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SCOTLAND!!!
First: Heia, Norge! Norway won the 3-4 match vs. China this afternoon in fine form; the Chinese team lost their mojo and the Norwegians never really lost theirs -- particularly the second, who was groovin' out to the music they were playing between ends. Note: they are all quite a lot shorter than (a) they look and (b) I remember.
And then: Scotland 7 6 Canada in the 1-2 page playoff!!! Down 6-2 and battled back to win with a deuce and three steals! Go on, boys!
(I may have had two or three frozen margaritas during the game and thus be a little buzzy in addition to flying high. For the record, in the first- or second-end break during the 3-4 match, the PA was playing "Friday I'm In Love" by The Cure, because at this event playing on Friday is the equivalent of playing on Sunday at a bonspiel; and after the 1-2 match, it was playing "Walking on Sunshine", which I am, and the Scots and their families are even more. Woo!)
And then: Scotland 7 6 Canada in the 1-2 page playoff!!! Down 6-2 and battled back to win with a deuce and three steals! Go on, boys!
me: So can we sit with you all again on Sunday?WOO-HOO!
Scottish gentleman sitting next to me: Oh, please do!
(I may have had two or three frozen margaritas during the game and thus be a little buzzy in addition to flying high. For the record, in the first- or second-end break during the 3-4 match, the PA was playing "Friday I'm In Love" by The Cure, because at this event playing on Friday is the equivalent of playing on Sunday at a bonspiel; and after the 1-2 match, it was playing "Walking on Sunshine", which I am, and the Scots and their families are even more. Woo!)
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Seriously. Canada had the hammer, and blanked the first end, but took three in the second. Scotland took two in the third. Canada ... blanked the fourth and took three in the fifth, or else took three in the fourth and Scotland blanked the fifth, it doesn't matter, point is it was 6-2 at halftime. Scotland took two in the sixth, stole one in the seventh on a big miss by Kevin Martin (actually they were counting two and almost three, and his miss knocked one of his in to cut them down to just one); Canada blanked the eighth, and Scotland stole one in the ninth on another big miss to tie it up, when they would have preferred to give Canada one and have the hammer coming home. They'd rather have played for two in the tenth and figured on an extra end than banked on stealing again. But they did! Martin's final draw hung out wide and rolled a little too far back, and my boys are in the final!
Now if
(edited to finish the comment, because halfway into the second graf the computer freaked out and i thought i'd lost the whole thing.)
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Yay Scotland, though. I'm totally cheering for them in the finals. They play the winner of the Norway-Canada match? So they could meet up with Canada for the third time? I don't really care which one Scotland beats, as long as they win.
...OK, I'll cheer for Norway if you want. Heia, Norge!
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Not a thing. They have been very gentlemanly all week, two v. classy examples of which are Martin congratulating Kapp of Germany on an excellent high-pressure draw for one (when Martin was looking at stealing four), and their fifth man shaking everyone's hands when he came in late in one game I can't remember when. Good guys. Just, they're not my boys Team Scotland, and they're not my secondary boys (and
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