By Mike Haggerty
This is the largest championship event on the international calendar, with 51 teams from 30 nations competing in two venues, the Linx Ice Arena and Curl Aberdeen facility. It is the first major competition to be held in the home of the sport since the 2005 Women's World Championship.
As well as being current world champion, Scotland's David Murdoch is also European champion and he starts his defence of a title he has won in the last two years, and three times overall, this morning against Sweden's Niklas Edin. Murdoch and his team – third Ewan MacDonald, second Pete Smith, lead Euan Byers and alternate Graeme Connal – then return to the ice this afternoon to face Thomas Dufour of France.
Among Murdoch's other "A" division rivals are Norway's Thomas Ulsrud, losing finalist in the last two European championships, and Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland, Czech Republic, Finland and Italy.
A further 20 men's teams are involved in the "B" division, which has been divided into two further sections. One of these sees Bulgaria, England, Estonia, Greece, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Serbia and Spain compete. The other involves Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Croatia, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Slovakia and Wales.
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