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Morning
It’s
game
on now!
Issue 3 – Saturday, January 14, 2012 • An Official Publication of the Canadian Curling Association.
North America 42
Team World skip Tom Brewster (above) and N. America’s Glenn Howard
(inset with third Wayne Middaugh) came up with big wins Friday night,
as the World holds a 24 point edge heading into weekend play.
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
World Financial Group Continental Cup • Day 2
World widens lead, but big points lurk
A
By Larry Wood
Morning Cup editor
n afternoon sweep of mixed doubles results Friday
catapulted Team World well in front of the pack at
the World Financial Group Continental Cup curling
competition at the Langley Events Centre.
When Scotland’s Tom Brewster executed a highlight-reel
quad with his last rock of the second end which gave his
team three-point control against Canada’s Jeff Stoughton
and, in the end, a 7-6 men’s team win on the night shift,
Team World’s 24-point lead (66-42) was solidified heading
into today’s matches — two rounds of skins games with a
round of singles sandwiched in between.
The men’s results were sawed off. Glenn Howard of
Canada wiped out a 4-1 deficit after five ends, cracked four
in the sixth and a seventh-end heist for a 6-4 win over Sweden’s Niklas Edin while Norway’s Thomas Ulsrud needed a
straight last-rock hit for a deuce to forge a 4-4 tie with Pete
Fenson’s troops of the U.S.
“Yeah, I wanted to win,” said Brewster, who lost to
Stoughton in last year’s World final at Regina.
“It was good tonight. It was nice to play some pretty good
shots and it turned out we helped sustain the team lead.”
Then there was the quad. The biggest shot played this
week at Langley.
“That is what we went for,” said Brewster. “I have seen it
about 20 times on the Jumbotron since. I liked that one, but
the guys played really well and we had a good team game.
My team shot the lights out.”
On the big shot, the Scottish skip added:
“They weren’t lying as many against us as it looked, but
we certainly had to move a few and we knew the shooter was
probably going to run.
“The feeling was great. That’s what you curl for. Playing
in these events and making a shot like that. You have to be
happy.
“To be quite frank, a steal of two there in an eight-end
game was huge. They came right back, then we got the two
but we persevered and, yeah, that was probably the end that
really won us the game.”
Howard waved off the Team World lead on account of the
big points action slated for today and Sunday.
“We’re down a bit but there are so many points left to play
for I think it’s going to come down to those big skins games.
There’s no clear-cut better team, all the teams here are pretty
even. Saturday will be moving day.”
He was asked if excess play in skins would prove to be an
advantage for North Americans?
“We may have a slight advantage,” he admitted. “We play
the skins more, probably, than they do. And we have some
wily veterans playing the skins. But I think it’s going to
come right down to the final game.”
In that one, Sunday at 5 p.m., Stoughton’s Winnipeggers have been chosen to go against double Euro champion
Ulsrud.
“I don’t know why we’re playing that game but I guess it’s
an honour, you know?” said the Norwegian skip.
“I feel privileged to play it and I’m looking forward to
playing Jeff (Stoughton). It’s a big game.”
Ulsrud trailed Fenson from the first end when the Amerks
cracked an opening deuce.
“We were struggling,” Ulsrud admitted. “We were trailing
Draw 7 9:00 am
‘A’ Skins (Men’s, Women’s and
Mixed) Each game - 20 points
available
Sheet A Women’s World (Anette
Norberg) vs North America (Patti
Lank)
Sheet B Mixed World (Niklas
Edin, Eve Muirhead, Christoffer Svae, Qingshuang Yue) vs
North America (Glenn Howard,
Sherry Anderson, Brent Laing,
Sherri Singler)
Sheet C Men’s World (Tom
Brewster) vs North America (Pete
Fenson)
Team World’s Bingyu Wang defeated North
America’s Amber Holland with her last shot in the
morning draw.
the whole game so to manage a deuce and tie it up was great.
“Before I threw my first rock of that last end we asked the
coach, do you want to go for the kill and try to get one more
behind the corner guard but he said, ‘no guys, just tie it up,
that’ll be just fine”. We could have gone for the three but
then we could have blown the tie, too.
“I don’t think it’s all about the points now because we still
have to play for a lot of points to come. I think the key is the
momentum in the team and the team spirit at the end of the
day. We’re leading, you know, and last year they kicked our
butts. Now we’re leading after two days and it feels good.”
Howard moaned about his team’s “awful start” but the
Swedes allowed the Ontario team to wiggle off the hook.
“I played one awful shot in the third end when we gave
up the three after blanking a couple,” said Howard. “I had a
makeable double and I actually wobbled a bit, set it out and
flashed and he gets three, and I thought, ‘oh man, I’ve blown
it’.
“And then we get three uncharacteristic misses out of Edin
and the boys and we get four. It was crazy.”
The afternoon double sweep afforded the team that was
totally embarrassed at last year’s Cup a certain comfort.
• Torger Nergard of Norway and Bingyu Wang of C––ina
Today’s Matches
Draw 8 1:30 pm
Singles - 32 points available
(Each of the six games is worth
four points or two points for a
tie, with an eight-point bonus
awarded to the side with the
highest aggregate score from all
matches. Each member of the
team must throw at least one, but
not more than two, of the required
six shots, with one thrower, two
sweepers and one holding the
broom.
On deck . . .
Women
Sheet A World (Eve Muirhead) vs
North America (Amber Holland)
Sheet B World (Bingyu Wang) vs
North America (Stefanie Lawton)
Sheet C World (Anette Norberg)
vs Nort h America (Patti Lank)
Men
Sheet A World (Niklas Edin) vs
North America (Pete Fenson)
Sheet B World (Tom Brewster)
vs North America (Jeff Stoughton)
Sheet C World (Thomas Ulsrud)
vs North America (Glenn Howard)
combined for a 5-4 decision against Craig Savill of Canada
and Patti Lank of the U.S.;
• Frederik Lindberg of Sweden and Muirhead warded
off a late rally to shade Ben Hebert and Stefanie Lawton of
Canada 8-7;
• Greg Drummond and Anna Sloan of Scotland got off to a
5-1 lead and hung on for a 7-5 conquest of the Amerk unit of
Joe Polo of the U.S. and Amber Holland of Canada.
“We always felt that if we got an early lead it would get
the momentum going and gain confidence from that,” said
Drummond afterward.
“We always felt that the mixed doubles gave us an opportunity to pick up a lot of points and I think that was the
case.”
Nevertheless, this was Drummond’s first taste of the mixed
doubles format.
“It’s a game of skill where you have to get your stones in
the right places and if you do that you’re going to score big
ends. If you get your stones in the right places it puts a lot
of pressure on the opposition. We were able to do that in the
first part of our game and get an early lead built up.”
Drummond said the toughest part of the assignment is the
lack of sweeping assistance.
“It would be better with dedicated sweepers,” he opined.
“I mean, you’re sitting in the hack and you feel you have a
basic shot that you’d make nine times out of 10 with your
two brushers, but in doubles by the time somebody gets there
to sweep it the shot is missed.
“But this is a different side of the game. It’s a lot of fun.”
Added Muirhead:
“It’s so much fun! It’s a different game. You give up three,
you don’t panic. It’s not difficult to get four or five back.”
Nergard, Norway’s long-time vice-skip, said the teams
practised doubles on Tuesday and “it helped”.
“It was a decent afternoon,” he said, by way of understatement. “I guess we were just making more shots than the
others. Plus some luck, of course.
“I think it’s important to get this lead and then the other
ones have to make that extra effort to make those points.
It’s better to be ahead than to be behind, for sure. We’re not
there yet but we’re looking better than we were last year. We
were trailing from the start last year. By comparison, this is
perfect.”
In women’s competition in the morning, Patti Lank of
the U.S. upended two-time Olympic gold medallist Anette
Norberg of Sweden 8-5 while Stefanie Lawton of Canada executed a last-rock double to score a point and gain a 3-3 draw
with Scotland’s Eve Muirhead, the current Euro champion.
China’s Bingyu Wang, meanwhile, eliminated a partially
hidden stone with her last to score two points and defeat
Amber Holland of Canada 6-4.
