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Historical Rules of Curling

WCF

WCF AGA/Congress

Quick summary

To do: color-code clarifications/addendums vs actual rule changes.

2014: Unauthorized deliberate team shuffle is instant forfeit. Second alternate is instant forfeit. Mandatory broomholder (including mixed doubles) must have one foot/wheel on ice, or stone is 'burned'. Player damaging the ice is ejected after 2 warnings. Leaving items unattended is prohibited. Except simple stopwatches, electronic devices are forbidden. Penalty for wearing gloves with sensor handles (and other unspecified delivery violations): 'burn' the stone. Mixed curling added. Mixed doubles curling allows team official as 4th wheel. No more rethrow in mixed doubles delivery violation. PED allowed via TEU. Prohibited substance penalty is DQ and possible suspension. E-smoking counts as smoking. Explicitly rule instant forfeit if a team can't start with 4 players. Improper uniform is denied access. Thinking time introduced. LSD/DSC stuff.

Personal observation: with most delivery violations now resulting in a 'burned' stone, it's notable that throwing opposition's stone is still forgivable, remedied by replacement. I suppose it's because there is absolutely no advantage in committing this infraction. It's weird, though, that mandatory broomholder is now explicitly required to have at least one foot/wheel on the ice (why???).

2015: Max LSD is now 199.6 cm instead of 185.4 cm. Mixed doubles: officials overrule players on which of the 6 guard position to use based on ice condition; house stone moved to back 4; power play; no more mandatory broomholder. Coaching bench banned from eavesdropping broadcast. Add more thinking time for wheelchair. Clarifies who can attend team meeting at half time break. Wrong clock running is remedied by adding double the difference. LSD stuff.

2016: Snow plough sweeping allowed. Allow double touch delivery. Bumper bouncer is reset by non-offending team. Broom rehaul post broomgate + glossary entries. Must still play required minimum number of ends, even if "arithmetically" (no longer "mathematically") eliminated. When non-offending team is given hammer because of delay of start of game by offending team, it can now decline it. R15.j: make sure mixed doubles 1&5 thrower can not throw more than 2 stones in case of delivery violations. Allow 3-person starting team with permission. No clock running error is remedied not by subtraction, but by addition for the opposition instead. Travel time is given to all times even when there's no travel.

2017: A player that left can re-enter a game in progress only between ends. Rule on wrong team delivering first stone of an end (R5(l)). R11(a) on arithmetically eliminated: can finish current end (unless it's last end), may not start new end. Extra 30s between ends in mixed doubles when players are responsible for placing positioned stones. LSD assignment for 3-person/5-person teams. No more tiebreaker games. 6 teams playoff format for Men's, Women's, Wheelchair. Shorts are banned.

2018: 5-rock. Anyone can observe measurement (R11(d)). Delivery stick & wheelchair rules. Mixed doubles blanked end due to measurement retains choice of hammer. Minimum age 16 year old for team officials. Major competition format changes.

Curling Canada

FAQ

Could you please explain the 3 rock rule?

Observations

FGZ

Taking out your own guard was a FGZ violation in 3 rock rule.
Non-offending team had the option to ignore FGZ violation in 3 rock rule, and in 4 rock rule up until 2004.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20040330140608/http://www.curling.ca:80/learn_and_play/rules_of_the_game/FGZ_Rule_Interpretation.pdf
"1993: Russ Howard wins the Ontario, Canadian, and world championships using three different rules [3, 0, 4]" (Curling Etcetera)

Time Clock

Doug Maxwell, chess clocks, 1986 TSN Skins Game, Playing Time

https://www.curling.ca/about-curling/the-history-of-curling/
https://www.curling.ca/blog/2011/09/22/the-last-end-the-history-of-playing-time/
Curling Etcetera (Time to Curl)

Grand Slam experimenting with Thinking Time?

2014 WCF Thinking Time (when was CCA?)

Reliable?

https://soudogcurling.tripod.com/

Camille Villeneuve

Moncton 100

First event to LSD for LSFE (Curling Etcetera)
https://curlmoncton.ca/about/history-of-curl-moncton/ "In 1990, the Moncton 100 International Cashspiel, the largest ever cash spiel, was held in Moncton."
https://www.curling.ca/about-curling/the-history-of-curling/
https://thegrandslamofcurling.com/glenn-howard-5-rock-rule-natural-progression-for-curling/
https://www.si.com/curling/news/oh-calcutta "The Moncton 100 (1990) is considered the richest bonspiel in history, but that might not be the case."

