Niklas Edin vs. John Epping - Draw 5 - IG Wealth Management Western Showdown

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Mark Noe joins me on this morning's broadcast. Hello, good morning, we have the qualifier here, the first of the qualifiers to John Epping against the Nicholas Adeen team minus Nicholas Adeen. Mark, did you get a chance to watch any of the games yesterday? I couldn't see Swatch. In many of the games I was able to see some of the highlights. It looks like Erickson made a very good double at the end. of the game and yeah, just being able to pick that up clean was pretty impressive. He hit three or four fantastic doubles in that game yesterday and there were already a lot of highlights during the first day, which Nicholasadine and I were seeing a little bit. apparently he injured his knee last weekend and at the time they were hoping he would be able to return for this weekend it didn't work out that way, he still prefers it a little bit so they've been playing shorthand for their first two games.

It doesn't seem to have hurt them, they have the hammer here after the butt tie before the game and they throw the red stones here in the first ending, only the three guards in play at the moment and Oscar Erickson would like to see. a few less guards near the center line so I'm looking to make a play on them mm-hmm Christopher sungren normally the team leader asked to be asked to throw Three Stones here this week sweeping second cut third in this lineup Rasmus Rana Oscar Erickson jumping the team throws the last two stones well, of course, Nicholas Adeen out of the lineup at this time does the double peel, the shooter comes out alone leaving the corner guard for now and John Epping will ask Patrick Jansen to stand realize this is a new lineup for John Epping this year too uh yeah I was going to ask you about this because uh I wasn't familiar with how many new faces we have in the ring well I'm not sure how to answer that because Scott Chadwick he's the leader and I don't think he's played with John before, now that Patrick Jansen is new to the team, so to speak, this year, but I do think so and I'd have to go back and look at it myself. he and John have played together before Matthew cam played third, played with John for a number of years, now played a couple of different positions and of course John Epping jump in and if you want to talk about making shots highlights, he has the ability for that.

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this morning, yes I've always been a big fan of John Epping's great late skills. He is never afraid to run backwards and always enjoys watching his games. Hmm, the other thing he was thinking about me was that he was nice. It is very interesting the way the

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was done here. A lot of times you see these teams when they get to the A qualifiers and don't get me wrong, no one is going to pass up a place in the eight, but you pass the A. win a qualifier on Saturday and then you sit and wait to play until On Monday in the morning.

The playoffs here in Swift Current this year will actually start on Sunday night, which I think might be a slight advantage for some of these passing teams. unlike a normal event where they have a whole day where they don't play any games, yes they are going to sit for a while but they will still play tomorrow, yes I just have had the chance to play yet, some senior tournaments duration and I never liked having a day off. It just gives you enough time to get into trouble. It's probably not a problem for these pro teams, but you know, for me and some of the Hooligans I hang out with, yeah, we find problems when we have time.

I am familiar with that experience. The other thing that I think causes some problems for some of these teams is that, of course, they condition. these rocks before the event starts and you see this huge amount of curl as the event starts and the rocks will calm down a little bit as they go through use, not that they don't curl but they will change a little bit for what equipment you you sit for a full 24 hours while the ice changes, sometimes you don't get the feel of the ice as much as the teams that have continued to play the whole time while it changed, yeah, and while we were talking about a really good shot from uh Matt cam there because to get to that shot that was uh too buried, have you seen this, uh, so much curl, uh, everything, uh, in the previous

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s, we have yeah, it certainly was a great late finish and it was something that I also worked on on some of the games in the women's event a couple of weeks ago and again they had conditioned the rocks just before the event started so the rocks are very aggressive from the start in case they settle. they go down a little bit as we go, but they will always have a lot of curl so I have to ask here someone is not familiar with some of those terms here, so when you say conditioning, are you talking?

I'm familiar with the concept of wallpapering rocks, is it the same thing or is it yes, it's the same thing, everyone calls it something else. I've talked to a couple of ice makers who hate the word well, of course they used it. call it sandpaper and they just hate that phrase because if you've ever seen sandpaper, it's one of the best grips, like you, you couldn't get the skin off your fingers with that sandpaper and really, like me, I've had it . It was explained to me and whether this is true or not, some of the manufacturers could speak better.

It doesn't really do much to remove the edge of the stone itself, but there is something that has been explained to me. There are microscopic pits and ridges in the surface of the soil and over time they fill with silt and other debris and the sandpaper removes them and re-scrapes the edge so that now there is something there to grab. I do not do it. I'm not an ice baker, that's just the only thing that's been explained to me, but it makes sense, yeah, I would have thought that, but that explanation makes sense to me because you know I've always imagined it. you know, a coarse sandpaper, you know, and we've always talked about you, it's just that there's a limited amount of time that you can do this, you know, because it's quite abrasive to the rock, so hearing your explanation has a little bit more meaning to me.

