Our game 2 opponent was a fairly new team to the club as this season is only their second season. We got a 2 point handicap as a result. Lead was back for the game, but I learned that Vice was sick roughly an hour before the game. E-mails to my normal subs and asking people on Twitter did not come up with anything so we played with three people. Lead and Second had good draw weight for most of the game, which made things so much easier for me. We stole several ends and we won the game 7-3. This brings our record to 1-1. For the "competitive" teams, our record remains at 0-1. (I've decided to separately keep track of our record against "competitive" teams to give myself an idea as to what would have happened if the league realignment had actually occurred." The opposing skip has definitely improved from last year. There were several ends where we stole one point, but if it weren't for his shots, we probably could have scored more than one.
In this end, the opposing team has hammer, my team is yellow, and I believe we were up by two. It's the opposing skip's first shot. I was thinking the easiest shot would be to take out the rock in the top of the house and try to get a double. With the curl on the right side, it may have been possible to draw on that side; shot rock was probably unlikely, but saving two was possible. The opposing skip went for the hit and roll with the rock on the left side. He almost got the roll, but was still able to get second shot rock.
I don't remember what I did on my shot. But the opposing skip has a few options. One option is raise on the left side, but you need some curl on the shot to get around the guard. Another possibility is to go down the middle. While that shot would have been interesting (who doesn't want to see lots of rocks crashing into each other?), it's possible that their own rock would have been taken out and that would be much worse; at best they would only be scoring one. I guess it might have been possible to go for a double raise or something like that off the guard, but that's still just as dangerous. He went for the draw and missed. To me though, getting the hit and roll on his first shot was still a very good outcome.
In this end, the opposing team has hammer, my team is yellow, and I believe we were up by two. It's the opposing skip's first shot. I was thinking the easiest shot would be to take out the rock in the top of the house and try to get a double. With the curl on the right side, it may have been possible to draw on that side; shot rock was probably unlikely, but saving two was possible. The opposing skip went for the hit and roll with the rock on the left side. He almost got the roll, but was still able to get second shot rock.
I don't remember what I did on my shot. But the opposing skip has a few options. One option is raise on the left side, but you need some curl on the shot to get around the guard. Another possibility is to go down the middle. While that shot would have been interesting (who doesn't want to see lots of rocks crashing into each other?), it's possible that their own rock would have been taken out and that would be much worse; at best they would only be scoring one. I guess it might have been possible to go for a double raise or something like that off the guard, but that's still just as dangerous. He went for the draw and missed. To me though, getting the hit and roll on his first shot was still a very good outcome.
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