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Fredericton, NB
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Draw: 6 -- Mon, Mar 18 -- 7:00pm AT
Gagn/Mori Final
Rees/Ches (EE)
Sand/Crai Final
Gamb/Kalt (8)
Arms/Grif Final
Pete/Gall (7) Watch Live Curling!
Zhen/Piet Final
Gion/Desj (7)
Wasy/Koni Final
Jone/Lain (EE)
Wise/Smit 12  Final
Weag/Eppi (6)
Lott/Lott 12  Final
Bouc/Char (7)
Krev/Math Final
Whit/Whit (6)
M: Aberdeen International Curling Championship
Aberdeen, SCO
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Draw: CF -- Sun, Mar 17 -- 2:45pm GMT
Mouat Final
Shuster (7)
W: Biktrix Saskatchewan Senior Women's Curling Championship
Martensville, SK
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Draw: CF -- Sun, Mar 17 -- 3:00pm MT
Foster Final
Streifel (8) Watch Live Curling!
W: CCAA / Curling Canada College Championships
Sudbury, ON
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Draw: CF -- Sat, Mar 16 -- 2:30pm AT
Southern Alberta IoT Final
Concordia U (10)
UofA - Augustana Final
Humber College (10)
D: WCT Slovakia Mixed Doubles Cup II
Bratislava, SVK
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Draw: CF -- Sun, Mar 17 -- 12:00pm CET
Han/Zou Final
Paul/Paul (7)
Cihl/Mace Final
Yang/Tian 10  (6)
: NWTCA Mixed
Yellowknife, NT
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Draw: 4 -- Sun, Mar 17 -- 10:00am MT
Delorey Final
Koe (5)
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05-11-16 05:18PM
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Headed up for my officiating stints Thursday through Saturday as soon as I finish up some business at the office here.

Question for anyone on site who can answer: How warm/cold is it at the *timer* stations? That's always the most variable job, temperaturewise, if I understood the preevent brief correctly, it's on the ice, so probably at least chilly, but I wanna know for sure before I overpack my winter gear

Already have to bring some, since I'm on-ice observer/official for a couple draws as well...but do I need to bring 3 days worth?



The clocks and timers are behind the boards and off the ice but the arena is pretty cold. The most comfortable looking people in the stands are under blankets.

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A paper club is a club that exists on " paper" , which means they have a membership but do not have a dedicated curling facility and thus rent ice, usually ice hockey facilities. We have one or two in our area.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis...e_United_States



Unless someone changed Wikipedia since you posted, it doesn't support your statement.

A paper club does not have a place to play and run leagues. Arena clubs have a home they just don't own their home and play on multi-use ice.

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We call paper clubs ones that dont have a dedicated facility to play. Can these clubs enter teams into the mens or womens national championships? Can curling clubs enter into the arena championships?

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We call paper clubs ones that dont have a dedicated facility to play. Can these clubs enter teams into the mens or womens national championships? Can curling clubs enter into the arena championships?


Arena clubs can send teams to playdowns for the main event club nationals, or an arena team can try to earn oom points to get into the main nationals (though neither situation happens for the most part)

Teams from dedicated curling clubs cannot play in the arena national championships.

The rule on eligibility is on the bottom of this post The intent of this rule is that you should not add players to your arena team who truly play leagues at dedicated clubs. The wording is odd, because due to club locations, there are some people who play in leagues at both a dedicated and arena club. Some arenas drive a long way to get 1 draw a week on good ice for example.



Section 3.2. Event Eligibility: U.S. citizenship or residency is required. In addition to the USCA membership requirements in Section II, all team members must be dues-paying, league-playing members of the same USCA arena curling club. The USCA has not adopted a strict definition for a league-playing member of a club. Each region (or state) should determine who is acting in good faith in claiming to be a league-playing club member and each qualifying entrant must comply with his or her region’s ruling.
Each team may have a maximum of two players who are league playing, dues paying members of the arena curling club they represent and also curl at a dedicated ice facility. Stick curlers are not eligible to compete. Wheelchair curlers are allowed to compete, but must adhere to wheelchair curling rules.

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So wheelchair curlers can play but stick players can not. Does it have to be a full wheelchair team?

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So wheelchair curlers can play but stick players can not. Does it have to be a full wheelchair team?


There is a general rule in USA curling that states "May not be used in any USCA National Championship or any qualifying event, except wheelchair events." so they are banned in Juniors, Arenas, Clubc, Mixed, Nationals, seniors, etc. This is consistent with the WCF rule "The delivery stick may not be used in any WCF competition or qualifying event, except wheelchair events."

