Curling ice game

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A detailed view of the shoes and pants of the Norwegian team as they compete in curling at PyeongChang One foot slides Curlers wear two different shoes when on the ice. The shoe on the left foot is called the slider and lets that foot slide on the ice.

The shoe on the right foot is called the gripper and gives the athlete more traction on the ice. Granite stones Curling stones are made from a rare type of granite. There are only two places in the world where they can get the granite: the Scottish Island of Ailsa Craig and Wales. Since this granite is rare, they might have to use something else one day. Hurry hard The skip yells this to the sweepers once the stone is thrown.

It lets them know to begin sweeping the ice in front of the stone. Sweeping the ice makes the stone curl less and travel farther. The third plays the fifth and sixth stones and the fourth plays the last two stones. In mixed doubles, both teams play five stones each. One player plays the first and fifth stones while the other player plays stones two, three and four. A sheet of curling ice is over 45 metres long and a maximum of five metres wide.

At each end of the sheet there are two circles that look like target, known as houses. Each house consists of four rings which help define which curling stones are closest to the centre, commonly known as the Button. A team scores one point for each of its own stones located in or touching the house that are closer to the centre than any stone of the opposite team. Only one team can score in an end. This is called a blank end. The teams take it in turns to deliver their stones from the Hack at one end of the sheet to the house at the opposite end.

Players must release the stone before the Hog Line for the stone to be considered in play. Stones which do not pass the hog line at the scoring end of the sheet are removed from play. When an end is complete, the next end is played in the opposite direction.

After all stones have been delivered to the scoring end of the sheet, the players themselves calculate the score. Curling is played over ten ends, however in some formats and competitions this may be reduced to eight ends. Teams can concede their game earlier than the defined number of ends according to the rules of the competition.

The teams with the most points at this stage wins the game. Before a game of curling begins, teams decide who will have what is called the Hammer or Last Stone Advantage. In championship curling this is decided by a draw to the button with two players from each team delivering a stone as close as possible to the centre of the house — one stone is delivered clockwise and the other counter-clockwise — and the distance from the stone to the centre being measured.

If a team has the last stone advantage, it means they can deliver the final stone of an end and have an advantage to score at least one point and potentially win that end. When a team scores, they lose the last stone advantage and the hammer passes to the opposing team for the next end.

Teams generally try to score more than a single point in an end and will, therefore, sometimes blank an end, ensuring that no stones are lying in the house after the last stone is played. This means they get to keep the hammer for the next end.

However, in mixed doubles, a blank end also causes the hammer to be passed to the opposing team.