Burned Rocks

WCF 2002

If a running stone is touched by any of the playing team or by his equipment, the touched stone shall be removed from play immediately by that team. However, if in the opinion of the opposing skip, removal of the stone would be beneficial to the offending team, then he may place the stone as nearly as possible to the position where he considers it would have come to rest had it not been touched. He may also reposition any stone or stones that would have been displaced had the running stone not been touched and been allowed to continue.

Curling Canada 2002

A delivered stone or stone set in motion shall not be touched by any player, equipment or personal belongings of the team to which it belongs.

Penalty: All stones shall be allowed to come to rest before any action is taken. [...T]he non-offending team may then remove the touched stone from play and replace all affected stones as close as possible to their original positions unless they select either of these alternative options:

allowing the play to stand; or
placing the touched stone and all stones it would have affected where they would have come to rest had the violation not occurred.

Alcohol/drinking culture

Brier Morning Classes

Nate Vandermeer (March 2, 2020). "Morning Class at the Brier is a 72-year tradition". CTV News. It's a tradition that dates back to the Second World War where Canadian officer Colin Campbell gave early morning gin to his troops digging tunnels or munitions caves to boost morale.
Attending morning class part of the fun at Brier. Ottawa Citizen.
Joe Pavia (March 9, 2016). "Morning class part of the fun at Brier". Ottawa Sun. [Campbell] introduced morning classes at the Calgary Brier in 1948.

Team World alcohol ban at 2012 Continental Cup of Curling

"Team World takes serious approach to Continental Cup". Calgary Herald. January 11, 2012. [Team World] are taking this event seriously, and [it] has begun to evolve from being purely a curiosity to being a legitimate, and meaningful, competition.
George Karrys (January 12, 2012). "Curling booze ban makes waves". The Curling News.
Mike Beamish (January 12, 2012). "Team World has sober outlook". The Vancouver Sun. booze is such an integral part of the game's culture from its Scottish roots alternate link
"Continental cup curling World team opts for booze ban". Winnipeg Free Press. January 12, 2012. Curlers have long been known to share a pint of beer or other alcoholic beverages after matches in the sport which is considered highly sociable.
"Ulsrud clinches Continental Cup for Team World". CBC. The Canadian Press. January 16, 2012. We knew this alcohol question would be a talk of the town, and it was [...] But it really helped us, I would say, and now we'll have a great time."

Alcohol ban in Sochi 2014

Nick Miller (February 15, 2014). "Sochi Winter Olympics: Alcohol ban against 'the spirit of curling'". The Sydney Morning Herald. curling and beer, these things tend to go hand in hand
Andy Bull (November 20, 2018). "Beers on ice: Canadian curlers show why sport and alcohol don't mix well". The Guardian. curling journalists complained to the organisers because the only booze on sale at the Olympic rink was alcohol‑free beer
Nora Princiotti (February 13, 2018). "Canada's Olympic curlers brought their own beer". Boston Globe. It's the only Olympic sport designed to be played while drinking a beer
Brian Costa (February 11, 2014). "Russia's Ban on Alcohol in Arenas Leaves Drinkers Flat". Wall Street Journal. Who wants to watch curling sober? No one. I'll tell you that right now.

Alcohol ban in juniors

United States Curling Association. "2019-20 USCA Rules of Curling & Competition" (PDF). p. 31: Older players on a team with younger players who cannot drink alcohol may not encourage drinking by the underage members of their team
Bill Graveland (April 11, 2009). "Juniors slapped with booze ban: WCF adopts zero tolerance policy on rowdies". The Eye Opener. Curling Canada. p. 11: the [CCA] found that allowing any drinking at the junior events proved disastrous and the WCF move is long overdue.

"Local/Regional Academy Athlete Agreement 2020-21" (PDF). Scottish Curling. In accordance with the players code of conduct no alcohol should be consumed by funded athletes during training and competition. The WCF have an alcohol ban at the World Junior Championships.

