Finally, a win; the final score was 8-4. We haven't had a win since Game 11 and that was roughly six weeks ago. This brings our record to 8-6 with 2 incomplete games and I'm not sure yet if/when we'll get around to those incompletes.
But before we get to my own game, I actually subbed in a game right before. I warned my skip that I had a game in two hours so if they went long I might not make it. Of course, as it turns out, in the last end, the opposing team scored three to tie up the game (my skip had some bad misses). So we had to go to an extra end, but I really just had enough time to throw my own rock so I didn't sweep any rocks in that last end. Fortunately, they were able to pull out the win.
I want to spotlight one scenario from this game. My team has hammer and is red. If I recall, we were up by two or three. It's the first shot for my team's third.
Now, I tend to play a bit more of an offense game, but I thought the most logical shot was to take out one or more of the guards. Really, I figured you would just throw the rock down the middle (shown in red) and you couldn't help but hit something. My thinking is my team is up and this end is ripe for a steal if the other team can make a nice raise. Instead, my skip called the hit and roll off the rock in the house (shown in black). For both of the third's rocks, we went for that shot and missed it on both sides. Fortunately, the other team basically missed all of their shots (too bad after setting up a nice end). Then, with his last shot, my skip was able to draw in a rock (shown in green) to score one, though I think that shot was more difficult than it needed to be.
On to my game. I had hoped to have my whole team together for the first time in a little while, but alas, Lead was sick. He had tried to call me, but I was subbing. Oh well. We just played with the three of us. We started out pretty poorly. In the first end, the opposing team was sitting four, but because we had hammer, I was able to cut that down to them just stealing one. Fortunately, we settled down after that.
I can't really remember any major strategy decisions, but here's a shot I should've made. I guess like most other skips (I assume), I remember shots I missed.
In this situation, my team is up two (I think), we're yellow, we have hammer, and it's my last shot.
But before we get to my own game, I actually subbed in a game right before. I warned my skip that I had a game in two hours so if they went long I might not make it. Of course, as it turns out, in the last end, the opposing team scored three to tie up the game (my skip had some bad misses). So we had to go to an extra end, but I really just had enough time to throw my own rock so I didn't sweep any rocks in that last end. Fortunately, they were able to pull out the win.
I want to spotlight one scenario from this game. My team has hammer and is red. If I recall, we were up by two or three. It's the first shot for my team's third.
Now, I tend to play a bit more of an offense game, but I thought the most logical shot was to take out one or more of the guards. Really, I figured you would just throw the rock down the middle (shown in red) and you couldn't help but hit something. My thinking is my team is up and this end is ripe for a steal if the other team can make a nice raise. Instead, my skip called the hit and roll off the rock in the house (shown in black). For both of the third's rocks, we went for that shot and missed it on both sides. Fortunately, the other team basically missed all of their shots (too bad after setting up a nice end). Then, with his last shot, my skip was able to draw in a rock (shown in green) to score one, though I think that shot was more difficult than it needed to be.
On to my game. I had hoped to have my whole team together for the first time in a little while, but alas, Lead was sick. He had tried to call me, but I was subbing. Oh well. We just played with the three of us. We started out pretty poorly. In the first end, the opposing team was sitting four, but because we had hammer, I was able to cut that down to them just stealing one. Fortunately, we settled down after that.
I can't really remember any major strategy decisions, but here's a shot I should've made. I guess like most other skips (I assume), I remember shots I missed.
In this situation, my team is up two (I think), we're yellow, we have hammer, and it's my last shot.
The obvious goal is to take out the red stone and then we'd (hopefully) score four. How to call it? Well, we knew rocks tended to curl a little more to the outside on that side. So I had Vice hold the broom on the edge of the four foot (as opposed to right next to the red rock) and then I threw takeout weight (the black arrow). To our surprise, the rock curled all the way over to our own stone (the green arrow) so we only scored two. Of course, in retrospect, I now wonder if I should've thrown an in turn (the red arrow) and thrown back line weight and used the red rock as a back stop. I'm now thinking there would've been a greater chance to score three. But I guess it didn't matter as we won by four.
Anyway, it was a good two games and it was good to get back on track.
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