“It was a lucky one,” said Wang, who continues to refer
to her team as “a new one” with regular second Qingshuang
Yue playing third and former alternate Jinli Liu moving in at
second.
“We had to pick that one out of there. For this game, we
are so happy for a win.
“I think this is the first time we beat Amber Holland. She
defeated us twice last year at the Worlds (in Denmark). So
this is good for us. With this new team and the change of
players, we need wins for confidence.
“It’s also good for Team World because we hope to do well
this year.”
Draw 9
6:30 pm ‘B’ Skins (Men’s,
Women’s and Mixed) Each game 30 points available
Sheet A Women’s World (Eve
Muirhead) vs North America (Amber Holland)
Sheet B Mixed World (Thomas
Ulsrud, Bingyu Wang, Greg Drummond, Sara Carlsson) vs North
America (Jeff Stoughton, Patti
Lank, Jon Mead, Mackenzie Lank)
Sheet C Men’s World (Niklas
Edin) vs North America (Glenn
Howard)
Sunday’s Matches
Draw 10
10:30 am
‘C’ Final Women’s Skins Game – 55 points
available Sheet B Women’s World (Bingyu
Wang) vs North America (Stefanie Lawton)
Draw 11
5:00 pm
‘C’ Final Men’s Skins Game – 55 points
available Sheet B Men’s World (Thomas
Ulsrud) vs North America (Jeff Stoughton)
7:45 pm
Closing Ceremonies
8:30 pm
Champions Reception
2012 World Financial Group Continental Cup of Curling - Morning Cup
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Skipsterhood
of Sask. alive
and well
A
ll right, Patti Lank. What’s the best way to
describe your curling career? Loaded with work
ethic? Persevering? Enduring? Limitless?
“Maybe it should be stupidity,” chirps the 47-year-old
skip currently representing the Rochester N.Y. Curling Club,
to say nothing of the U.S. of A. at Continental Cup VIII.
Lank, current defending U.S. champion women’s skip for
the fifth time, has been fighting tooth and nail to represent
the stars and stripes at world curling shindigs every year
since her first success back there in 1997. And fighting. And
fighting, and fighting.
She’s played in five world championships and beat the
eventual winner in three of them — including such luminarLARRY WOOD
ies as four-time champion Elisabet Gustafson, three-time
Morning Cup Editor
champion Anette Norberg and two-time champion Colleen
Jones.
“It’s funny,” said the U.S. skip who lives in Lewiston,
N.Y., just south of the Niagara River. “I have beaten a lot of good teams. I’m just ornery, I
guess.”
Trouble is, she’s never managed to hijack one of those world titles for herself.
“Yeah, but there’s still time,” she says with endless optimism.
“When you play these people you know you have to come with your A game. Over the
years you just try to get up and do that with everybody.
“I don’t know of any secret to beating winners.”
A native of Midale, SK., which gives the current Team North American women’s side
a distinct mean green look at the current World Financial Group Continental Cup at the
Langley Events Centre, Lank is a dual citizen who has represented Yankland at world
debates in 1997, 1999, 2002, 2004 and 2011.
To boot, she was one victory away from being U,S. champ in 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003,
2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010. To save you the calculation, that’s 13 national finals in 15
years!
“We always have been in the hunt — it seems like I’ve been in the final every year —
but Debbie McCormick’s team was so strong, so it’s a good thing she retired as a skip,”
quips Lank.
McCormick now plays
third
for Erika Brown, who
Patti Lank
played at last year’s Continental Cup in St. Albert.
“I guess I’m still around
because I don’t feel like I’m
getting any worse,” says the
most venerable distaff skip
on the Langley premises. “I
think I’m playing better and
better each year. It’s just a
matter of getting the right
team together and making it
all happen.
“And it’s a pleasure now
playing with Mackenzie, my
daughter. That has put a little
bit of a spark in me. Not only
do you want to win for yourself. But you want to win for
her, too. It made a big difference for me last year.”
Lank’s the type of amiable
person that, if she ever does
win the Worlds, she’ll be
claimed by Canada, anyway.
Her hubby’s an Air Canada
pilot who commutes from
Lewiston to Toronto’s
Pearson Airport, a 90-minute
one-way trip, once or twice
a week.
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CONTINENTAL CUP: SCORES & STATS
After Day 2
North America 42
Men
Women
Bonus
Total
Team Doubles Singles Skins Total
18
3
0
0
21
18
3
0
0
21
0
0
0
0
0
36
6
0
0
42
Women’s
Team Results
North America
World
Wins Points
1.5
9
1.5
9
Friday’s Draw 4
SCORING SUMMARY FOR DRAW 4
A Norberg (SWE)
Lank (USA)
B Wang (CHN)
Holland (CAN)
C Muirhead (SCO)
Lawton (CAN)
World 66
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 TOTAL
0 0 2 0 0 3 0 X 5 01:21
*1 0 0 1 3 0 3 X 8 02:00
POINTS
0
6
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 TOTAL
POINTS
*2 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 6 01:21 6
0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 4 00:07 0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 TOTAL
POINTS
0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 00:01 3
*0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 3 00:26 3
*last rock advantage
A Norberg (SWE) 5 Lank (USA) 8
Norberg (SWE)
#SH PTS PCT
Lank (USA)
1 Lotta Lennartsson 16 50 78 1 Mackenzie Lank
2 Sara Carlsson
16 54 84 2 Caitlin Maroldo
3 Cissi ôstlund
16 50 78 3 Nina Spatola
4 Anette Norberg
15 50 83 4 Patti Lank
Team Totals
63 204 81
Team Totals
#SH PTS PCT
16 55 86
16 34 53
16 43 67
16 54 84
64 186 73
B Wang (CHN) 6 Holland (CAN) 4
Wang (CHN)
#SH PTS PCT
Holland (CAN)
#SH PTS PCT
1 Yan Zhou
16 52 81
1 Heather Kalenchuk 16 54 84
2 Jinli Liu
16 44 69
2 Tammy Schneider
16 53 83
3 Qingshuang Yue
16 42 66
3 Kim Schneider
16 40 63
4 Bingyu Wang
16 49 77
4 Amber Holland
16 51 80
Team Totals
64 187 73
Team Totals
64 198 77
C Muirhead (SCO) 3 Lawton (CAN) 3
Muirhead (SCO)
#SH PTS PCT
Lawton (CAN) #SH PTS PCT
1 Claire Hamilton
16 61 95 1 Marliese Kasner
16 51 80
2 Vicki Adams
16 44 69 2 Sherri Singler
16 56 88
3 Anna Sloan
16 49 77 3 Sherry Anderson
16 59 92
4 Eve Muirhead
16 62 97 4 Stefanie Lawton
16 60 94
Team Totals
64 216 84
Team Totals
64 226 88
Men
Women
Bonus
Total
Team Doubles Singles Skins Total
18
15
0
0
33
18
15
0
0
33
0
0
0
0
0
36
30
0
0
66
Mixed Doubles
Results
North America
World
Wins Points
0
0
3
18
Friday’s Draw 5
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 TOTAL
POINTS
A North America *1 *0 *0 *1 *0 *1 1 X 4 00:44 0
World
0 2 1 0 2 0 *0 *X 5 06:34 6
Throwers: NORT Craig Savill and Patti Lank
WORL Torger Nergrd and Bingyu Wang
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 TOTAL
POINTS
B North America *0 *0 *0 *0 *3 0 *2 2 7 11:29 0
World
2 2 2 1 0 *1 0 *0 8 10:20 6
Throwers: NORT Ben Hebert and Stefanie Lawton
WORL Fredrik Lindberg and Eve Muirhead
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 TOTAL
POINTS
C North America 0 *1 0 *0 *3 0 *1 X 5 07:13
0
World
*1 0 *3 1 0 *2 0 *X 7 10:10
6
Throwers: NORT Joe Polo and Amber Holland
WORL Greg Drummond and Anna Sloan
GAME PERCENTAGES FOR DRAW 5
A North America 4 World 5
North America
#SH PTS PCT
World
#SH PTS PCT
Craig Savill
17 38 56
Bingyu Wang
15 34 57
Patti Lank
23 54 59
Torger Nergrd
24 66 69
Team Totals
40 92 57
Team Totals
39 100 64
B North America 7 World 8
North America
#SH PTS PCT
Stefanie Lawton
21 55 65
Ben Hebert
19 44 58
Team Totals
40 99 62
World
#SH PTS PCT
Eve Muirhead
16 49 77
Fredrik Lindberg
24 77 80
Team Totals
40 126 79
C North America 5 World 7
North America
#SH PTS PCT World
#SH PTS PCT
Amber Holland
16 40 63 Anna Sloan
15 41 68
Joe Polo
24 74 77 Greg Drummond 24 82 85
Team Totals
40 114 71 Team Totals
39 123 79
Men’s
Team Results
North America
World
Wins Points
1.5
9
1.5
9
Thursday’s Draw 6