I know they're not using coarse sandpaper, it's very, very fine, but it's amazing what a difference it makes and I was involved in the Players Association here in Saskatchewan when we first tried to involve ice makers in sanding rocks and Of course, now even the manufacturers recommend it, so now it's much easier to convince people that it should be done and at that time and that was just 20 years ago we were talking, we were always talking about the Isis Street ice Isis Street Isis Street well now it makes a lot of sense if your rocks curve it's easy to make the ice curve it's not the ice that curves it's the rock so the things we learn as we go yes, it is, yes, it is , it never evolves The sport and more technology is uh and what we know is that it's always fascinating that the little punch that became a biter actually covers Shot Rock.

John Epping without the last stone here in the first ending could choose to cover that now and see if he can't steal this initial ending as the decision was to throw further than that, they wanted John John Epping to make a play and maybe leave them a double yeah now if they are, if they're looking to protect, that makes a big difference if you actually, wrap it up and just say, go like top eight or is that okay, I could and just because if you try to go around it and you don't bury a piece, it's a double nose punch on the yellows yeah if The corner freezes the red Oscar Erickson probably has no choice but to just take them both out to have some kind of chance with his last place being pretty good here for Team Epping at the start of this game.

I think Timidine wanted to roll further than that on that last attempt, good shot, good weight control, but they didn't get the spin they needed, so John Epping, with his first level in the first position, looking to just protect the situation in the Rings, he has some curling to do. but we know that these rocks really finish hard, yes, and they do it very well. Now it's decision time for Oscar Erickson. Do you try the double peel on the guards? Or I think the other shot he was looking at came from what would be his intern. as a lefty try to freeze that yellow in the corner and I hope you get a chance to somehow pass it with the last one there that's what he's talking about so don't think he's looking too much playing against the guards it's a tough doubleheader and probably come back, yeah, is there ever a situation where maybe you can get us to play up front, maybe more or less well?

I guess the split helps you at all, no, well I mean, if you move it out of the way, the yellow makes it accessible and you have a couple of counters on the side, so maybe you can try to make a slice in this one, the one in the top four, although I think what John will probably just do. goes in the top eight, yeah, the part of the split that would probably help you the most is the one that you push to the left side of the sheet from the aerial view because that one might move up to the yellow, yeah, but uh, of course, John Epping knows it too and he's going to take it away, yeah, oh yeah, like I said, if you split up, you might have a couple of options for some kind of career here, but okay, it's playing this.

I went back to the double exfoliation, which is what I initially thought only because it probably ensures you have a chance for the latter. Yes, you may not have it, you may not have a chance for two, but right now it's difficult to score. trying to line them up to see if I could bring the red back to the yellow not critical uh more important just to get the two guards out of the way yeah the yellow on top will cross the top of the red so Honestly the red will go back to through the house somewhere, if you hit the ones in the house you're more likely to jam the yellow one in the back than clear it, but they'll be happy to move it even if you catch it, it's behind the T line, this he's going to roll up too much on them, he does the double peel but leaves the shooter right there, so there's still John Epping sitting in the corner of the button behind the cover, if there's a saving grace for uh timidine, it's the John Epping, when you loop this second you can't get a second shot it turns into your own face yes you even saw it.

I think Matt took a look at it just to see if we got to the faces that could have been. a chance to steal two here, but if they leave this where they would need to be to be the second shot, they would find themselves cornered on their own and that could leave Oscar Erickson enough room to make the double brushes on this one jump a little early. Through this, of course, knowing that he couldn't afford to be heavy and bounce, throw him to the planers and if you come up a little short, what does that change?

Oscar Erickson will still have to play a tie, well he tied for the button in the pregame to get the last Rock here in first position now we'll see if he can do it again with that last Rock to get the only point yesterday I had the chance to cancel one of their games, so I was aware of This I should probably point out. It's always interesting to see these three-man teams and how they want to line them up. Christopher Sungren, who throws the lead stones for the team, holds the broom here for Oscar Erickson. Rasmus Rana will be the one who brushes and we will.

I saw several times yesterday in the game that I called them uh I know Oscar has played a lot of doubles, I don't know about the other two, but here you see them coming, you will see these guys when we are playing in the three-handed formation. They go up andThey sweep their own rocks quite a bit. No need to sweep that one up. a steel one for John Epping, so you'll take a look at it, shaking your head a little bit, it looks like it'll be close, like, oh, let's have a measurement. like a stick now, I haven't actually physically been in the building , so I don't know how centered our camera is over the hole, but my initial thought is that it looks yellow and I thought quite a bit, but you know, yeah, what the things are when you ride a jack?