2018 Red Deer Curling Classic incident

Aimee Lewis (November 20, 2018). "'They were breaking brooms' – Curling team kicked out of tournament for drunkenness". CNN. We were disrespectful and the committee was right to disqualify us from further play which we did not argue.
Andy Bull (November 20, 2018). "Beers on ice: Canadian curlers show why sport and alcohol don't mix well". The Guardian.
Gregory Strong (November 19, 2018). "Excessive drinking before game leads to team's ejection from World Curling Tour event in Alberta". Global News. The Canadian Press.
Susan Zielinski (November 20, 2018). "Curling and drinking go 'hand in hand,' says Red Deer rink manager". Red Deer Advocate. in the old days, there used to be cigar smoking and drinks on the ice, but that doesn't happen anymore.
The StarPhoenix & Regina Leader-Post editorial boards (November 21, 2018). "Editorial: Drunk curlers show need for culture shift". All over Canada, curling rinks almost always contain a bar.

Misc

Joe Pavia (November 17, 2015). "Ferbey the last of the beer-drinking curlers". Ottawa Sun. Teams were friends and went out and had a drink together. That's not happening no more.
Photos and videos of old school curlers with beer on ice?
"Italian soda, anyone?" (PDF). Curling Canada. drinking and driving is no longer tolerated in our country
"Curling and drinking at Winnipeg's MCA Bonspiel". CBC Digital Archives. After the 2003 Manitoba Bonspiel bar managers noted a decline in drinking among players. Competitors are taking the game more seriously and even casual participants are curtailing their consumption.
Bob Weeks (December 21, 2009). "Curler sends his demons packing on road to 2010". The Globe and Mail. Aside from the booze, the other constant in his life had been curling. But the sport has been intertwined with alcohol seemingly forever, the post-match drink a ritual. Benton had to ask himself if he truly loved the sport or just what came with it.

#NotASportsBar

Etiquette/rules

Milwaukee Curling Club. "Post-game Etiquette / Tradition". Behind each sheet in the lounge is a table. It is customary to sit down and chat and share a drink with your team members and opponents after a game.
Coldwater Curling Club. "Rules & Etiquette" (PDF). Winning teams buy drinks for opposition & then opponents reciprocate
Seattle Curling Club. "Game Etiquette Basics". Socializing is a big part of the curling culture, and the curling tradition has the winning team buying drinks for the losing team, and that everyone socializes over a drink after the game.
"The Rules of 'Beer League' Curling". If you do not get the rock past the hog line, you have to buy the first round of drinks.
Jean Mills (October 6, 2010). "Around the house: curling etiquette". Curling Canada. Winners buy the losers a drink, and the losers return the favour in round two. That is how the game is played, and we curlers wouldn't have it any other way.

WikiData

User:CurlingClips/List of left-handed curlers

Curlers who don't have WCF id (as search)

https://results.worldcurling.org/Person?searchname=Thoresen (last name or first name only)

Wikipedia:Finding_a_Wikidata_ID

Get entity as JSON: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q42.json

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageprops&titles=Rachel%20Homan%7CJoanne%20Courtney&format=json

format=xml => https://gist.github.com/VladimirAlexiev/8201d614a819cb7d4023ce9aa315af65

Q7279274

participants of 2018 Olympics men's (average team age)

Multigenerational curling families

TODOs

lefty & righty

has multiple WCF IDs

has WCF ID but does not have 'playing hand' property (batch)

has WCF ID but does not have birth date

has WCF ID, has handedness, but no qualifier/reference

Get UUID: https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetclaims&entity=Q1375907&property=P741&format=json

All WWCCs probably should follow example of 2018 Olympics instead

Note: WCF's tournament start/end dates are "incorrect", e.g. 2018 Olympics tournaments spans from event opening to closing dates, even though mixed doubles started before opening date, etc.

Medal table (cf. World Wheelchair Curling Championship#All-time medal table)

Legendary undefeated runs

Performance chart (click on Country names in legend to toggle line)

Trivia

Corn broom/tuck slide at Olympics:

Curlers who have represented multiple countries at WCF:

Claudio Pescia
Lars Vågberg
Alan MacDougall https://results.worldcurling.org/Person/Details/2505
James Dryburgh

Rules:

Russ Howard played with 3 set of FGZ rules in 1993: 3-rock at FGZ, 0-rock at Brier, 4-rock at World Men's.

Officiating

2011 Chief Umpire Reference Manual