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I've already forgotten all the minutiae of our first three games, except that we won the first two handily and were out in a good lead in the third but very nearly got ourselves in extremely hot water late in the game - ultimately we were up four coming home with hammer (= last rock, a considerable advantage), so we threw through, and then had some trouble peeling guards and things, so we still needed skip J to throw at least his first stone.
In the final, we lost the toss and played a terrible first end, saved only by skip J's second shot (well called by self and well swept by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
datlowen and R), and we were lucky to give up only the two points that the opponent, having the hammer, had the right to expect. We didn't play great in the second end, either, but we took our two points, so we were tied with six ends left to play.
In the third end, we just about figured out the wiggy ice that had been messing us up in the beginning of the game. The end was pretty clean, and the opponent chose to blank it rather than take one point. Tied with five ends left.
In the fourth, we stole two. (We'd been lying three, I think, and with the hammer he tried to Do Things but ended up losing his shooter - so he cut us down, good for him, but didn't actually score, obviosuly.) Up two with four ends left.
In the fifth, he took two. I don't remember an awful lot about that end. Presumably he made a very nice shot for the deuce he got. Tied with three ends left.
In the sixth, the end was very clean but we chose to take one rather than blank, in order to keep the hammer in even-numbered ends. J made a perfect draw to the button. Up one with two ends left.
We played a fantastic seventh end with the goal of forcing the other guy to take a single point. He was left with a difficult shot to hit a rock of ours in the back of the house (which he could hardly see on account of a guard, which may have been his own) and try to blank, but he missed, so we stole one. Up two with one end left.
So normally, when you have the hammer, it is reasonable to expect that you should get two points. This means that if you do not have the hammer, holding the other guy to one point is a success, and actually getting one or more points is even better. Conversely, if you have the hammer, you have to get more than two points before anybody will be really impressed. ... Our opponent needed two points to tie, so we had to play Better Than Him to keep that from happening if we wanted to win in the eighth and not go into what the idiot NBC Olympics announcer would have called "sudden-death overtime".
And we did! We had some difficulty in the middle of the end, but ultimately left the other guy with an impossible split against three of our rocks (one biting in the top twelve on the left, one about half in the back twelve on the right, and one, crucially, in the back eight, for the benefit of anyone who knows the game well enough to care) for the tie, so he conceded and we went in and had some drinks and there is a trophy that will have our names on it and everything. Hurrah!
In the final, we lost the toss and played a terrible first end, saved only by skip J's second shot (well called by self and well swept by
datlowen and R), and we were lucky to give up only the two points that the opponent, having the hammer, had the right to expect. We didn't play great in the second end, either, but we took our two points, so we were tied with six ends left to play.In the third end, we just about figured out the wiggy ice that had been messing us up in the beginning of the game. The end was pretty clean, and the opponent chose to blank it rather than take one point. Tied with five ends left.
In the fourth, we stole two. (We'd been lying three, I think, and with the hammer he tried to Do Things but ended up losing his shooter - so he cut us down, good for him, but didn't actually score, obviosuly.) Up two with four ends left.
In the fifth, he took two. I don't remember an awful lot about that end. Presumably he made a very nice shot for the deuce he got. Tied with three ends left.
In the sixth, the end was very clean but we chose to take one rather than blank, in order to keep the hammer in even-numbered ends. J made a perfect draw to the button. Up one with two ends left.
We played a fantastic seventh end with the goal of forcing the other guy to take a single point. He was left with a difficult shot to hit a rock of ours in the back of the house (which he could hardly see on account of a guard, which may have been his own) and try to blank, but he missed, so we stole one. Up two with one end left.
So normally, when you have the hammer, it is reasonable to expect that you should get two points. This means that if you do not have the hammer, holding the other guy to one point is a success, and actually getting one or more points is even better. Conversely, if you have the hammer, you have to get more than two points before anybody will be really impressed. ... Our opponent needed two points to tie, so we had to play Better Than Him to keep that from happening if we wanted to win in the eighth and not go into what the idiot NBC Olympics announcer would have called "sudden-death overtime".
And we did! We had some difficulty in the middle of the end, but ultimately left the other guy with an impossible split against three of our rocks (one biting in the top twelve on the left, one about half in the back twelve on the right, and one, crucially, in the back eight, for the benefit of anyone who knows the game well enough to care) for the tie, so he conceded and we went in and had some drinks and there is a trophy that will have our names on it and everything. Hurrah!