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 TOTAL
POINTS
A Edin (SWE)
*0 0 3 0 1 0 0 X 4 03:18 0
Howard (CAN) 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 X 6 03:06 6
B Ulsrud (NOR)
Fenson (USA)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 TOTAL
POINTS
0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2
4 00:23 3
*2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 4 01:03 3
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 TOTAL
POINTS
C Brewster (SCO) *1 2 0 2 0 1 0 1
7 01:34 6
Stoughton (CAN) 0 0 3 0 1 0 2 0 6 02:17
0
GAME PERCENTAGES FOR DRAW 6
A Edin (SWE) 4 Howard (CAN) 6
Edin (SWE)
#SH PTS PCT
1 Victor KjÑll
16 58 91
2 Fredrik Lindberg
16 58 91
3 Sebastian Kraupp 16 46 72
4 Niklas Edin
15 47 78
Team Totals
63 209 83
Howard (CAN)
1 Craig Savill
2 Brent Laing
3 Wayne Middaugh
4 Glenn Howard
Team Totals
B Ulsrud (NOR) 4 Fenson (USA) 4
Ulsrud (NOR)
#SH PTS PCT
1 Hvard Vad Petersson 16 64 100
2 Christoffer Svae
16 50 78
3 Torger Nergrd
16 57 89
4 Thomas Ulsrud
16 56 88
Team Totals
64 227 89
Fenson (USA)
1 Ryan Brunt
2 Joe Polo
3 Shawn Rojeski
4 Pete Fenson
Team Totals
C Brewster (SCO) 7 Stoughton (CAN) 6
Brewster (SCO)
#SH PTS PCT
1 Michael Goodfellow
16 60 94
2 Scott Andrews
16 58 91
3 Greg Drummond
16 48 75
4 Tom Brewster
16 53 83
Team Totals
64 219 86
*Last rock in first
Stoughton (CAN)
1 Ben Hebert
2 Reid Carruthers
3 Jon Mead
4 Jeff Stoughton
Team Totals
#SH PTS PCT
16 59 92
16 55 86
16 53 83
16 54 84
64 221 86
#SH PTS PCT
16 58 91
16 60 94
16 56 88
16 54 84
64 228 89
#SH PTS PCT
16 61 95
16 55 86
16 53 83
16 58 91
64 227 89
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CONTINENTAL CUP RULES:
How this works
RULES FOR TODAY
The rules of the World
Curling Federation (WCF)
will apply unless otherwise
stated within the special rules
that have been defined for
each discipline.
In teams and skins competitions (excepting the mixed
skins games), the teams
participating must be those
teams originally named to
compete in the Continental
Cup. If a curler is unable
to play as a result of accident, injury or extenuating
circumstances, a substitute
or replacement player may
be taken from another team
on the same side. The chief
umpire mjust approve all
substitutions.
SINGLES
Each of the six teams
from each side will participate in the six singles
matches (three men’s and
three women’s). The competition consists of six shots
and each curler on each team
must throw at least one of the
shots but not more than two
so that all 24 curlers from
each side will participate. All
shots will be thrown with one
player holding the broom as
a target, two sweepers and a
thrower.
Points
• The winner of each
game earns four points. Two
points will be awarded to
each side in the event of a tie.
A total of six singles games
will be played, meaning the
total points awarded will be
24. Eight bonus points will
be awarded to the side with
the highest aggregate score,
meaning the greatest number
of points from all the shots
played by its side. Total
points available for singles
is 32.
Rules
• In order to accommodate
the needs of television for
this event, each shot will
be completed in the following manner: The shot will
be explained in the arena
and on air; the master of
ceremonies (MC) will cue
the thrower on sheet A; the
MC will announce the score
once the shot is completed;
the MC will then cue the second thrower on sheet A; the
when the shot is completed;
the MC will then cue the
thrower on sheet B; the same
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through B and C; the next
type of shot is explained and
the throwing procedure for
each rock thrown will be the
same but this time the rotation will go from C-to-A..
• The order of the games
to be played once the draw
has been completed — the
three women’s games will be
played, followed by the three
men’s games.
• The shots will be played
in the following order: Runthrough, draw-the-button,
draw-the- port, raise, hit-androll, double-takeout. When
a stone colour has been
assigned, the player can only
throw that colour. The team
throwing red stones will have
first stone at the start of the
game. Once the first shot
has been thrown, last stone
will alternate from player to
player and from shot to shot
— the player who threw the
run-through shot first will
throw the draw-the-button
shot second. The thrower can
select the turn as desired for
each shot, but each thrower
must use three in-turns and
three out-turns during the
match. Also, the hit-and-roll
shot and the double-takeout
are designed to be thrown
from the centre line out.
Regardless of the turn chosen, this is the manner in
which these shots must be
played.
Shots
Run-through
• A stone is positioned at
the back of the button so
that it bisects the centre-line
and touches the tee-line and
a second stone is positioned
about four feet in front of
the rings, also bisecting the
centre line. The thrower will
attempt to hit the front stone
and raise it onto the stone at
the back of the button, and
remove it from play. Points
will be awarded as follows:
The stationary stone is
removed from the rings and
the raised stone stops on any
portion of the button, five (5)
points; the stationary stone
is removed from the rings
and the raised stone stops in
any portion of the four-foot
circle, four (4) points; the
stationary stone is removed
from the rings and the raised
stone stops in any portion of
the eight-foot circle, three (3)
points; the stationary stone is
the raised stone stops in any
portion of the 12-foot circle;
two (2) points; the stationary
stone is removed from the
rings and the raised stone
rolls out of the rings, one (1)
point.
Draw-the-button
• The thrower will attempt
to throw a stone to the button. Points will be awarded
as follows: The played stone
stops on any portion of the
button, five (5) points; the
played stone stops in any
portion of the four-foot circle,
four (4) points; the played
the eight-foot circle, three
(3) points; the played stone
stops in any portion of the
12-foot circle, two (2) points;
the played stone stops fully
within any portion of the
free guard zone area, one (1)
point.
Draw-the-port
• The thrower will select
a port that will depend on
which turn is selected and
plays a stone to the button
through the port. Should the
played stone touch either of
the stationary stones, as it
attempts to pass by, no points
will be awarded. Points will
be awarded as follows:
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CONTINENTAL CUP RULES:
How this works
RULES FOR TODAY
The rules of the World
Curling Federation (WCF)
will apply unless otherwise
stated within the special rules
that have been defined for
each discipline.
In teams and skins competitions (excepting the mixed
skins games), the teams
participating must be those
teams originally named to
compete in the Continental
Cup. If a curler is unable
to play as a result of accident, injury or extenuating
circumstances, a substitute
or replacement player may
be taken from another team
on the same side. The chief
umpire must approve all substitutions.
SINGLES
Each of the six teams
from each side will participate in the six singles
matches (three men’s and
three women’s). The competition consists of six shots
and each curler on each team
must throw at least one of the
shots but not more than two
so that all 24 curlers from
each side will participate. All
shots will be thrown with one
player holding the broom as
a target, two sweepers and a
thrower.
Points
• The winner of each
game earns four points. Two
points will be awarded to
each side in the event of a tie.
A total of six singles games
will be played, meaning the
total points awarded will be
24. Eight bonus points will
be awarded to the side with
the highest aggregate score,
meaning the greatest number
of points from all the shots
played by its side. Total
points available for singles
is 32.
