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I still don't know what I'm looking at when watching this sport.

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At least they put a good effort into making it SEEM exciting...

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The basics of Curling are:
4 persons per team, each person throws two rocks.
You play 10 ends, much like baseball innings
You score points in the house. The team with the closest rock scores one point. If your team has the two closest rocks, you score two, etc. When an opposing teams rock is the next closest is when you stop tallying.
When you score points in an end, you give "The Hammer" to your team, which means they get to shoot last.
You have 90 minutes to play. If you run out of time, you can no longer shoot rocks.

I hope that brief explanation helps a little. It's an amazing game to play, and lots of fun. Some of the best curlers in the world come from beer leagues in northern Canada =)

Basically the ice equivalent of lawn bowls.

Whoa people! Come on... the vid IS great, but let's be honest unless you're drinking and participating, curling is lame and the fact that it's an Olympic event kind of sums up why the world is going to shit. Yes, I'm down south, but you don't see me hooting and hollering about 4 man horse shoes, chicken bingo, or some other regional equivalent, with all do respect to our esteemed Canadian friends of course.

I truly apologise to those who find this "sport" entertaining. I have tried - honest - but it seems to me that with a line to the target to follow, a target the size of a small car and some "helpers" with brushes to speed up/slow down the projectile, anybody, even drunk, could become proficient at it in about an hour. A similar game is played on cruise ships for the elderly to partake of "strain free exercise". Seriously, why is this an olympic event? We might aswell have dwarf throwing or spitting the furthest, or how fast can you go down an ice track, flat on your back, on a plank of wood - oops, sorry, think we have that one already.

lawn bowls on ice from what i can tell

Wow, nice shot!

My favorite part of curling is listening to the compulsive behavior of people that don't like it whine about it endlessly.

Thank you so much for letting everyone know why they shouldn't like something, your opinions are so very very important to us all.

residue; if your; "favourite part of curling is listening to the compulsive behaviour of people that don't like it whine about it endlessly." then i guess that shows how entertaining it is to you. Also, I wasn't; "letting everyone know why they shouldn't like something." i was passing an opinion on my incomprehension as to its attraction as a sport. Finally, regarding you sarcasm; "Thank you so much for letting everyone know why they shouldn't like something, your opinions are so very very important to us all". Mine, like yours, is simply a personal opinion and, surely, mine was objective whilst yours was vitriol. If you enjoy curling, great. Personally i enjoy watching sports which require skill and years of commitment.

wtf IS A LAWN BOWL???......oh-yeah,saw that film Blackball..
..fuckin' Brits!!

>> ^A10anis:
Personally i enjoy watching sports which require skill and years of commitment.


Ah, so I see you've never curled before. Throw some rocks then get back to me.

Woo, nice shot. Brier's here in Halifax this year. Not going to any of the games, but I'll be watching as much as I can.

>> ^A10anis:
Personally i enjoy watching sports which require skill and years of commitment.


I'm not one of the many Canadians who is passionate about curling - though I played as a child and have watched my share of tournaments - but if you think that world class curling doesn't require skill and years of commitment then you're obviously on crack. Just look at this image. If you think one can throw a 40 pound stone 150 feet and have it curl perfectly around the stone 2 feet in front of it without years of commitment, then you're an idiot.

Curling isn't the greatest sport ever, it's not always fun to watch, but the people playing it at an international level are true athletes.

>> ^A10anis:
I truly apologise to those who find this "sport" entertaining. I have tried - honest - but it seems to me that with a line to the target to follow, a target the size of a small car and some "helpers" with brushes to speed up/slow down the projectile, anybody, even drunk, could become proficient at it in about an hour. A similar game is played on cruise ships for the elderly to partake of "strain free exercise". Seriously, why is this an olympic event? We might aswell have dwarf throwing or spitting the furthest, or how fast can you go down an ice track, flat on your back, on a plank of wood - oops, sorry, think we have that one already.


Just a couple things. You don't know what you're talking about, and therefore you SHOULD have said such.

Curling is not shuffleboard. This statement alone proves your complete lack of understanding.

I bet, even sober, you would spend the first hour playing mostly flat on your ass. Even skating does not prepare you for what you need to do in curling.

Ever play pool? Imagine making a two bumper bank shot from 40ft away. (adjusted for size difference of cueball vs. rock)

The sweeps are there to stop the rock from curling until the shooter calls it. The sweeps are an extension of him/her. It is teamwork in it's purest form.

