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Broadcast schedule: https://worldcurling.org/2022/04/wmdcc-broadcast/

Teams: https://worldcurling.org/events/wmd...?pageType=teams

DSC (in progress): https://curlit.com/WMDCC/aspnet/DSC.aspx?EventID=1

Format is similar to last year: 2 pools, top 3 of each pool qualify for playoff, #2 crosses over to play #3, winner challenges #1 in semifinal, winners of semifinals play for gold, losers play for bronze.

#10 is relegated, losers of 8v9 crossover are also relegated.

This is my favorite curling event to watch! So many brothers/sisters and life couples teams! So many strong non-traditional curling nations! Relegation also makes the stakes higher than World Men's & Women's.

Any predictions?

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Number of pool games broadcasted per country:

9x: JPN, SUI, USA
4x: CAN
3x: ITA, KOR
2x: DEN, CZE, ENG, EST, FIN, NOR, NZL, SCO, SWE
1x: AUS, ESP, HUN, GER, TUR

All 20 teams are featured at least once in the 30 broadcasts.

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I think we will defend the title from last year. Go SCOTLAND!!

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My personal wish list of bonkers scenarios that I want to see happen:

* A 6-ender
* A blanked end
* A tied measurement
* A team switching throwing order
* England defeats Scotland
* Italy goes undefeated

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I think by far the biggest story here is how will Italy follow up that Olympic run. I'm taking Sweden, Switzerland and Italy to come out of group a. Dark gorse is Estonia. That's q very good team and could easily take one 9f the 3 spots

In group b I'll take canada Scotland and Australia to qualify but this 8s a far harder group to predict. Scotland and Canada feel fairly safe but the US, Germany and Hungary all have legit chances to grab that 3rd spot

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I'm torn between wanting Peterman/Gallant to do well, because I like them, and wanting Canada to do poorly, so it has one more reason to fix its broken mixed doubles system.

Maybe a bronze would be a good compromise between the two.

I would be happy for Peterman/Gallant if they win gold, but sad for Canada because it means nothing will change.

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CEOs of Curling Canada seem to have a life span of between 8 and 15 years. Henderson was only hired in 2015 so my guess is we have a few more years of her and her lackeys and their bad decision making. They are making Hansen look brilliant. It is beyone my comprehension that the many of the provincial associations think that she is fantastic and continue to support her bad decision making.

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Canadians Gallant and Peterman add world mixed doubles curling chase to already memorable year
https://torontosun.com/sports/curli...-memorable-year

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Canada has never won a world mixed doubles curling championship and has two silvers and two bronze to show for 13 years of competition.

Morris and Kaitlyn Lawes did win an Olympic gold in 2018, but it’s pretty clear from recent competitions that other countries are putting more into chasing success the mixed doubles discipline.

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They shoulda sent Homan and Johnny Mo.

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Photos from practice session suggests electronic handles will not be used in this event. It looks like hog line enforcement will be honor system again.

https://twitter.com/CoachPhill/stat...540553121878016
https://twitter.com/CurlingCanada/s...530336917442561

Also, ice looks empty with no sponsors. Not even on the buttons.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CckVooou45X/

It's a 5-sheet event, which we all know WCF is very capable of running (Europeans, Winter Universiades). It makes me wonder why the Olympics aren't also 5-sheets/10 teams, but that's another topic.

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https://www.britishcurling.org.uk/n...-mixed-doubles/
"Scotland open their campaign against former British Curling colleagues Team Fowler, brother and sister duo Ben and Anna who are making their sixth appearance together at the World Mixed Doubles Championship as England’s representatives."

Former? Did British Curling kick out the Fowlers from the national curling program? This is a surprise to me!

Sometimes I can't help but wonder if the British/Scottish curling system is quite broken. Scotland has been producing lots of medals for Great Britain, though, so maybe the answer is obviously no.

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Disaster for Olympic champions Italy as Amos Mosaner is ruled out with an injury suffered when hiking with his dog over Easter weekend.

He will be replaced by Sebastiano Arman.

Stefania Constantini is still the woman.



In other news, if Eve Muirhead wins this then she’s won everything. 2022 Olympic gold, 2013 world champion, European champion x3, Scottish champion x8, world junior champion x4, Scottish Mixed doubles champion 2022 and European mixed team champion 2012.

I think winning a mixed doubles world championships will cement her status as one of the all time greats.

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https://www.britishcurling.org.uk/n...-mixed-doubles/
"Scotland open their campaign against former British Curling colleagues Team Fowler, brother and sister duo Ben and Anna who are making their sixth appearance together at the World Mixed Doubles Championship as England’s representatives."

Former? Did British Curling kick out the Fowlers from the national curling program? This is a surprise to me!

Sometimes I can't help but wonder if the British/Scottish curling system is quite broken. Scotland has been producing lots of medals for Great Britain, though, so maybe the answer is obviously no.

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For this event, the.recast.app is offering what they call Light Coverage of every sheet in every draw, or at least they did in this one that just finished. For 25 cents off your account, you can get a feed showing two static cameras showing both ends of the sheet and wild sound from the arena. No fancy camera work, no commentary, but you can see what’s happening better than refreshing linescores, and like I said, it’s only 25 cents and you’ve got your pick of games.

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Muirhead and Lammie win the Battle of Britain, 8-3 over Fowler and, erm, other Fowler.


Let’s hope they meet again in the final

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This is a bit too early to make conclusions from, but Canada pinned their LSDs for their first game, the best effort overall so far in the event.

This may lead to credence the suggestion that Canada's DSC issues in Men's and Women's is not a skill issue, but a methodology issue. As Cathy Gauthier reported at World Women's, Canada is still just starting to get used to drawing on both sides of the sheet. Others have also reported that Canada has always believed that the pre-game practice session should be used to map the ice for hits and other shots, things that would be helpful in winning games, not just winning LSFE.

In mixed doubles, teams play so many draws to the 4-foot in actual game, which is often enough to win many games, so maybe there's no need to practice hits as much, so pre-game practice can be focused on LSD.

In any case, it looks like Canada is at least now using WCF's LSD procedure with 2 draws on both sides of the sheet. If Canada uses average instead of cumulative, they'd be identical to WCF in DSC procedure.

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For this event, the.recast.app is offering what they call Light Coverage of every sheet in every draw, or at least they did in this one that just finished. For 25 cents off your account, you can get a feed showing two static cameras showing both ends of the sheet and wild sound from the arena. No fancy camera work, no commentary, but you can see what’s happening better than refreshing linescores, and like I said, it’s only 25 cents and you’ve got your pick of games.

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It could just be a clumsily-worded way to say that for this event, with the constituent countries of the UK playing separately instead of under the GB umbrella, they are not teammates.

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Turkey and Finland played day 1 with the females throwing the middle 3 rocks.

No 6-ender yet, but we had a 5-ender power play already.

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https://www.britishcurling.org.uk/n...-mixed-doubles/
"Scotland open their campaign against former British Curling colleagues Team Fowler, brother and sister duo Ben and Anna who are making their sixth appearance together at the World Mixed Doubles Championship as England’s representatives."

Former? Did British Curling kick out the Fowlers from the national curling program? This is a surprise to me!

Sometimes I can't help but wonder if the British/Scottish curling system is quite broken. Scotland has been producing lots of medals for Great Britain, though, so maybe the answer is obviously no.

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From what I can tell the extent of the Fowlers involvement with British Curling was being able to train at the National Curling Academy in early 2021 when there was little opportunity to practice in England.

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4-0 baby!!!!!!! Scotland marching towards the playoffs

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