Rules
• In order to accommodate
the needs of television for
this event, each shot will
be completed in the following manner: The shot will
be explained in the arena
and on air; the master of
ceremonies (MC) will cue
the thrower on sheet A; the
once the shot is completed;
the MC will then cue the second thrower on sheet A; the
when the shot is completed;
the MC will then cue the
thrower on sheet B; the same
procedure will be followed
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through B and C; the next
type of shot is explained and
the throwing procedure for
each rock thrown will be the
same but this time the rotation will go from C-to-A..
• The order of the games
to be played once the draw
has been completed — the
three women’s games will be
played, followed by the three
men’s games.
• The shots will be played
in the following order: Runthrough, draw-the-button,
draw-the- port, raise, hit-androll, double-takeout. When
a stone colour has been
assigned, the player can only
throw that colour. The team
throwing red stones will have
first stone at the start of the
game. Once the first shot
has been thrown, last stone
will alternate from player to
player and from shot to shot
— the player who threw the
run-through shot first will
throw the draw-the-button
shot second. The thrower can
select the turn as desired for
each shot, but each thrower
must use three in-turns and
three out-turns during the
match. Also, the hit-and-roll
shot and the double-takeout
are designed to be thrown
from the centre line out.
Regardless of the turn chosen, this is the manner in
which these shots must be
played.
Shots
Run-through
• A stone is positioned at
the back of the button so
that it bisects the centre-line
and touches the tee-line and
a second stone is positioned
about four feet in front of
the rings, also bisecting the
centre line. The thrower will
attempt to hit the front stone
and raise it onto the stone at
the back of the button, and
remove it from play. Points
will be awarded as follows:
The stationary stone is
the raised stone stops on any
portion of the button, five (5)
points; the stationary stone
is removed from the rings
and the raised stone stops in
any portion of the four-foot
circle, four (4) points; the
stationary stone is removed
from the rings and the raised
the eight-foot circle, three (3)
points; the stationary stone is
the raised stone stops in any
portion of the 12-foot circle;
two (2) points; the stationary
stone is removed from the
rings and the raised stone
rolls out of the rings, one (1)
point.
Draw-the-button
• The thrower will attempt
to throw a stone to the button. Points will be awarded
as follows: The played stone
stops on any portion of the
button, five (5) points; the
played stone stops in any
portion of the four-foot circle,
four (4) points; the played
the eight-foot circle, three
(3) points; the played stone
stops in any portion of the
12-foot circle, two (2) points;
the played stone stops fully
within any portion of the
free guard zone area, one (1)
point.
Draw-the-port
• The thrower will select
a port that will depend on
which turn is selected and
plays a stone to the button
through the port. Should the
played stone touch either of
the stationary stones, as it
attempts to pass by, no points
will be awarded. Points will
be awarded as follows:
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Lank does not miss
Prairie ‘skeeters’
Continued from 3
When Lank departed Saskatchewan as a 19-year-old to head south to college she left
family behind that remains in the Weyburn area — a sister and a brother. She proceeded
to live in Ontario (Orangeville) “for a long time and curled there with a bunch of different players”.
Her mother was born in the U.S., hence her right to dual citizenship. And that extends
to the whole family.
The move to Lewiston transpired 16 years ago. But she’s a member of the Niagara
Falls, ON., Curling Club.
So why the U.S. residency?
“The promised land?” she asks with a wide smile.
“I can afford to live there. We find it’s much more reasonable to live there. I think you
get more bang for your buck there. That includes the whole gamut of things. But we love
it there, too.”
An example?
“Do you know how expensive your wine is up here?” she asks by way of exclamation.
She is told that next year’s Continental Cup will be played in Penticton, arguably
Canada’s wine central. It’s another reason for another earnest shot at the upcoming U.S.
Nationals.
“It feels great being here,” she says. “It’s so much fun here. I love this event. The
camaraderie is wonderful and being able to play with these world-class curlers really is
special.”
And she feels more than a slight sisterhood with the Saskatchewan curlers skipped by
Stefanie Lawton and Canadian champion Amber Holland.
“Absolutely, Canadians have the curling bug and I guess that’s my excuse,” she says.
“And you have three Saskatchewan skips here, right? Isn’t that great – The Prairie Girls!
What are the odds that from all of Canada we’d have three Saskatchewan skips playing
for Team North America? It’s incredible, I think.”
Lank makes an annual trek back to Saskatchewan to visit the family.
“I get my fill of family and mosquitoes and golf,” she quips. “But that’s one thing I do
not miss about Saskatchewan — those mosquitoes!”
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Curling kickoff set for Super Bowl
By Terry Kolesar
U.S.A. Curling
USA Curling is set to take part in the festivities around
one of the world’s biggest sporting events - the Super
Bowl.
A unique outdoor curling rink will be set up in the Super
Bowl Village in Indianapolis from Jan. 27-Feb. 5 for fans
to try their hand at one of the fastest growing winter Olympic sports.
USA Curling is partnering with Chad McMullan of Rock
Solid Productions Inc. and the Circle City Curling Club
to introduce this 500-year-old sport to the hordes of Super
Bowl Village visitors. The Village is a free, family-friendly
area in the heart of downtown Indianapolis spanning three
blocks that is designed to be an interactive festival of football and fun for 10 days.
“It’s not every day that we have the chance to help
people discover curling in such a fun environment, and on
such a big stage,” says Rick Patzke, USA Curling’s chief
operating officer, of Stevens Point, Wis.
“We are grateful to the National Football League and the
organizers of the Super Bowl Village in Indianapolis for
welcoming curling. We think people will really enjoy this
new “street curling” equipment we’ll be using for the first
time, too.
The ultimate curling fan experience will utilize full-size,
customized curling rocks on specially treated flooring
designed to replicate an ice surface. It will be set up along
a sidewalk on South Capital Avenue in front of the Pam
Am Plaza building near Conseco Fieldhouse, the Indiana
Convention Center and a stone’s throw from Lucas Oil
Field, site of the Super Bowl on Feb. 5.
“The Super Bowl is a worldwide phenomenon. We are
looking forward to not only introducing local residents to
the sport, but also people from around the world,” said Jeff
Heck, president of the Circle City Curling Club.
The club was founded in 2007 and is now anchored at
Fishers Forum Ice Arena in Fishers, Ind., just outside of
Indianapolis. “Curlers from near and far will assist in the
demos.
We hope this exposure will help increase our club membership and encourage visitors to seek out and support or
start clubs in their home towns.”
USA Curling is sponsored by AtomAmpd, Nike, Brooms
Up Curling Supplies, and The RAM Restaurant & Brewery. The Indianapolis RAM, less than two blocks away
from the Super Bowl Village curling, will serve as “broomstacking central” for the curling crew.
Red Deer, Kingston to host Scotties
Morning Cup
Defending champion Amber Holland and her Kronau, Sask., team
will be in the lineup as Team Canada
for the 2012 Scotties Tournament of
Hearts, to be held Alberta, for the
fifth time in the event’s history.
The action returns to Red Deer’s
Enmax Centrium, Feb. 18-26.
Red Deer is second only to Regina
in total attendance at a Scotties. With
its central location midway between
Calgary and Edmonton, the city has
traditionally drawn support from both
the north and south. Only Regina in
1998, had an attendance that exceeded the 112,886 mark set at Red Deer
in 2004 when Colleen Jones and her
Halifax juggernaut won its fifth Canadian women’s title in six years.
“The success of an event like the
Scotties doesn’t come from the work
of one” says Sherri Ryckman, chair
of the Red Deer host committee.
“The success will come from the
entire community and our curling
family. I know that Red Deer has the
spirit to make this the the best Scotties ever.
Regina’s Scotties attendance record, set in 1998, is 154,688.
The last Alberta team to win
the Scotties was skipped by Cathy
(Borst) King at that same 1998 event.
Borst directed third Heather Godberson (Nedohin), second Brenda
Bohmer and lead Kate Horne.
