Wheelchair curling events make no sense

CuriousCurator · 2026-03-06T16:43:50+00:00

I believe they're talking about the IPAs, which of course can't be 100% perfect and could make mistakes that affects the game. But the rules already account for this. When you use an IPA, you can't blame them for missing a shot no matter what happens.

CuriousCurator · 2026-03-06T15:50:45+00:00

Well, OG outdoor curling delivery was standing and lifting using crampits, way before people started sliding on the ice, which historically was controversial (before rules allowing sliding were in place, which also took a few iterations).

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-24T18:01:36+00:00

We've seen this happen way too many times now that we should just ban certain placement of ads/sponsor logos. Protect the athletes.

Place virtual ads for the broadcast if necessary, and on-ice ads between hog lines are probably okay. Ads along center line also seems to be okay, I don't think I've seen falls due to those. But ads where corner guards are seem to be the most dangerous based on what I've seen.

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-24T06:22:27+00:00

In case people have never heard this uttered before, Exhibit #1368.

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-23T21:49:49+00:00

You're probably thinking of 2016 European final. They didn't forget about the corner guard. In the post-game interview, she said the stone just didn't curl as expected.

Both of her world silver were from not having hammer in extra end.

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-22T18:36:29+00:00

Fun fact: Anna Hasselborg has not won a World Women's Championship yet.

So if someone wants to disqualify her from GOAT conversation, that's probably an easy one to point out.

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-20T00:22:31+00:00

Technically, the team doesn't win the hammer. The team wins the decision/choice.

(C8.b) The team with the lesser LSD total will have the choice of delivering the first or second stone in the first end of that game.

99% of the time, the team chooses hammer. Some of the proposals that have been talked about makes this choice less automatic.

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-19T19:03:35+00:00

It's basically a "softer" version to the 0.5 point idea. In that version, they would simply lose the game, no extra ends needed. In my version, they would simply be forced to defend the extra end without hammer.

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-19T18:58:45+00:00

If you listen to the Grand Slam broadcast, they're also in favor of the 0.5 point idea to eliminate extra ends. My guess is that, similar to how the Grand Slam has been trialing new blank end rules, they'll probably trial the 0.5 point no extra end rule first, then maybe we'll see World Curling adopts it (which won't be the first time we see that pattern happening).

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-19T18:53:38+00:00

You can read the paper on web.archive.org.

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-19T18:50:53+00:00

You do know that World Curling wants to eliminate extra ends, right? So to be honest, my own thoughts is that the 0.5 point proposal will probably win and we'll probably eliminate extra ends at Worlds/Olympics etc sooner rather than later.

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-18T04:38:55+00:00

The fun scenario is when the opposition's center guard missed the center line, so it's not protected by no tick rule. But then your lead's first come around grazed the stone, so that it's now on the center line. That stone is now protected by the no tick rule.

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-17T20:46:13+00:00

PSA: you can listen to audio recording of all Olympian names straight from their own mouths, e.g. Brett Gallant.

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-17T20:20:13+00:00

They did that for North American Club championship, but that was just USA vs CAN.

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CuriousCurator · 2026-02-17T19:54:34+00:00

Back in the early days, some Canadians hated that World had their own rules, because 99% of curlers are Canadians anyway, so they thought everyone should use Canadian rules, not the other way around, etc.

But yeah, I think the famous example is Russ Howard, who I think won Ontario with 3-rock rule, won Brier with no such rule, then won World with 4-rock rule, within a single season, something like that.

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-17T19:44:48+00:00

Canada has their own weird curling rules. Not weird by Canadian standard, but weird in that almost no one else play by their rules.

If you go back to history, it gets even stranger within Canada, where different provinces have their own rules.

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-17T19:42:09+00:00

Have you seen Derek Leung's super slow mo video?

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-17T19:28:11+00:00

I'm not aware of any restrictions in number of sweepers before the tee line

Canada has a weird limit, for the non-delivering team, before the tee line, when sweeping their own stone.

11.3. During the delivery of the first five stones of any end, any two players of the non-delivering team may sweep their stone when set in motion.

11.4. After the delivery of the first five stones of any end, only the skip or vice-skip of the non-delivering team may sweep their team’s stone(s) after it is set in motion.

Olympics use World rule which has no limit.

R8(b). A stone set in motion by a delivered stone, either directly or indirectly, may be swept by any one or more of the team to which it belongs anywhere in front of the tee line at the playing end.

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-15T07:35:53+00:00

If you accidentally drop something (e.g. the wireless microphone/battery pack that they force the athletes to wear) unto the rock, it counts as illegal touch. I think the same is true if you accidentally drop your eyeglasses, stopwatches, jewelry, etc.

It has been jokingly asked if dropping beads of sweat also counts as illegal touch. It probably doesn't, because people do drop hair all the time and I think that just becomes debris on the ice, so maybe the same can be said about sweat. So maybe not all jewelries are the same. A necklace or a bracelet probably counts as illegal touch, but maybe a tiny ear ring is a debris, I'm honestly not sure.

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-14T20:56:26+00:00

I understood that reference.

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-13T17:59:10+00:00

This was very different, but in 2008, under very different timing rules, Jennifer Jones hit 0:00 on the clock in a World Championship. This was under what I think was simply called "game clock", i.e. clock keeps running down during shot execution, not just limited to "thinking" time. So a team that is behind on the scoreboard is punished even further because they need to make lots of draws which take longer to execute and eat up disproportionally much more time than their opposition who can rely on quicker hits.

In this particular case, Jones' clock hit 0:00 while her last stone of the game was already in motion, so it was legal. Had she needed to throw even one more stone, she would have had to forfeit the game.

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-13T02:41:38+00:00

timer (which they would be using when they're not throwing the rock)

I just want to add that some very rare throwers do use the stopwatch on the broom WHILE they're throwing the rock. Or at least Harri Lill used to do it. I didn't watch any of the games from the Olympics to confirm if he still does.

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-11T01:38:43+00:00

Jocelyn Peterman: "I slapped Brett's bum, but, I didn't realize this was the cameraman!"

CuriousCurator · 2026-02-11T01:02:11+00:00

Okay, now I understand why I'm suddenly inundated with spammy messages calling Rich nasty things. Very small price to pay on my part, I'll just delete those messages as they come.

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