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Update for 2019!Chicken posted:National/International Powershift posted:There's also: Given the interest after the Olympics last year, I thought it would be nice to have a little fireside chat thread about curling again.  This can be a game-day thread for your various tournaments, or a place to talk about the mixed night beginner's league you joined with your grandma at the rink down the road. Anything and everything curling related is more than welcome here. The Pinty's grand slam of curling is one of the major league event series up here in Canada. Princess Auto Elite 10 Sept. 26-30, 2018 St. Clair Campus Arena Chatham, Ont. Masters Oct. 23-28, 2018 Rath Eastlink Arena Truro, N.S. Tour Challenge Nov. 6-11, 2018 Tournament CentreThunder Bay, Ont. Boost National Dec. 11-16, 2018 Conception Bay South Arena Conception Bay South, N.L. Meridian Canadian Open Jan. 8-13, 2019 Civic Centre North Battleford, Sask. Players’ Championship April 9-14, 2019 Ryerson’s Mattamy Athletic CentreToronto, Ont. Humpty’s Champions Cup April 23-28, 2019 Merlis Belsher Place Saskatoon, Sask. The main men's event (whenever there isn't an Olympics going on somewhere ((and sometimes even when there is))) is the vaunted ~*Brier*~ https://www.curling.ca/2019brier/ March 2-10, 2019  The main even for Ladies is the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. https://www.curling.ca/2019scotties/ February 16-24, 2019  So let's talk about Chess on Ice! I'm playing in two leagues this year, last year was my first time and I caught the fever bad, I've never been into team sports as a participant, but the pacing, the strategy and the tradition just clicked for me. 
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Played our first game tonight. Skip was out of town, so as the 'most experienced curler' with one whole year of playing lead (lol) I did it for our team. Got our asses handed to us 13-2, but it was a fun time, and we put up points in the first two ends. I made a couple decent shots, and so did my team, we sent a lot sailing through the house after missing our targets by a few centimeters. With a couple more weeks of target practice we might be ok. Weight judgements were surprisingly decent, aim was a little off but not badly, I need to learn to read the ice better so I can adjust how much ice to give the guys. Anyone else playing in a league this year?
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Sep 25, 2018 06:49
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Second night of men's league last night, lost 9-3, but we were in it for 4 ends this time instead of just 2. Nice steady improvement, team is coming together. Plus that's not too bad for a bunch of rookies and one older fellow who hasn't played in 20 years. First night of the Friday late night mixed league was fun, my team barely won that one by a single rock. Five rock rule I think will have strategies developed over the year. I don't have much advice beyond "Build a Wall" and see if you can score behind it. You can get some serious blockage going there.
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Oct 2, 2018 21:27
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Slipped on some debris on the ice a couple weeks back, landed on my elbow and hosed up my shoulder. Rehabbing that has been a bitch but I'm starting to feel normal again. Curling season going pretty well, feeling good about my teams' progression, men's team hasn't had much luck, but we're getting there.
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Oct 22, 2018 23:52
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My men's team finally won a game the other week. We've been getting way better, losing by one or two instead of getting blown out. Happy with the progress! There's a Grand slam event on this week, caught a little of einarson's game, seems like they're doing ok even if they're not winning all the time.
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Dec 14, 2018 00:55
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Chicken posted:Went to a bonspiel this weekend and got destroyed by a team skipped by an 82 year old. He then proceeded to outdrink us afterwards. Sounds about right, plenty of those old timers are hardcore. My men's night rink is getting better, my shoulder is loving destroyed from a fall I took on the ice so I'm playing at maybe 50% sweeping capacity, which sucks, but hopefully I can get it fixed and rehab it for next year.
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Jan 18, 2019 00:37
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Anyone else watching the all Star skins games in Banff? This Koe/carruthers game is intense. Ben Hebert is my spirit animal.
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Feb 2, 2019 23:13
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Man this Ellerslie curling club is run by a bunch of whiny bitches. Still though, nice to watch the alberta playdowns when it's -30C outside and just enjoy it.
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Feb 11, 2019 01:19
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Powershift posted:Jones getting crushed by PEI and it's great. New Brunswick is doing well against Jones as well, I hope this continues. Jones is a great curler but I want to see someone else win for once.
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Feb 19, 2019 01:25
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Yeah they just put the stats up, Jones is only curling 50%, JFC.
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Feb 19, 2019 03:01
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Chicken posted:Going to extra ends! Way more exciting game now. Yeah holy poo poo this is tense 
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Feb 25, 2019 02:10
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FrenzyTheKillbot posted:So about 6 months ago I started dating a girl who has been curling for a few years. It's something I've always wanted to try so, as a date, she arranged to bring me out to give it a shot. I enjoyed it so much that I pretty much immediately signed up for the beginner's league and have been out once a week since the start of January. It's great stuff and I'm glad this thread exists. Same thing happened to me, we ended up getting married. I actually curled against the wife's team last night in our friday night league, they killed us 9-5 or 10-6 (I can't remember if we put up all the points towards the end) but that's better than last year when they beat us like 16-2 or something.
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Mar 2, 2019 18:28
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gret posted:Yay Bottcher! I don't know why exactly being a casual curling fan in the U.S., but I like that team. They're an underdog, they lost their provincial playdowns but had enough points to get into the wild card play off and really earned their way in. It's not hard to cheer for those guys. Plus the third is hilarious, he's got a ton of personality.