Winner of the 2012 Scotties will
travel down Alberta’s No. 2 highway to represent Canada at the Ford
Worlds at Lethbridge’s Enmax Centre, March 17-25.
KINGSTON 2013
The 2013 Scotties, meanwhile, will
be held in Ontario for the ninth time
in the event’s history, at Kingston’s
K-Rock Centre.
Kingston hasn’t hosted a Canadian
curling championship since 1957,
when Alberta’s Matt Baldwin won
his second of three Macdonald Brier
titles.
The last time Ontario won the
Canadian women’s title, Marilyn
Bodogh skipped her team to victory for the second time, in 1996.
In the history of the championship,
which began in 1961, the province
has won just five times. In addition
to Bodogh, past champions include
Heather Houston (another two-time
winner) and Alison Goring.
“The Scotties is the perfect event
for the return of championship curling to this historical city - Canada’s
first Capital and UNESCO World
Heritage destination,” says host committee chair, Ken Thompson, who
also chaired the host committed for
the 1991 Brier at Hamilton.
Kingston, located halfway between
Montreal and Toronto, is steeped in
history and tradition. It is the final
resting place of Canada’s first Prime
Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.
The city is known as the “freshwater capital of North America”
and is a major port for cruises to the
famous Thousand Islands.
The Party Line • Your guide to what’s goin’ on
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your guide to what’s goin’ on
the
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Tonight at 9:30 pm
The Chevelles
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cash
The final qualifying round in the Cool Shots
competition hits the table at noon today in the
Original 16 Patch. Sign up for free and take your
best shot at the $100 daily prize and the chance to
move on to tomorrow’s finals with $200 on the line.
The Chevelles rocked the Original 16 Patch last night with an electrifying ride back to the
days when the live music scene was at the height of popularity. And, tonight they’ll be back…
shifting into overdrive with a high-energy show featuring all the classic hits that moved rock
and roll to the centre of the music universe!
They’ve earned the reputation as “Legends of the Patch” over the past five years, injecting
life into the party every time they perform at Season of Champions events across the country.
The Lethbridge group is one of the finest cover bands in the land, with a song list that includes
more than 200 hits. There’s something for everyone as they deliver an act that’s fueled with
energy, exceptional musical talent and a dynamic stage presence that keeps the crowds on
their feet ‘til the very last note.
Catch the musical ride with the Chevelles
– tonight in the Original 16 Patch!
In Friday action, John Balzer of Abbotsford ran the
table to take home the daily prize and secure a spot for
the Sunday play.
The finals for the Cool Shots Club Competition will
also be contested tomorrow in the Original 16 Patch with
16 qualifying teams from the Langley, Abbotsford, Royal
City and Richmond curling clubs competing for big cash.
The winners pick up $800, second place takes $400 and
the third-place finishers pocket $150. Plus, the home club
of the winning team receives a cheque for $5,000!
John Balzer lost out in the Cool Shots final on
opening day - but came back with a win Friday
to qualify for Sunday’s championship play.
If you love the excitement of live championship curling, but at the same time
appreciate the expert analysis of the TSN commentators… you can have it both
ways! TSN coverage for all televised draws at the 2012 World Financial Group
Continental Cup will be carried live on 89.9 FM radio.
Just tune in to the broadcast while you enjoy the action on the ice.
Portable radios are on sale at the event merchandise store.
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There’s only one word
to describe the added
value of every ticket...
up close
and
up close
personal
personal
and
Meet face-to-face with the best
players in the game at the Team
Autograph session in the Original 16
Patch. They’re always ready to sign
on the line and pose for photos with
the fans!
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All Team Autograph Session
Sunday – 3:00 pm
and
Today – 5:00 pm
and
Friday 5:00 pm
Amber Holland
(Canada)
Stefanie Lawton
(Canada)
Patti Lank
(USA)
Eve Muirhead
(Scotland)
Bingyu Wang
(China)
Anette Norberg
(Sweden)
All Male Skips
Meet the Greatest Names in the Women’s Game!
Saturday 5:00 pm
What’s it like to compete at the highest level of international curling? Find out today in the Original 16 Patch
when the female skips at the World Financial Group Continental Cup are featured at the Up Close and Personal
interview session.
Up Close and Personal has become one of the most popular features of Season of Champions events. It’s a
candid forum where the players can sit back, relax and field questions from the fans. The responses are always
insightful… and, in many cases, hilarious! But, make sure you show up early to get hold of a good seat.
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the World Financial Group Continental Cup. It’s an electronic system so you can
watch the prize grow while you enjoy the excitement on the ice. Winners will be
featured each day in the Party Line.
The Junior Stars program has given 15 young curlers from local clubs
the chance to share the spotlight with the players. They were selected as
honourary members of the teams and will receive:
• A commemorative Junior Stars jacket
• Tickets for themselves and their family to the draw when
their team is featured
• A 2012 World Financial Group Continental Cup event pin
• An official photograph with the team
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But the best part is the opportunity to meet the team, observe them from
ice-level in practice and take part in a special pre-game ceremony.
Along with a great selection of refreshing beverages and a lineup of top-notch bands,
ofOriginal
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Coleslaw
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Mixed Seasonal Vegetables
Penne Pasta with Meat Sauce
Rosemary Roasted Chicken
Squares & Cookies
Coffee & Tea
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Continental Cup Flashback • 2006• Chilliwack, B.C. • Europe 229/N.A. 171
T
Europe blindsides in a B.C. blizzard
he contention persists that Team
North America enjoys a distinct
Continental Cup advantage due to
the event’s lopsided point distribution leaning to curling’s skins games in the stretch
run.
Yeah, and they’ve never heard of rain or
blizzards on the lower mainland of British
Columbia, either.
The skins, you understand, is designed to
guarantee a latter-day climax to the 12-team
Ryder Cup-style curling event, the fourth
renewal of which was staged at surprisingly
wet and wintry Chilliwack in late November.
And much like the preceding three editions, the naysayers were still chirping and
still harping about the skins. The Europeans
aren’t familiar with the format, the naysayers argued. It’s an unfair bonus for the home
side, they maintained.
Of the 400 points available in the competition, 260 go up for grabs in skins.
A total of 72 points are available in eightend team games, 36 in mixed doubles and
32 in singles.
Well, once again there was a climax in
this deal . . . sort of. But it wasn’t extended
very far into the Sunday shooting. Hence it
made for something less than gut-clenching
viewing.
To boot, the so-called North American
advantage had long since evaporated during
the penultimate day of skins activity when
the Europeans literally wiped the floor of
those with the supposed edge in experience
and knowledge of skins strategy.
The final tab was Europe 229, North
America 171 (163-97 in skins), which
deadlocked the series at two wins apiece and
proved to be the widest margin of victory
by a single digit over the Amerks’ win at
Medicine Hat in 2004.
Bottom line is the skins format isn’t
exactly an equivalent to rocket science. You
don’t have to play at it for years in order
to figure it out. It’s just curling one end at
a time, thereby encouraging more rocks in
play and, it follows, more exciting shots and
more luck-tinged results.
One incidence of the latter proved to be
the TSN, oops, CBC turning point in this
affair. It occurred around lunch time on Day
Three in the women’s 30-point skins tussle
involving international curling veteran and
Continental Cup rookie Andrea Schöpp of
Germany and 2006 world silver medallist
Debbie McCormick of Madison, Wis.
Schöpp had picked up a four-point skin
in the second end before the teams indulged
in a succession of carryovers that brought
matters to a head in the eighth and final
exchange.
The 1992 Olympic gold medallist at
Albertville, France, owned the hammer but
McCormick had a counter hidden deep in
the four-foot leaving Schöpp two or three
long angle-raise options with the in-turn.
She selected one but her stone failed to take
the anticipated swing and, seemingly on
its own, selected another route to the same
target.
“It was luck,” Schöpp admitted afterward,
although anyone watching wouldn’t have
known she hadn’t called the shot and would
have been inclined to describe it as a pistol.
And once she gave her own description of
what she’d intended it seemed obvious that
the shot she was attempting was decidedly
Swiss skip Mirjam Ott was big in Chilliwack for Team World.
more difficult than the shot she made.