But if someone was disabled and in a wheelchair, arenas would allow them to participate on a team with non wheel chair curlers, just that the 1 wheelchair curler would follow wheelchair rules, and the non wheelchair curler woudl follow other rules.

Please dont turn this thread into a debate abotu stick curling. Start a separate one if you want to. Lets focus on the event

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not doing that at all, but it says a wheelchair curler has to follow wheelchair rules so teammates could not sweep that players rock?

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Back from a couple of days at the event. Some great shotmaking out there for sure. Wonderful support for teams on the ice from other teams in the stands.

I should also know better then to hang out with the ice crew. They were shorthanded yesterday morning so I got recruited to help out. Kevin is doing a great job and the ice was keen. Not a ton of curl but enough to make shots. The ice crew did 10 floods in the rink to get the ice ready. For those not in the ice tech world, that is well over 10,000 gallons of water that needed to be applied to make the ice level.

Really cool to see 38 teams parade onto the ice for the opening.

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glad to hear your feedback jhcurl. What I was impressed by at the event, is that despite the stereotype that arena curlers are not as good as dedicated ice curlers, there are many arena curlers who can hold their own against any dedicated curler.

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Curlinggeek will have games from the 6:30pm and 10:00pm draws tonight. Going to be a late night for the ladies tonight.

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GO EASTIES!

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PS ok and Cincinnati as they have Easties and Detroit because I like those guys and OK who did not bring in the ringer from England and California just because and probably the rest of country as well. Whatever...

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We're up to three geeks at the event. Should make for good coverage right through the playoffs.

Live now: KC vs SF. https://games.curlinggeek.com/broadcast/1165

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Man there are some out of whack scores there.

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Just got back from my officiating sting, and now that I can't be accused of favoritism...

That was, frankly, fun.

Yep, some games were...well...lopsided....but there were also some clutch shots to win tight games (Virginia's ladies team's hit and stick to beat Oklahoma at Midnight last night comes to mind, as do a lot of the other games decided in the 8th...or even the 9th.

This event is always going to be hard to seed to avoid these blowouts, because the classification "arena clubs" is crazy wide...you've got clubs who are lucky to get one weeknight evening a week to have one or two draws on ice scraped by a dull zamboni blade and stones that have seen better decades against clubs who have solid working relationships with multiple ice rinks and multiple leagues running with ice techs that *get it* and take action to make the ice reasonable...then you put them all together on ice that is not quite as prepped as Open National's or World's ice, but is pretty damned close (25 second draws, reasonable curl, good performing rocks, and an attentive ice crew...can't really ask for much more given the schedule only allowing a rushed between game work session by the ice crew), and there's gonna be 13-0 up on the board a time or two...

However, that being said, every single curler I saw out there was having the time of their life, even the teams that went 0-5 had a blast.

This is a great event, a celebration of an underrecognized curling asset to the nation, and an asset to the USCA's catalog. I wish there was an equivalent for "Open" curling (no, Club Nationals doesn't quite cut it, due to qualifiers and only one team per region...it's a *Championship*, and teams treat it like one...don't get me wrong, the teams here were fighting for a Trophy and a National Title, but they were having fun doing it)

Some of the curlers out there are ready for the next level (and I know some of them are already working on it, good for them!)

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Ummm...can someone say EASTIES!

Pittsburgh with Gold for the men and Bronze for the women. Nice job and from all I have heard a great event that was a blast for all that played.

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Draw: 6 -- Mon, Mar 18 -- 7:00pm AT
Gagn/Mori Final
Rees/Ches (EE)
Sand/Crai Final
Gamb/Kalt (8)
Arms/Grif Final
Pete/Gall (7) Watch Live Curling!
Zhen/Piet Final
Gion/Desj (7)
Wasy/Koni Final
Jone/Lain (EE)
Wise/Smit 12  Final
Weag/Eppi (6)
Lott/Lott 12  Final
Bouc/Char (7)
Krev/Math Final
Whit/Whit (6)
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Aberdeen, SCO
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Draw: CF -- Sun, Mar 17 -- 2:45pm GMT
Mouat Final
Shuster (7)
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Bratislava, SVK
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Draw: CF -- Sun, Mar 17 -- 12:00pm CET
Han/Zou Final
Paul/Paul (7)
Cihl/Mace Final
Yang/Tian 10  (6)
: NWTCA Mixed
Yellowknife, NT
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