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"Directional Sweeping using a corn broom" Please say I didn't hear this from Bryan. Even the idea of it should be banned

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manitoba just all over BC tonight. not giving them a chance to sit anything up. tardi made some good shots to save the ends early but couldnt in the 5th

its a rough way to end a championship but it looks like they are ending on 4 straight losses.

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The thing there is that manitoba is not that much better than everyone else that they could have done that. british columbia and northern ontario are both very good teams as well. i picked BC to win and i called a bc /manitoba final but i did think northern ontario would also be in the picture..didnt think they'd finish first though.

Manitoba has won the last 3 titles and thats bound to run out at some point. i think you are right and manitoba will make the final but i dont think they'll win.

id like to see new brunswick win their semi and have an all atlantic final on the womens side

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The truth is, MB is that much better than everyone else in the field. There is no other boys team at the event that would/could have beat Mike McEwen twice in the same bonspiel.

I think the MB vs. NO final might be a reasonable game but I think the round robin meeting between those two teams was MB's blip on the week and I think they will win the final, perhaps as definitively as they beat BC this evening and no, I'm not from Manitoba, I'm just an objective observer.

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Even though Tardi lost to Dunstone..
it was very clear..through his teams success and Sarah Daniels
getting into the final.. that BC curling has a bright future again.

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thank you Adrian MacNair / South Delta Leader... for this
article about Sarah Daniels ( 16 years old) :

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Sarah's ambitions rise above becoming national champions
"I want to be able to play at the world level, for juniors
and for women, when I get into ladies curling," says Sarah.
"And I would also really like to some day get to the Olympics representing Team Canada."

There are many Canadian female curlers who have made a big name for themselves internationally, but Sarah says she enjoys watching Eve Muirhead, who is the skip for the Scottish national team. "She's a very young curler, she's in her early twenties, and she's won quite a lot at her young age. She really inspires me."

Accomplishments

-2 time CurlBC Junior Female athlete of the Year (2013 and 2014)
-Representing BC at the 2015 Canada Winter Games
-Champion, 2014 Canada Winter Games Playdowns
-Silver Medal, 2014 Canadian Jr Championships, Liverpool,NS
-First Team All-Star, 2014 Canadian Junior Championships
-Gold Medal, 2014 BC Junior Provincial Championships
-2 time BC High School Provincial Champion (Seaquam Secondary 2013 and 2014)
-Gold Medal, 2013 U18 Optimist International Championship, Langley, British Columbia
-Gold Medal, 2013 BC Juvenile Provincials
-Bronze Medal, 2013 BC Junior Provincial Championships
-Participant, 2013 Canadian National Mixed Doubles Trials, Leduc, Alberta
-Bronze Medal, 2013 BC Mixed Doubles Provincials
-Delta Sports Hall of Fame - 2013 Team of the Year

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well..it wasnt the best final in terms quality but in terms of drama and excitement it was great . roller coaster, with each team trading momentum.

congrats to team Fay and good luck. will be a really busy schedule for her with repping canada at both the youth olympics games and world juniors.

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by the way. there was no need to air that segment on easily the worst thing to happen to music during the womens final. even if he was from there. leave him out of a curling discussion

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Mary and her front end have been together for 6 years
with the additon of Kristin Clarke at Third this season.

This is the fourth Nova Scotia Jr Women's Canadian winner in history
A very welcome end to a 12 year dry spell

Hope this extremely talented Team stays together

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tanner horgan ..if he wins would he be the first skip from northern ontario to do so?

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tanner horgan ..if he wins would he be the first skip from northern ontario to do so?

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No, 4 have already done it, Jeff Currie in 96 was the last to do so.

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Mary and her front end have been together for 6 years
with the additon of Kristin Clarke at Third this season.

This is the fourth Nova Scotia Jr Women's Canadian winner in history
A very welcome end to a 12 year dry spell

Hope this extremely talented Team stays together

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Uh oh, NO just wrecked on the guard to give up 3, not sure if this directional sweeping really helps. Now down 6-2 to (quoting Manitoba Legend ) to the MB Monsters. That skip really is extraordinary - Isn't that team also in the men's play downs?

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Horgan can't seem to draw and the one sweeper is killing any chance his rocks may have.
Game is Daniel in the lions den so far.

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Teams in MB tankard:

http://viterrachampionship.ca/teams

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Man I have to admit that is quite the MB team in Dunstone. He was gifted some points unfortunately by Horgan, but I'm not sure in the end that it would have mattered.

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Great job by Teams Manitoba and Nova Scotia! Congratulations on the championships. A four-peat for Manitoba! Also congrats to Teams B.C. for the women and N. Ont. for the men. You did your provinces proud!

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Andrew Atherton , Coach for NS won the Jr Womens - he is the grandson of my fathers best friend and cousin .. probably a fifth cousin to me

Matt is the grandson of Jim who i used to curl with in the last century ..

its nice when close family emerges victorious

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The thing there is that manitoba is not that much better than everyone else that they could have done that. british columbia and northern ontario are both very good teams as well. i picked BC to win and i called a bc /manitoba final but i did think northern ontario would also be in the picture..didnt think they'd finish first though.