No matter. It afforded the Europeans a
30-0 whitewash of McCormick and forged
a 52-point swing in a competition that, to
that point, had seen the North Americans
clinging desperately to a mere two-point
lead (62-60) following teams, singles and
one-half of mixed doubles action. And it was
a momentum-grabber of the first water.
“No doubt that was the big turnaround,”
assessed North American captain Lindsay
Sparkes of Vancouver afterward. “There are
always breaks to be had in sport and that
was one of them. We had a great start but
then we just ran into a gangbuster team. All
in all, I think it was a phenomenal event.”
European captain Elisabet Gustafson of
Sweden agreed.
“That 30-pointer was the big break for
us,” she said. “After that, I think our experience came to the fore.
““Despite our big lead going into the final
day, I still didn’t feel safe. I couldn’t have
expected this outcome, especially in terms
of the margin of victory. I’m so proud of this
fantastic team.”
Added Sparkes:
“Our team played its heart out. I couldn’t
have asked any more from any one of them.
I think it’s a case of one team got really hot.
Team Europe had touch on their shots all
week and, even though they don’t play as
much skins curling as we do, they carried
that over into the skins play.”
European teams of Finland’s Markku
Uusipaavalniemi (20-10) over Pete Fenson
of Bemidji, Minn., Swiss miss Mirjam Ott
(34-6) over Kelly Scott of Kelowna and Pal
Trulsen of Norway (30-10) over Jean-Mi-
chel Menard of Gatineau, Quebec City, etc.,
proceeded to decide this issue in a matter of
hours, constructing a sudden 180-100 lead
before the Saturday rock-smacking ceased.
That left Canada’s Olympic teams of
Brad Gushue and Shannon Kleibrink with
the insurmountable task of overcoming an
80-point lead with 120 points remaining on
the table in the final round of skinny-skinskins.
The Canucks couldn’t make it happen, to
no one’s surprise, but they fought the good
and valiant fight, kept the suspense going
for much of the last draw which, as good
fortune would have it, was overlapped for
the first time in order to fit into 210 minutes
of television time.
“It was tough,” allowed Kleibrink, who finally succumbed 32-28 to world and Olympic champion Anette Norberg of Sweden.
“In the end, the margin was just too
great.”
Kleibrink piled up 28 straight points, 22
of them stolen, after Norberg went in front
8-zip. But the jig was up when the ice-cool
Swede nabbed seventh- and eighth-end skins
worth 24 points, Kleibrink missing difficult
shots on both ends.
Brad Gushue of The Rock was performing magic against world champion David
Murdoch of Scotland on an adjacent sheet.
Murdoch also took an 8-zip lead but Gushue
battled back with a 19-point skin in the fifth
end and closed out the debate with 24 more
points long after the Cup issue had been
decided.
Gushue, Mark Nichols, Russ Howard
and Jamie Korab wound up the lone North
American team to triumph in skins. Otherwise, the competition was a skin-tight fit.
The sides sawed-off totally in team play
with five wins each and two games tied. Menard’s Canadian champion outfit of Francois
Roberge, Eric Sylvain and Maxime Elmaleh
was the only one in the field to win twice.
North Americans excelled at mixed
doubles, winning four of six matches. But
the Europeans dominated singles by four
wins to one with a sixth match drawn.
Veteran 50-year-old Howard, who
performed his swan song at second for the
Gushue crew, individually led the Amerks
by being involved in a 55-point contribution.
Howard returns to New Brunswick with a
view to that provincial championship in the
company of Mark Dobson, Grant Odishaw
and son Steven. The Gushue team will add
Alberta transplant Chris Schille at second.
Switzerland’s Ott, a Continental Cup
rookie, was involved in 50 Team Europe
points.
World 229, World 171
The players and the points
contributed
WORLD
Mirjam Ott (50), Binia FelstcherBeeli (40), Valeria Spalty (40),
Janice Greiner (40), Flims,
Switzerland. Total: 170.
Anette Norberg (38), Eva Lund
(44), Cathrine Lindahl (38), Anna
Svard (40), Stockholm, Sweden.
Total: 160.
Andrea Schoepp (39), Monika
Wagner (39), Anna Hartelt (39),
Tina Tichatschke (39), GarmischPartenkirchen, Germany. Total:
156.
Pal Trulsen (36), Lars Vagberg
(30), Flemming Davanger (34),
Bent Anund Ramsfjell (30), Oslo,
Norway. Total: 130.
Markku Uusipaavalniemi (33),
Kalle Kiiskinen (29), Jani Sul-
lenmaa (29), Teemu Salo (29),
Helsinki, Finland. Total: 120.
David Murdoch (23), Ewan
MacDonald (33), Peter Smith
(23), Euan Byers (23), Lockerbie,
Scotlans. Total: 102.
NORTH AMERICA
Brad Gushue (49), Mark Nichols
(49), Russ Howard (55), Jamie
Korab (49), St. John’s, Canada.
Total: 202.
Shannon Kleibrink (42), Amy
Nixon (34), Bronwen Saunders
(34), Christine Keshen (34),
Calgary, Canada. Total: 144.
Jean-Michel Menard (28), Francois Roberge (22), Eric Sylvain
(22), Maxime Elmaleh (22), SteFoy, Canada. Total: 94.
Pete Fenson (19), Shawn Rojeski
(19), Joe Polo (13), Doug Pottinger (13), Bemidji, Minn., U.S.A.
Total: 64.
Kelly Scott (13), Jeanna Schraeder (15), Sasha Carter (9), Renee
Simons (9), Kelowna, Canada.
Total: 46.
Debbie McCormick (12), Nicole
Joraanstad (12), Natalie Nicholson (6), Tracy Sachtjen (6),
Madison, Wis., U.S.A. Total: 36.
MIXED DOUBLES
North America 24, World 12
SINGLES
North America 18 (including
8-point bonus), World 14
TEAMS
SKINS
World 163, North America 97.
It all comes down to the skins
Continued from Page 5
The played stone stops on any portion of
the button, five (5) points; the played stone
stops in any portion of the four-foot circle,
four (4) points; the played stone stops in
any portion of the eight-foot circle, three (3)
points; the played stone stops in any portion of the 12-foot circle, two (2) points; the
played stone remains in the free guard zone
area and its leading edge is clearly beyond the
two stationary stones, one (1) point.
Raise
• The thrower attempts to raise a stationary
stone, which is positioned on the centre line
in front of the rings, into the rings. Points
will be awarded as follows: The stationary
stone is raised and stops on any portion of the
button, five (5) points; the stationary stone is
raised and stops in any portion of the fourfoot, four (4) points; the stationary stone is
raised and stops in any portion of the eightfoot, three (3) points; the stationary stone is
raised and stops in any portion of the 12-foot,
two (2) points; the stationary stone is raised
forward so there is a space between the two
stones and the raised stone is still in play, one
(1) point.
Hit-and-roll
• The thrower will attempt to hit a stationary stone on the outside of the 12-foot circle
and roll toward the button. Points will be
awarded as follows: The stationary stone is
removed from play and the played stone stops
on any portion of the button, five (5) points;
the stationary stone is removed from play and
the played stone stops in any portion of the
four-foot circle, four (4) points; the stationary
stone is removed from play and the played
stone stops in any portion of the eight-foot
circle, three (3) points; the stationary stone is
removed from play and the played stone stops
in any portion of the 12-foot circle, two (2)
points; the stationary stone is removed from
play and the played stone does not stop in any
portion of the rings, one (1) point.
Double-takeout
• The thrower will attempt a double takeout. The thrower must move both of the
stationary stones out of the rings. Points
will be awarded as follows: Both stationary
stones are eliminated from the rings and the
played stone stops on any portion of the button, five (5) points; both stationary stones
are eliminated from the rings and the played
stone stops in any portion of the four-foot
circle, four (4) points; both stationary stones
stone stops in any portion of the eight-foot
circle, three (3) points; both stationary stones
stone stops in any portion of the 12-foot
circle, two (2) points; both stationary stones
stone does not stop in any portion of the
rings, one (1) point.