...and yes, you are insulting people who love the SPORT by belittling the skill of the players.



ps. about the luge comment "flat on your back, on wood, etc etc" I have never heard of a spitting contest where someone could be killed because of a split-second lapse in judgment.

WTF are lawn bowels

Clearly you've never done a spitting contest in Singapore

forgive me if I misunderstood your comment...but I believe when you score points in an end, your opponent then gets "the Hammer" in the next end. If your opponent already had the hammer, they keep it. BTW loved the Olympic Curling and how much of it was televised this year, both men's and women's.

Whoops, my bad on the typo. It should have said, you give the hammer to your opposing team. You're right Spoon_Gouge.

It's also possible to clear all the stones out of the house, and blank the end. In which case, whom ever had the hammer last, keeps it.

>> ^A10anis:
residue; if your; "favourite part of curling is listening to the compulsive behaviour of people that don't like it whine about it endlessly." then i guess that shows how entertaining it is to you.


Sarcasm.

>> ^A10anis:
Also, I wasn't; "letting everyone know why they shouldn't like something." i was passing an opinion on my incomprehension as to its attraction as a sport.


yea, sure. that's why you compared it to "dwarf throwing," which actually sounds sort of awesome and probably difficult

>> ^A10anis:
Finally, regarding you sarcasm; "Thank you so much for letting everyone know why they shouldn't like something, your opinions are so very very important to us all". Mine, like yours, is simply a personal opinion and, surely, mine was objective whilst yours was vitriol. If you enjoy curling, great. Personally i enjoy watching sports which require skill and years of commitment.


I feel bad piling onto the other comments about that particularly moronic statement, but that's like saying some of the following:
Soccer is easy, it's just kicking a ball into a huge truck-sized net
football is easy, you catch a ball and run away from people
bull-riding is easy, you just sit on a bull for what, 15 seconds?
Diving is easy, you just jump into the water.. gravity does all the damn work!
Rock climbing is basically climbing a ladder made of rock

I don't begrudge people for enjoying the game, but it's patently *ridiculous* that it is played on so high a stage. It's simply not the display of strength or endurance that merits its appearance at the olympics. Should we introduce NASCAR racing to the summer games?

Guys, Guys, chill out. Go watch some curling to lower your blood pressure, alternatively, i have some paint you could come watch dry. Look, i already said "each to their own", I agree, i know nothing of the "intricate skills" necessary to play this olympian "sport". For one thing i never knew they "threw" the "rocks", I must have missed that. I only see men/woman pushing a doughnut shaped lump down the ice using a convenient handle and guided by blind sweeps - I assume they're blind as "payback" says they have to be told when to make the rock curl (YEARS of practice there). I also didn't realise you needed to be an olympic ice skater to slide on your knees. For "residue" to compare curling to the skill necessary to compete in soccer/football/diving/bull riding or climbing, succinctly reflects my point, THEY all require TRUE skill. As for "skeeve" saying; "people playing it at an international level are true athletes", is rather like me saying; " i can open a tin of beans, therefore, i must be a chef". Once again, i'm sorry if i offended anyone, it just seems ridiculous that we make a "sport" out of a pensioners pass time. Anyway, bye bye, i'm off to lie on a plank in the garden to prepare for the next winter olympics luge event...:)

The Michael Bay film score music was a bit ott though. I has half expecting Optimus Prime to come out and take a shot.

>> ^A10anis:
For "residue" to compare curling to the skill necessary to compete in soccer/football/diving/bull riding or climbing, succinctly reflects my point, THEY all require TRUE skill. As for "skeeve" saying; "people playing it at an international level are true athletes", is rather like me saying; " i can open a tin of beans, therefore, i must be a chef". Once again, i'm sorry if i offended anyone, it just seems ridiculous that we make a "sport" out of a pensioners pass time. Anyway, bye bye, i'm off to lie on a plank in the garden to prepare for the next winter olympics luge event...:)


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Curling is obviously a shit sport , It can be proven scentificly by the fact that English people have managed to get a gold in it.

Most the sports in olimpics are absurd , in fact all sporting activities r pretty arbitrary and absurd.


The only thing I take issue with is people taking these things so seriously . I mean its gr8 to be in a sport try your best at it (if u ohnistly enjoy it) maby spend time on it , but ultimately the person should realise the obsirdity of it .

