Olympics

[fates3]

I really had no interest in the Olympics this year.  I don't know why, as usually I love the Ice Skating, but this year I just was totally zoning out on it.

Until yesterday.

I was tired, and was waiting for a friend to come pick me up so we could go out to lunch together, and there was nothing I really wanted to get into on TV, so I just turned it to

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[mangokulfi]

Ha! I curled in high school. We all did. It was fun but man did you get cold.

The basic goal of the game is to get as many rocks as you can into the House (inside the rings) and to knock your opponents rocks out.

Points: Basically whoever is closest to the bullseye gets the point. If there you have two rocks in the house and one of your opponent's is closer than one of yours, but your other one is closest to the center, then you get one point. If you have four rocks inside the House and your opponents have none, you get four points. It's pretty straighforward.

The sweeping thing basically creates moisture on the ice which acts like a vacuum for the rock. So you can help it speed up or change direction slightly, that sort of thing.

It's a very simple game and small town in Canada has a curling rink and a skating rink. Even the really tiny towns have them and most everyone plays. Not so much in the big cities though since there are many more things to do. ;)

[fates3]

Is that it??? Thank you!! That clears up a lot of what I was watching, LOL!

Maybe you can answer this: are the points tallied at the end of the round, or at the beginning when you first throw your rock?

Like, say my team throws the rock and lands close to the bulls eye. And then the other team throws the rock and knocks my team's out and lands near the bulls eye. Are we both getting a point, even though they knocked mine out? Or are the points tallied at the very end?

That part I'm still a little confused on.

Thanks! It really was hypnotic to watch! Not sure I'd want to play though, I'm not one for the cold and walking on ice, LOL!

[mangokulfi]

Yeah the points are tallied at the end of each end (or round). If team a has four rocks in the house including the one that is closes to the center ring, but team b has one rock that is second closest to the center. Then team a gets 1 point and team b gets zero points for that end. Hope that makes sense. I think we need diagrams. :D

[fates3]

Yes, that does, thank you so much! I can now watch without feeling totally lost, LOL!

And yea, diagrams would probably help, LOL!

Thanks again :)