SKINS COMPETITION
Aggressive strategy combined with exceptional shotmaking should be the highlight of
this final battle for points. Each gender will
play three games but the points value will
vary from game to game, dependent on a
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team’s designation in A, B, or C group.
In addition, the two mixed skins games will
involve teams comprised of two curlers from
the A group, two from the B group and four
from the C group.
POINTS
• The total points available are 260 (130
points for each gender); the men’s and women’s games A will be worth 20 points each;
the men’s and women’s games B will be
worth 30 points each; the men’s and women’s
games C will be worth 55 points each.
• The breakdown of points within each
game will be as follows:
GAME A - 20 points total
6
2
7
4
8
6
6
4
7
6
8
9
6
8
7
10
8
12
scores only one point when it has last stone,
it not only loses the hammer but the end goes
into carryover mode — the points at stake are
carried over to the next end with last stone
going to the opponent. If the final end of a
skins game results in a carryover, the two
teams will determine who will claim the carryover points by selecting a player from each
team to deliver one stone to the button with
sweeping. The team that had last stone in the
last end will shoot first. The stone that stops
nearest the centre of the button will claim the
carryover points. Normal World Curling Federation sweeping rules apply to the throwing
side; the opponent cannot sweep behind the
tee-line.
RULES
• Each game will consist of eight ends;
each team will be allocated 64 minutes per
game; if a team exceeds the allotted time, the
game will be stopped, each team will retain
the points already earned in the game and the
remaining points will be forfeited to the nonviolating team.
• Each end is referred to as a skin. To
count a skin when a team has last stone, it
must count a minimum of two points. When
a team does not have last stone, it must score
at least one point to count a skin. If a team
PRIZE MONEY
Total prize-money is $91,000. The winning
side is guaranteed $52,000. The losing side
is guaranteed $26,000. Additionally, the final
men’s skins game will be played for a winnertake-all purse of $13,000
The competition involves four disciplines
within the sport of curling, each worth a designated number of points — team games (72
points), mixed doubles (36 points), singles
(32 points) skins games (260 points). The first
side to reach 201 points of the possible 400
up for grabs is declared the winner. End 1
Points 1
2
1
3
2
4
2
5
2
GAME B - 30 points total
End 1
Points 1
2
1
3
3
4
3
5
3
GAME C - 55 points total
End 1
Points 4
2
4
3
5
4
6
5
6
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Continental Cup Flashback • 2007 • Medicine Hat, Alberta • N.A. 290/Europe 110
T
Big day of skins gives N.A. the win
eam North America won the fifth
edition of the Continental Cup
in December, 2007, at Medicine
Hat, AB, Canada, by the largest margin in
the history of the event.
After the conclusion of the two 55-point
women’s and men’s Skins games on the
final day, the closing tally read North
America 290, Europe 110.
The result broke open a 2-2 tie in previous jousts with each team having prevailed twice since the event was inaugurated in 2002.
North America took the inaugural ‘Cup’
in Regina in 2002 by a score of 207-193, a
competition which came down to the last
rock in the last end of the final men’s skins
game. Europe prevailed in 2003 in Thunder Bay, winning 208-179, while North
America rebounded in 2004 in Medicine
Hat, when an attendance record of 42,317
was set, notching a 228-172 victory. The
four-day attendance at the Hat for the
2007 event was 26,810.
In 2006 at Chilliwack, it was Europe’s
turn to even the score, winning 229-171,
as all of the curling medallists from the
2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino
participated.
The final day’s play in Continental
Cup V became a mere formality since the
hosts had clinched the Cup on the previous night’s draw by scooping most of the
points from three 30-point skins games to
reach 210 points, nine more than necessary to claim the trophy.
The final women’s skins game pitted
then reigning world women’s champion
Kelly Scott from Kelowna, B.C., against
2007 world bronze medallist and European championship runner-up Kelly Wood
of Scotland. After splitting earlier matches
in normal team games, Wood a slim 22-21
lead in the skins heading into the final
end but Scott was able to make a soft tap
for a deuce with her last stone, taking a
12-point skin in the process to make the
final score 33-22.
The men’s final, featuring 2007 world
champion Glenn Howard of Canada and
European champion David Murdoch
of Scotland, was no contest. Although
Murdoch jumped out to an 8-0 lead after
taking a carryover skin in the second
end, it was all Howard from there — the
Canadians taking the remaining six skins
in running up a 47-8 final score.
The Continental Cup, roughly patterned
on golf’s Ryder Cup, involves four disciplines within the sport, each worth a designated number of points - Team Games
(72 points), Mixed Doubles (36 points),
Singles (32 points) and Skins Games (260
points). The first side to score 201 is
declared the winner. Each member of the
winning side receives $2,000, while the
losing side members get $1,400 each from
the $88,400 total purse.
The overall results showed North
America netting 199 out of 260 available points in Skins (men’s, women’s and
mixed), 28 out of 32 points in singles, 27
out of 36 points in mixed doubles and 36
of 72 points in team games.
North America clinched the victory in
North Americas Kelly Scott helped start the tide in Medicine Hat, beating
World’s Kelly Wood, before Glenn Howard capped with win with a win over
David Murdoch.
Day Three by taking 73 of 90 available
points in preliminary skins competition
to conclude the evening session with 210
points, nine more than needed to win.
The end came late, but quickly, as all
three skins games fashioned eighth-end
dramatics.
The first game to finish was the men’s
affair involving Randy Ferbey and Andy
Kapp of Germany. Ferbey led 11-10, with
a nine-point skin on the line. When Kapp
tried but missed an angle raise with his
last rock, Ferbey’s counters gave the skin
to North America, making the final score
20-10 and moving the overall score at that
moment to 180-80.
Then it was over to the mixed skins
game, where Howard and Andreas
Schwaller of Switzerland were playing
the eighth end, worth 15 points after a seventh-end carryover. Howard made a raisedouble-takeout with his last rock, forcing
Schwaller, with hammer, to attempt a
draw to the button, just to force the game
to a tiebreaking procedure (closest to the
button). But Schwaller’s stone appeared
to pick up debris halfway down the sheet,
handing the 15-point skin and the 24-6
final result to North America on a steal.
That moved the host point total to 195.
That left the issue to the women’s skins,
where Debbie McCormick of Madison,
Wis., led Liudmila Privivkova of Russia
14-1, with another 15-point skin on the
line, once again because of a seventh-end
carryover.
Privivkova watched her final stone float
between two others while trying to rub
and roll, leaving McCormick, the 2003
world champion, a soft tap and roll to
count a deuce and net the skin. The game
score read 29-1, the overall score 210-80.
“I actually didn’t know that shot was to
win (it all), so I didn’t really think about
it,” said McCormick later. “We had a great
feeling all weekend. This is my third Continental Cup, so I’m really excited to get
a gold medal and my name on the trophy
(for the first time).”
McCormick enjoyed a banner three
days. She teamed with Scott Pfeifer to
win a mixed doubles match in Day One’s
first draw, twice defeated Denmark’s
Angelina Jensen in women’s team games,
and won her singles competition over
Privivkova before skinning her Russian
rival again.
Said North America captain Pat Ryan,
himself a three-time Brier and two-time
world champion:
“It takes the pressure off. I can’t complain. If you can win, you win as fast as
you can and get it over with. They (the
players) were all great; they played like a
team’s supposed to. Just a great bunch of
people, we had a lot of fun.”
“What can I say?” asked a disappointed
Europe captain, Rhona Martin, who won
Olympic gold in 2002. “We were beaten
by the better team. We knew it would be
an uphill struggle. We had two teams that
have never played skins in their lives. We
just had to keep fighting and make them
have to play shots. I’m pretty gutted that
this is the way it turned out. But from the
first day, we knew, everybody here knew,
that it was going to happen. It was a case
of when, not if.”
World 290, Europe 110
The players and the points
contributed
NORTH AMERICA
Glenn Howard (87), Richard Hart
(60), Brent Laing (81), Craig Savill
(57), Coldwater, Canada. Total:
285.
Kelly Scott (58), Jeanna Schraeder (64), Sasha Carter (42), Renee
Simons (39), Kelowna, Canada.
Total: 203.