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Mar 4, 2019 07:19
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Powershift posted:This has been the best brier in a while, the 4 top teams basically all at their best. I'd like to see Botcher win it. I am 100% ok with either of these teams winning. These guys played their asses off all week.
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Mar 11, 2019 01:55
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That was a low scoring game but JFC it was entertaining.
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Mar 11, 2019 05:19
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My wife has seen the Korean team practice at her rink in Calgary a couple times. She says they're scary good.
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Mar 25, 2019 03:17
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FrenzyTheKillbot posted:It's curling time again! So here's a question that I've been waiting to ask since basically last spring. Shouldn't the thread title be "Let he who is without hammer cast the first rock"? Agreed. Someone PM our mod please. I started curling in my men's league in September, been busy af though so I haven't posted about it. Doing better this year, shoulder's still hosed but I'm making my way through. Someone want to aggregate the curling tourney dates and I will update the op?
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Oct 18, 2019 17:20
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Thanks for doing the research for me guys, OP updated. Played tonight, won 10-6, but it was hard work, I swept the ice flat.
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Oct 22, 2019 06:48
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This Canada cup final is pretty entertaining. Also my Friday night league team asked me to skip because my normal 3rd and skip have just been having an awful time lately. I usually play lead so you know they're desperate. End 1: losing 3-0 End 2: losing 4-0 End 3: losing 6-0 End 4: losing 6-5 (finally get a break on a good shot) End 5: winning 6-8 End 6: winning 6-9 End 7: won 7-9 Hell yeah, first time skipping a whole game properly 
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Dec 2, 2019 02:34
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Is it bad I want the wild card to lose only because Jones' kid got me and the wife sick? (We were spectating in Canmore at the mixed doubles tournament and her kid was sick and running around the club.) Is been nice to watch the Scotties as I rehab my shoulder, since I'm out for the rest of the season.
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Feb 22, 2020 05:26
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Holy poo poo that was a hell of a finish for the Scotties. Well done ladies.
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Feb 24, 2020 04:24
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What happened? I missed whatever you're taking about. This final is sad, Botcher played great all week and he's falling apart, poor guy.
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Mar 9, 2020 01:08
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Yeah they played really well. Alberta, not so much. Poor loving guys, Moulding looked absolutely despondent 
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Mar 9, 2020 03:01
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I would love to curl this year now that my shoulder is repaired. But I am foregoing it because of covid. I'm hoping to work from home for as long as possible because I have elevated risk due to asthma, so it's only appropriate that I not engage in my favourite winter sport for the same reason. Please keep us all up to date with how your experience changes through the season, I wish to live vicariously through you folks who are playing.
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Oct 16, 2020 16:02
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Powershift posted:The scotties are on. I really missed curling. Same here buddy. This winter has been ok, but I really miss going to the rink.
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Feb 21, 2021 03:50
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Happy curling day in Canada my friends. Really hoping einarson can pull off a victory here so Walker can move on, but it's not looking good.
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Feb 28, 2021 05:19
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I'm hoping she can catch up. Good game so far though.
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Feb 28, 2021 17:52
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Yeah holy poo poo that was incredible to watch. This match with Einarson is going to be rough, off to a good start.
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Feb 28, 2021 20:59
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Qwijib0 posted:Brutal 6th for Alberta Yeah, could have been a lot worse though. 
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Feb 28, 2021 22:27
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gret posted:drat now this is getting exciting. Entertaining as all get out.
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Mar 1, 2021 05:14
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Yeah that was a lot of fun, great to watch some new curling on tv.
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Mar 1, 2021 05:29
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Qwijib0 posted:Waiting with bated breath to see if the eye on the hog equipment shows up. Yeah what's the story on that? I totally missed why they weren't using the electronic sensors this time. Were they stuck in transit or something?
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Mar 1, 2021 18:28
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That's crazy. They should absolutely be able to reuse them. Maybe they donate last year's models to some random club at the end of the pro season. I think they do that with a lot of their equipment.
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Mar 2, 2021 16:07
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Qwijib0 posted:Scott Macdonald just killed it, that whole game was a journey. Unbelievable skip stones in the last couple ends fighting the clock. GG Nova Scotia Yeah, his third owed the whole team a couple rounds of beer after his stones. Nice to see the skip pull that one out of a disaster. Tonight's gunlaugson game is full of fun technical shots. This manitoba team is gonna go far.
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Mar 10, 2021 03:48
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At the same time these two teams are, what, 4-1 and 4-0? They're at, or close to, the top of the field.
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Mar 10, 2021 04:01
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Qwijib0 posted:WC Howard's Tim March is a hell of a sweeper Yeah that was some fancy footwork there.
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Mar 12, 2021 05:24
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They was an amazing shot to win it. Moulding is such a proud curling dad.
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Mar 12, 2021 06:17
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Way to go Bottcher!
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Mar 12, 2021 23:45
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He's a nice dude and his team is a lot of fun to watch. His third has a great personality. A lot of us (not all) are from alberta so we've seen them play a fair amount. It's just a familiarity thing.
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Mar 13, 2021 03:24
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Well done Bottcher, I am super happy for those guys. Karick Martin was super emotional, and I would be too if I were him. Nice to see. Koe's team looked dejected badly in the entire second half. I feel bad for them
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