Watching mainly uk teams as in uk. Did try to use vpn to Canada to watch it all. But I miss the Scottish commentary :-).
Not sure I am eve qualified as a watcher. But I heard in the commentary about the inclination people to watch mixed double and not the long game. At least it is not 5 day long like ashes.
You asked and let me try to second guess what is going on in the curling reform based on the mixed double success.
a) there are too many mistakes and too many times of simple I knock you out and you knock me out
You can see that in say yesterday Sweden vs Canada women say the Sweden 2nd player basically miss all her 2 play in the last round.
A bit like football or soccer which you have role. Not everyone is good at everything. More of the skip played say out of 8 each has to play once but for 4 of them they can be decided by the team.
2) same format as mixed double. Have power play abd other than that have fixed stones. To be honest I am not sure why double is so aggressive (as the uk 2nd play has demonstrated even long game one can play aggressively but seems not the atmosphere). But may be come down to this. Also instead of 10 down to 8 round.
3) Italy is good. So far so good. For double, you can sense it is well above the others. That is something. You need to have that kind. You need stars. Not sure how to fix this though
4) not sure I have much to say about time. They already changed the rule once (instead of total time now is in between play time). USA partially lost to uk due to time management ?
More time out. Not that help the Australian double — the horror your couch actually quit you the last minute and join Canada team to fight you instead. But 1 more time out is fine. They are not like other sport time out where it is just a rest. Even us the watcher know why the call. So complicated.
Btw I am a go player not a chess player. It is more like go than chess. You cannot move your stone and you mistake like go - put stone on the wrong places and kill/attack the wrong stones. I even suspect you need commentary more here. But not if the kind rugby and cricket. It is rule you do not know there which require commentary. Here what can be done is hard to think of. You can see the Canadian skip has out think the commentator in real time. That is the fun part.
I agree they are all prof. And I always agreed to Olympic Creed. But sometimes I wonder what happened why the uk skip cannot play the last stone well.
Anyway feel ashamed to watch it. But not easy to watch say world companion etc and hence this is a 4 year fix. Guess the medalist would like one say we will talk about human rights when we are back home.
Not sure I am eve qualified as a watcher. But I heard in the commentary about the inclination people to watch mixed double and not the long game. At least it is not 5 day long like ashes.
You asked and let me try to second guess what is going on in the curling reform based on the mixed double success.
a) there are too many mistakes and too many times of simple I knock you out and you knock me out
You can see that in say yesterday Sweden vs Canada women say the Sweden 2nd player basically miss all her 2 play in the last round.
A bit like football or soccer which you have role. Not everyone is good at everything. More of the skip played say out of 8 each has to play once but for 4 of them they can be decided by the team.
2) same format as mixed double. Have power play abd other than that have fixed stones. To be honest I am not sure why double is so aggressive (as the uk 2nd play has demonstrated even long game one can play aggressively but seems not the atmosphere). But may be come down to this. Also instead of 10 down to 8 round.
3) Italy is good. So far so good. For double, you can sense it is well above the others. That is something. You need to have that kind. You need stars. Not sure how to fix this though
4) not sure I have much to say about time. They already changed the rule once (instead of total time now is in between play time). USA partially lost to uk due to time management ?
More time out. Not that help the Australian double — the horror your couch actually quit you the last minute and join Canada team to fight you instead. But 1 more time out is fine. They are not like other sport time out where it is just a rest. Even us the watcher know why the call. So complicated.
Btw I am a go player not a chess player. It is more like go than chess. You cannot move your stone and you mistake like go - put stone on the wrong places and kill/attack the wrong stones. I even suspect you need commentary more here. But not if the kind rugby and cricket. It is rule you do not know there which require commentary. Here what can be done is hard to think of. You can see the Canadian skip has out think the commentator in real time. That is the fun part.
I agree they are all prof. And I always agreed to Olympic Creed. But sometimes I wonder what happened why the uk skip cannot play the last stone well.
Anyway feel ashamed to watch it. But not easy to watch say world companion etc and hence this is a 4 year fix. Guess the medalist would like one say we will talk about human rights when we are back home.
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