Debbie McCormick (51), Allison
Pottinger (45), Nicole Joraanstad
(45), Natalie Nicholson (45), Madison, Wis. U.S.A. Total: 186.
Randy Ferbey (28), David Nedohin
(47), Scott Pfeifer (53), Marcel
Rocque (28), Edmonton, Canada.
Total: 156.
Jennifer Jones (52), Cathy
Overton-Clapham (52), Jill Officer
(22), Dawn Askin (22), Winnipeg,
Canada. Total: 148.
Todd Birr (25), Bill Todhunter
(25), Greg Johnson (10), Kevin
Birr (19), Mankato, Minn. U.S.A.
Total: 79.
WORLD
Kelly Wood (30), Jackie Lockhart
(35), Lorna Vevers (32), Lindsay
Wood (35), Stirling, Scotland.
Total: 132.
Andy Kapp (26), Andreas Lang
(33), Holger Hohne (20), Andreas
Kempf (20), Fussenm Germany.
Total: 99
Andreas Schwaller (21), Ralph
Stoeckli (21), Thomas Lips (15),
Damian Grichting (15), Baden,
Switzerland. Total: 72.
Angelina Jensen (12), Madeleine
Dupont (14), Denise Dupont (18),
Camilla Jensen (12), Tarnby,
Denmark. Total: 56.
David Murdoch (9), Niklas Edin
(8), Peter Smith (8), Euan Byers
(8), Lockerbie, Scotland. Total:
33.
Liudmila Privivkova (7), Olga
Jarkova (7), Nkeiruka Ezekh (7),
Ekaterina Galkina (8), Moscow,
Russia. Total: 29.
MIXED DOUBLES
SINGLES
North America 28 (including
8-point bonus), World 4
TEAMS
SKINS
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World Financial Group Continental Cup Notebook
T
Locker room quote/unquote
The Morning Cup
wo-time Euro champion Thomas
Ulsrud of Norway, on mixed
doubles:
“If I was going to play this all the time,
I’d have to have a really good female curler with me, that’s for sure. Like Cecilia
(Swedish partner Ostlund on Thursday).
She had to draw the four-foot cold and she
put it there. And there are times, a lot of
times, when you need that. That helped us
pull off a tie and that was good for us.”
•••
Veteran Ontario champion Glenn Howard of Coldwater, on the Team World edict
to refrain from hoisting any cool ones
until the end of the competition:
“I don’t get it. I’m still old-school,
eh? If you want to have a drink, so have
a drink. I guess they struggled a bit last
year and maybe there were a couple of
instances they didn’t like. They didn’t like
the performance and I guess they’re trying
to come up with an angle to make them
play better. I don’t agree with it. We’re
grown adults. I think we should be able to
manage ourselves and figure out what it is
we have to do to win. That’s what we’re
going to do with Team North America.
But, maybe this is the next sort of step
we’re going to see in the game. Again, I
think you monitor yourself. Moderation is
a good thing. But maybe it’s the next level
— no drinking, no alcohol, maybe it is the
Olympic way.”
•••
Stefanie Lawton
Saskatoon’s Stefanie Lawton, on a different kind of curling event:
“It’s so exciting to play in this. There
were a whole bunch of kids in the stands
and all of them were cheering. There’s a
lot of camaraderie across the sheets. Like,
you’re high-fivin’. It’s so much fun. The
bench is cheering for you. It’s a blast. It’s
a privilege to be here and I hope they can
continue this event. It’s completely dif-
EAR
ferent from the competitions we normally
play.
•••
Sweden’s two-time Olympic gold-medal
winner Anette Norberg, on why she failed
to represent Sweden at last month’s Euros
after winning last year’s Worlds:
“Coach Peja (Lindholm) picks the teams
in Sweden now, based on the results of the
competitions we played — it’s a different
system — and we didn’t play that well in
the tournaments leading up to the Euros,
so we weren’t picked for that. We lost in
an extra end (to Margaretha Sigfriddson)
in a quarter-final at Oslo. Then they had a
good tournament in Basel and we didn’t.”
And, on playing a second season with her
new young lineup after years of skipping
a veteran lineup that won two gold medals
and as many world titles: “It’s great fun to
play with these young girls but it’s a very
different dynamic because our old team . .
. we knew each other so well . So it’s quite
a change, actually. Winning the Worlds
in our first season (last year at Esbjerg,
Denmark) was quite unexpected.”
•••
U,.S. skip Pete Fenson of Bemidji,
Minn., on curling’s ‘drinking’ image at the
Olympic Games:
“Nobody can have a beer after the
game? We don’t operate like that. But we
keep our heads, you know? Maybe the
Olympics has something to do with it. It’s
such a big carrot now. There are countries
focused on the Olympics, they fund their
athletes and run them hard and they want
medals. Countries want medals, bottom
line. We’ve been told, here’s the funding,
we want medals. That’s it. So it has become a little more serious. But everybody
handles it a little differently. We didn’t
spend a lot of time in the Olympic village
(2006) but I didn’t see any drinks there.
It might have been dry, actually. But we
were 20 minutes away so it wasn’t really
an issue for us. I know we didn’t drink
there at all. I know when we went there
we expected to introduce ourselves as
curlers and get that look, you know. Like,
curlers? But we got there and everybody
was everybody. It was all under control.
Everybody got along. There was none of
the is-that-a-beer type of thing. But it’s
different for everybody, you know? The
camaraderie and the beers afterward, it’s
one of the things about curling we enjoy.
•••
Scotland’s youthful Eve Muirhead, on
her first Canada Cup appearance:
“I was selected to play last year but I
had to give it a miss because I was still
playing in Juniors. But I think this is an
event that all curlers really want to play
in. It’s different than normal curling. It’s
more laid back. It’s fun. You can just
come and enjoy yourself. And for it to be
in Canada all the time, it’s really special
for us. Because curling in Canada — everyone wants to do that.”
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Continental
Cup trivia time
have won (excluding
alternates) world junior
championships and the
years each was the victor.
4. Name the only player
in the current Continental
Cup who was born in
Lahr, Germany
5. One of the 12 skips
in the current Continental Cup has defeated
the eventual champion
in world championship
competition three times.
Name the skip.
6. Name the three
champ skips beaten
and the years of those
setbacks.
7. Three of the 12 skips
in the current Continental
Cup have twice defeated
the eventual champion
in world championship
competition. Name the
three.
8. One of these four beat
the champ twice in the
same world championship. The name, and the
champ she beat?
9. All right, now name the
champions each defeated and the year(s) of the
conquests.
10. There is one threetime world champion skip
on the premises at this
Continental Cup. Name
him.
Kasner (2003), Brent Laing
(1998, 1999), Eve Muirhead
(2007, 2008, 2009, 2011),
Craig Savill (1998, 1999), Anna
Sloan (2009, 2011),
4. Craig Savill.
5. Patti Lank.
6. Elisabet Gustafson (1999),
Colleen Jones (2004), Anette
Norberg (2011).
7. Pete Fenson, Thomas Ulsrud, Bingyu Wang.
1. Niklas Edin, Sweden; Cristoffer Svae, Norway; Eve Muirhead, Scotland — four world
junior appearances each.
2. Torger Nergard, Thomas
Ulsrud, Havard Petersson Norway; Anna Sloan, Vicki Adams,
Scotland — three world junior
appearances each.
3. Vicki Adams (2008, 2009,
2011), Tom Brewster (1995),
Niklas Edin (2004), Marliese
1. Three players competing in the current Continental Cup have participated in more world
junior championships
than any other. Name
the curlers, home nations
and the number of junior
championships.
2. Name the players
competing in the current
Continental Cup who
has participated in the
second-most world junior
championships. Also the
player’s home nations
and the number of junior
championships.
3. Name those players
competing in the current
Continental Cup who
Answers
8. Wang twice beat champion Jennifer Jones in 2008 at
Vernon.
9. Fenson beat Randy Ferbey
in 2005 and David Murdoch in
2006; Martin beat David Smith
in 1991 and Peja Lindholm
in 1997; Ulsrud beat Wayne
Middaugh in 1998 and David
Murdoch in 2006.
10. Peja Lindholm.
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