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gret posted:Oh hey, I've been enjoying your Building a life in the country thread. Hey thank you. Stay tuned, got a big arc coming up for season seven.
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Wait canada only gets a loving beanie baby?
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Koirhor posted:Wait canada only gets a loving beanie baby? They do the teddy bear at the arena for the benefit of the people at the event and then there’s the full medal ceremony later at a central location.
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Reminder: https://twitter.com/AndrewMcNair85/status/436097763256709120
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Feb 14, 2018 00:36
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time for the john shuster experience my body is ready
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Feb 14, 2018 01:02
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I unironically want Shuster to go winless.
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Feb 14, 2018 01:07
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These games are so low scoring compared to the others
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Feb 14, 2018 01:31
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Tolly Totes posted:These games are so low scoring compared to the others Yeah after watching mixed doubles, I forgot how common blank ends could be in regular curling. Canada/Italy still scoreless in the third.
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Feb 14, 2018 01:33
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The third ended scoreless but the fourth is off to a much more interesting start, four rocks in the house right now
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Feb 14, 2018 01:45
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I believe in their ability to clear out all the rocks and get another scoreless end.
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Feb 14, 2018 01:48
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Can't help but feel like there's an issue in game design when teams are literally trying to avoid scoring More seriously, is keeping the hammer really that much better than scoring one point?
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Tolly Totes posted:Can't help but feel like there's an issue in game design when teams are literally trying to avoid scoring The teams are still trying to get used to the ice so the first game is typically more conservative. And more seriously, yes. USA/Korea has gone 2-2-3-1 and is a good game. Shuster hasn’t hosed everything up yet, which is a nice change.
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Feb 14, 2018 02:09
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Every time Shuster talks strat he's always "I can put it there" "I can tap that" "Easy shot, I'll nail that" Then he cant. He's also bad at curling.
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Feb 14, 2018 02:17
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at least it's nice to know curling andy reid is still here
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Feb 14, 2018 02:20
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He currently has a draw for 3 and an insurmountable lead And he managed to not gently caress it up Hail Shuster
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Feb 14, 2018 02:20
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Korean anchor is outshustering Shuster.
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Feb 14, 2018 02:22
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Tolly Totes posted:Can't help but feel like there's an issue in game design when teams are literally trying to avoid scoring There's two things at play here. The first, as Aggro mentioned, is it's the first game of the tournament and teams are going to be playing defensively trying to figure out the ice and adjust to playing in a place for the first time. The second is that Italy is just good enough to challenge for the playoffs but not really good enough to play head to head against Canada. What they're probably trying to do (I just got home from work and I'm catching up on the game!) is play as open and defensively as possible hoping to goad Canada into a mistake. This probably isn't something you'll see from either team in the rest of the tournament although you might see Italy try it against Sweden if it's successful here. Yes, hammer is that important. At least in a game like this. One thing you might see is that teams want hammer in the last end, so they might gladly give up one in the ninth end. Most teams would rather be down with hammer than up without hammer (by 1 or 2 at least, 3 or more whatever) in the last end. Also, just watch women's curling. It's better about that. Very disappointed that the Italian third trimmed his beard. He had some impressive hipster facial hair. Team USA's white pants are an absolute travesty. I would go so far as to call them the anti Norway.
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I think Marc Kennedy is my favorite curler to watch.
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Bankok posted:Korean anchor is outshustering Shuster. i noticed that right at the start
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"Mistake by Shuster" DRINK
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Tolly Totes posted:Can't help but feel like there's an issue in game design when teams are literally trying to avoid scoring Might I introduce you to Kevin Martin? Canada adopted the free guard zone because of his ability to clear the house (and then went the to the international rule a efw years later so players would be accustomed to it for Worlds). e. my wife was at an event when someone, after Martin peeled rock after rock after rock, yelled "booring!", to which he responded "winning!"
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Bilirubin posted:Might I introduce you to Kevin Martin? Canada adopted the free guard zone because of his ability to clear the house (and then went the to the international rule a efw years later so players would be accustomed to it for Worlds). Kevin Martin sounds like the Martin Brodeur of curling.
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Lol this end should have been purely academic and an easy blank for the US
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Feb 14, 2018 03:38
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That's the closest I've ever seen a stone to the hogline
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Switzerland and Great Britain going to an extra end. .
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Great double to end it for Canada!
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So why was the double considered a much higher percentage shot than drawing for one?
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gret posted:So why was the double considered a much higher percentage shot than drawing for one? The consequences of missing the double was Italy potentially scoring 1 and Canada keeping the hammer for 11. If he missed the draw Italy could have stolen 2 and won, and the ice was getting a little squirrelly speed wise, making that shot a lot harder
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^This guy is right. In the SWI-GBR game extra end, Switzerland didn't even hit the house with their last draw and gave GBR the whole house to draw to for the win. Draws can be deceptively hard before you know the ice.
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Women's tourney starts in 5 minutes. No Homan today though.
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Totally not Russia's second is super adorable  
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This OAR team is horrendous. How do you not do a hit and roll for 2? Instead you just needed a draw inside the 12 foot and came up short.
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USA is geting smoked right now, being behind 4-0 after having the hammer twice is depressing af
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