Really people should realise how absurd nearly all human activities are.

HOWEVER ALL IN ALL

some of the dynamics of curling are interesting from a games design perspective . for example unlike lawn bowls the players have influence over the active piece as it slides down the court but not a huge deal of control and it also requires a large amount of effort to get the movement.

the game has manny aspects of design that people generally enjoy ( anticipation , planning and reolisatoin, situational changes , team work , multiple conciquences from a single seed action.

Can we add "reolisatoin" to the tags please?

>> ^residue:
Can we add "reolisatoin" to the tags please?


Define please.

>> ^brycewi19:
>> ^residue:
Can we add "reolisatoin" to the tags please?

Define please.


You'll have to ask Westy about that

Get a job

>> ^westy:
Curling is obviously a shit sport , It can be proven scentificly by the fact that English people have managed to get a gold in it.
Most the sports in olimpics are absurd , in fact all sporting activities r pretty arbitrary and absurd.

The only thing I take issue with is people taking these things so seriously . I mean its gr8 to be in a sport try your best at it (if u ohnistly enjoy it) maby spend time on it , but ultimately the person should realise the obsirdity of it .
Really people should realise how absurd nearly all human activities are.
HOWEVER ALL IN ALL
some of the dynamics of curling are interesting from a games design perspective . for example unlike lawn bowls the players have influence over the active piece as it slides down the court but not a huge deal of control and it also requires a large amount of effort to get the movement.
the game has manny aspects of design that people generally enjoy ( anticipation , planning and reolisatoin, situational changes , team work , multiple conciquences from a single seed action.


"Really people should realise how absurd nearly all human activities are."

1 billion humans are malnourished and cancer's still waiting to be cured. Much of human activity is extremely valuable.

>> ^PHJF:
Should we introduce NASCAR racing to the summer games?


We should, it might actually MAKE money then.

>> ^chilaxe:
>> ^westy:
Curling is obviously a shit sport , It can be proven scentificly by the fact that English people have managed to get a gold in it.
Most the sports in olimpics are absurd , in fact all sporting activities r pretty arbitrary and absurd.
The only thing I take issue with is people taking these things so seriously . I mean its gr8 to be in a sport try your best at it (if u ohnistly enjoy it) maby spend time on it , but ultimately the person should realise the obsirdity of it .
Really people should realise how absurd nearly all human activities are.
HOWEVER ALL IN ALL
some of the dynamics of curling are interesting from a games design perspective . for example unlike lawn bowls the players have influence over the active piece as it slides down the court but not a huge deal of control and it also requires a large amount of effort to get the movement.
the game has manny aspects of design that people generally enjoy ( anticipation , planning and reolisatoin, situational changes , team work , multiple conciquences from a single seed action.

"Really people should realise how absurd nearly all human activities are."
1 billion humans are malnourished and cancer's still waiting to be cured. Much of human activity is extremely valuable.


As you say, countless people are suffering yet here we are arguing about whether curling is boring or not. Seems absurd to me.

Whether curling is boring, is all subjective. It's whatever floats your boat. As for sport, it's one team vs. another team, and who ever gets the most points at the end is the very basic definition of sport.

As for athletes, no they can't do back flips, or have rock solid bodies bodies. But, the best muscle you use in this sport is your brain. It's not just westerners, the Chinese have won the world championships in 2009, and came damn close in the oylmpics.

Arguing over if it's boring or not is a waste of time, because everyones opnion is going to differ.

Either way, this is almost number one, I hope it makes it up there =D

I've never curled before but it looks like a fun game to try. Anyway, here's a quick little rules of curling video...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37PY5qvO_tQ

em>>> ^Bruti79:
The basics of Curling are:
4 persons per team, each person throws two rocks.
You play 10 ends, much like baseball innings
You score points in the house. The team with the closest rock scores one point. If your team has the two closest rocks, you score two, etc. When an opposing teams rock is the next closest is when you stop tallying.
When you score points in an end, you give "The Hammer" to your team, which means they get to shoot last.
You have 90 minutes to play. If you run out of time, you can no longer shoot rocks.
I hope that brief explanation helps a little. It's an amazing game to play, and lots of fun. Some of the best curlers in the world come from beer leagues in northern Canada =)

What's an oat turn?