During your regular week-night curling league game, sometimes your imagination can drift into fantasy as you visualize making a big shot at the Brier or the Scotties.

Now you have the chance to curl alongside four curlers who have been there and done that. Six-time Brier and four-time World champion Randy Ferbey was at the Moose Jaw Ford Curling Centre to promote the second year of the Everest-Ferbey National Pro-Am.

“Last year was a highly successful event that we ran in conjunction with Canadian Seniors Championship in Edmonton,” said Ferbey. “We have four winners from across Canada to play a game against myself, Jennifer Jones, Brent Laing and Brad Jacobs.”

The contest is open to curlers over the age of 50 and you can enter at the Moose Jaw Ford Curling Centre each week leading up to the draw on Feb. 26.

One winner from four regions – British Columbia, Western Canada, Ontario and Eastern Canada will be selected to travel to the Canadian Senior Curling Championship in Digby, Nova Scotia.

“Our event is run between the semifinal and final on the Sunday afternoon in the arena,” said Ferbey. “We fly in the winners from across Canada with them and their spouses, it's a first class trip for them.

“This is an opportunity to play against gold medallists and world champions and you don't get that in very many sports where you can do that. This is a great opportunity to just to have the opportunity.”

Ferbey has been retired from competitive curling for four years now, but still curls in a recreational league in Edmonton. He said he doesn't get out nearly as much as he would like however.

“I play in a mixed league on Friday night and a Tuesday men's league, but the job that I've done this year has taken me away from curling, so the team doesn't like that,” he said.

“In the beginning it was tough to be out of the game, the first time I watched on TV, I thought I could still compete with those guys... I love watching the game, but I don't miss the preparation and travel to get to these events.”

While still a big fan of the game, Ferbey doesn't agree with the direction that the sport has went over the past few years. He said it's getting “scary” how much effort teams need to put in to be competitive.

“It's getting too competitive quite frankly,” he said. “A lot of provinces are struggling with teams entering the playdowns, every province has their two, three, or four teams that are putting the time and effort into it and the rest of the teams can't keep up. We've got to worry about it a little bit because every province right across Canada.”

Ferbey added that the senior game remains strong across the country and that's why they wanted to focus on them with this contest.

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