisconsin as part of the 2011–12 World Curling Tour.-Teams:-A Event:-B Event:-C Event:-Playoffs:...	Liu Rui Liu Rui Liu Rui is a Chinese curler.After a slow start in the 2009 World Men's Curling Championship, Liu switched to throw 4th stones while Fengchun Wang continued to call the game and throw 3rd stones.-Teams:...	Mike Farbelow Mike Farbelow Mike Farbelow is an American curler who was skip of the silver medal-winning rink at the 2010 U.S. Men's Championships, where they lost the gold medal match to the rink led by Pete Fenson, who picked up his sixth title . It was Farbelow's fourth trip to the U.S...	$10,600

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