The competition is set to welcome 26 men's teams and 20 women's teams, who will be taking part in the event's various A and B divisions.

Round robin play will begin tomorrow and continue throughout the week.

Tie-breakers, if required, as well as semi-finals, challenge and medal games, will then take place between November 24 and 26.

The women’s and men’s gold medal games, in the A-division, bring the competition to a close on November 26.

Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Russia, hosts Scotland and Switzerland will all be competing in the men's Division A competition alongside the Swedes.

The reigning champions  are represented by the same team, skipped by Niklas Edin, that won last year’s title in Esjberg in Denmark while last year’s bronze medallists Norway are once again led by Thomas Ulsrud.

If Norway medal this year, it will be the tenth time in a row they will have made it onto the podium.

Meanwhile, last year's runners up Switzerland have selected the same quartet which took silver last year after they lost to Sweden in the final following a nervy contest which was decided after an extra end.

The Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Scotland, Sweden and Switzerland will be trying to dethrone the Russians in the women's A competition.

Russia have made wholesale changes and are now represented by a new team, skipped by Victoria Moiseeva.

Scotland lost last year’s final but the host nation is once again led by Olympic bronze medallist Eve Muirhead, with a slightly-changed team that includes Lauren Gray, who was Muirhead's Sochi 2014 Olympic alternate.

From the A-Division, eight men’s teams will qualify for the World Men’s Curling Championship, scheduled to be held in Edmonton in Canada between April 1 and 9 next year. 

The eight best women’s teams will go on to secure their places at the World Women’s Curling Championship scheduled in the Chinese capital of Beijing between March 18 and 26.

Those events will be the last World Curling Championships where Olympic qualification points will be available ahead of Pyeongchang 2018.

Meanwhile, for the teams in the respective B-divisions, the winners of each tournament will go on to challenge the teams that rank eighth in the A-division in a best-of-three series to decide who advances to the respective World Curling Championships.