GRAND FORKS – It will be Scotland versus Canada for the 2008 World Men's Curling Championship.

Canada's Kevin Martin defeated Norway's Thomas Ulsrud 5-4 in Saturday's semi-final to qualify for a rematch with Scotland's David Murdoch in Sunday afternoon's championship final.

Martin started fast with a deuce in the first end and added another in the third for a 4-1 lead. He increased it to 5-2 in the eighth and led 5-3 coming home, and was comfortable giving the Norwegians a steal in the final end.

"You can't win if you don't get to the final," proclaimed Martin, 41. 

"So we have a shot. You know what, we'll play our damndest tomorrow. Win or lose, it won't be for lack of trying."

Martin tried to upend Scotland in Friday's Page playoff, but squandered a 6-2 lead to lose 7-6. He's also tried numerous times to win an international title for Canada, but has always come up short.

Ulsrud, who heads to saturday night's bronze medal match against China's Fengchun Wang, spoke to that kind of Canadian curling expectation.

"That's the good thing about being from Norway," said Ulsrud.

"They'll be happy with a bronze medal. It's not like being from Canada, where they just want gold."

The Canadians outshot Norway 93 to 88 in shooting percentage.

Sunday's finale will be a rematch of sorts of the 1991 Worlds final, in which a then-youthful Martin lost to two members of Murdoch's current team – equally youthful third Graeme Connal and second Peter Smith.

Numerous television groups are delivering live and tape-delayed action, plus highlight packages, to world curling fans. Eurosport, CBC/CBCSports.ca/Bold (Canada), NBCOlympics.com and WCSN (United States) and CurlTV are all on site in Grand Forks.

Live results, with linescores and shooting percentages, are available via: worldmenscurling2008.com with mirrored scores also posted at: results.worldcurling.org