Manitoba has won the last 3 titles and thats bound to run out at some point. i think you are right and manitoba will make the final but i dont think they'll win.

id like to see new brunswick win their semi and have an all atlantic final on the womens side

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I don't think you could have been further off. Manitoba was much better. They looked like one of the better junior teams we have seen in many years. I think you overreacted to them having one bad game, albeit they only lost in an extra end.

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The Dunstone team really is a special group and quite a bit ahead of the field. While they did lose in the round-robin, it's not hard to see the length of the week play into that a bit, as a let down can happen.

They showed in the playoffs how much better they are, handling both the semifinal and final quite easily.

Some other background on Dunstone that shows their strength, they played 4 World Curling Tour events, going 21-6 overall and getting wins over McEwen (x2), Bottcher, Fenson, Brewster and many other quality men's teams.
http://www.worldcurl.com/teams.php?...962&view=Scores

They're the real deal and should be a contender to reach the Viterra Championship playoffs as well.

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The Pool play needs to go, it is not fair to the teams that attend and is even less fair to those that don't get to!
Some teams play in stronger pools and the schedule is not fair trying to get all the first pool games in by Tuesday. Some teams play four games in a row while other only play two and get a break all because they have to jam the first pool games in.
After that they split a portion of the teams off to play in a "Seeding Pool" which is a polite way to say Thanks for coming but these games do not really count, even though at least one team in the seeding pool ended up with a better record than the bottom of the Championship Pool!

Then they slip in the Mixed Doubles that Im sure quite a few of the kids is a waste of time and they would rather not play!

The World Curling Federation has a "Junior B" tryout for teams that do not make the top ten why can't Curl Canada do this as then the National Championship could return to a round robin with a page playoff. Also why does Ontario get an extra team?
CC Claims that all provinces need equal representation but then they add an extra for team Ontario......Stupid! Get rid of Northern Ont and have the territory's play down for one spot!

Wake up Curling Canada maybe if it was a true best of the best competition you might actually keep a sponsor!

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The Pool play needs to go, it is not fair to the teams that attend and is even less fair to those that don't get to!
Some teams play in stronger pools and the schedule is not fair trying to get all the first pool games in by Tuesday. Some teams play four games in a row while other only play two and get a break all because they have to jam the first pool games in.
After that they split a portion of the teams off to play in a "Seeding Pool" which is a polite way to say Thanks for coming but these games do not really count, even though at least one team in the seeding pool ended up with a better record than the bottom of the Championship Pool!

Then they slip in the Mixed Doubles that Im sure quite a few of the kids is a waste of time and they would rather not play!

The World Curling Federation has a "Junior B" tryout for teams that do not make the top ten why can't Curl Canada do this as then the National Championship could return to a round robin with a page playoff. Also why does Ontario get an extra team?
CC Claims that all provinces need equal representation but then they add an extra for team Ontario......Stupid! Get rid of Northern Ont and have the territory's play down for one spot!

Wake up Curling Canada maybe if it was a true best of the best competition you might actually keep a sponsor!

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I see you're a first-time poster so based on your comments, I'm leaning towards thinking that you were a participant in this event and that something transpired during the week to sour you on the format.

I can honestly say that I'm not a fan of the format, but to suggest that in the end it's not a "best of the best competition" is quite a distance from the truth. All the best teams end up playing each other and in the end a champion is determined so this is still a championship that determines the best of the best.

The fact that a seeding pool team ended up with a better record than a championship pool team is moot. The seeding pool team that ended up with a supposed better record than a championship pool team played their final three games against the three worst teams from the pool they were originally not in. The championship pool team that ended up with a supposed worse record than a seeding pool team played their final four games against the top four teams from the pool they were not originally in. Which team do you suppose had "easier" competition in their last few games?

I'd like to see this championship return to a full round robin event but with the logistics of running a dual-gender event with 14 teams on each side makes it difficult. If you could always guarantee getting 10 sheets of ice like what was available this year, then it could be possible, but I don't believe Curling Canada can guarantee that. The modified event that is currently in place only requires 8 sheets of ice to pull it off.

As for one game days and two game days, it's going to happen in this format. Teams need to play six games over the first four days. Figure it out - some days you're going to have two games; some days you're going to have one. In fact, in the 8 sheet scenario, some team(s) actually have three 2-game days and a day where they do not play at all.

Curling Canada is trying to make the best of a situation that is not ideal. They want representation from all provinces and territories (yes, I agree with you, why does Ontario get two spots) and when that happens, they are not in a situation where they believe a full round robin is not doable over the timeframe that the event has been targeted to run in.

As for the event's current format and that contributing to losing a long-term sponsor, I seriously doubt that had any impact since the sponsor's main bang for the buck came from the TV exposure of the championship final and since the semi finals are now also being broadcast (this year and last year) you would think that would have been additional incentive to stay on board as a sponsor. There is little benefit to a sponsor what format is used in the preliminary portion of the competition.

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No I was not involved, I am not a player I am just a fan that is tired of the BS that CC has become.

What I am trying to saying is that a complete round robin with a fairly even schedule (lose Nu, NO, NWT, YK) will allow for more true representation of the full field and give everyone that deserves to be there a honest shot at making the playoff and eventual championship.

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