I have been doing this for several years. One of the things when you mount a camera on a building is that you have to work with what is there and if you are a couple of inches from the center line. This distorts your center line and T line, distorts your slightly odd angles. Thanks to everyone who joins us on YouTube and in the curling area. We have over 400 people watching and uh it's like clockwork I think it's a robbery here yeah I think it's yellow here so of course it's the curlers that don't measure a referee so they don't point to the Rock to tell us for sure, but I do believe it. it was a steal of one John Epping will have a one point lead when we return foreign foreign foreign already underway here from Swift Current the first stone was brought to the Rings it reached deep to the back of the eight teams place the corner garden now John Epping and I didn't see the indication.

I don't know if you saw in Mark: do they enter the house here or throw a guard? I think they're coming in, yeah, okay, if I had done the house, it would have been fine. the center line, I think they opted to stop sweeping just to make sure it stopped near the center, so they ended up with a guard just off center. In reality, they weren't thinking about protecting the one behind the eight who aren't there. The problem is that you don't have the final stone, so you play as a center guard hoping to eventually draw Oscar Erickson's attention away from the corner, for now Christopher Sungren will try to go around that corner guard if he is buried.

I don't think they can shoot a rock over the one in the back, but that's not important this early in the end, it just shows how much finish there is on these rocks. I probably had about a foot of space going through the yard. it only had a 12 foot top weight, it's half buried and he put it on the T line, you couldn't see it Patrick Jansen now the silent weight is looking to remove that stone he just threw, this is only the fifth Stone of the end, they have to have a little careful passing by the guard and he moves early oh this is on the guard yes but he can be decent well if he kills the guard it doesn't matter oh yeah that's it. right, yeah, and it wasn't just the fifth stone of the end, so it's a free guard zone violation, a guard steps back, the shooter is removed from the game and that's always the tricky thing when you play a shot like that.

You can see half of that rock, you want to go after it, but you almost have to err on the side of caution and grab some extra ice. Yeah right, they jumped into the sweep right away, so that may not have been the broom so much as the release that you usually don't call the brushers right away when someone splits the broom on their release, if I can say that's it. discreet enough, uh no, I think it's okay, you know, I'm sorry, just do a play on this one in the back here now it looks like we offer this type of shot do you want to open up here?

I think it's probably like that. Yes, I know what you're thinking. I think you are on the right line. I think I'd hate to stay behind that center guard and have John Epping frozen, so you're just looking to get past that yellow and roll a little bit more into the open space like that, yeah, John's got two rocks he can hit, but there's really no double. and strong. so he can roll behind cover you have to hit and roll to the center guard from this one in the corner, but again, it's tricky because you can't see, you can only see about half of it, of course it's in the back Patrick's mind is that maybe he didn't throw the last one very well, this one seems to have a little more weight and a lot more line because they are sweeping the curl and I wonder if that's one of those things I started with I tell you that the last shot was in the back of his mind and maybe he made up for it a little when he fired the second, the whole conversation here and granted we can't hear them, but it's all going to be about Where do we put the Third Rock and the first thought of Oscar?

You'll see it a lot with this Swedish team, especially with Oscar now holding the broom. I saw him a lot yesterday. He will review all the options except the first one shown. It's usually the one you come back to, that's how your Instinct is, that's the shot you want to play, they'll discuss the options, yeah, and I think this makes sense here, you don't necessarily need to group those below the corner, I think it was the other other plan. Yeah, and I don't think you want to start circling the center, you're one shot away from getting taken away, so keep that play away from the center guard, if you can, you would have liked to keep this. high enough not to leave a double and I think he'll stop in time for Matt to be asked now to make the hit and roll in front of that red on the eight foot back, if he goes a little further he could finish covered.

Plus, they had a couple of options here. Matt didn't make a tie in first position and the stone that ended up on the board to make the shot here could pass the red, so the little thing, but maybe it will stay to shoot. oh, no second foreigner after we were not told about the measure, Oscar immediately tells us that the red rock is shot, the yellow rock is also partially buried and now the question is: do you really want to chase a lot of rocks? the back, I mean, that's your first thought is let's make the play on this and sit three no, there are no microphones on the players, of course and, yes, a lot of times, when we have an international team like this, no I'm sure the microphones work. help us because there's no chance they speak English anyway oh yeah I mean if you don't ask us what your other options are here I mean you just drive at this point well no at this point I think if you were going to go around, you'd go around the middle from the exit curve side and, very much in the top eight, you might never bring that stone in the top of the 12 feet, but you're still solid to get two maybe. three, you want to make sure you get the roll here, if you sit there you've started to create a pocket on the back of the foot and John Epping is just going to put one in and take the whole end off, this is really curly.

There has to be some edge to this, yes, I thought they would, I thought it was going to get to the uh, that was a very good job by Christopher Jr., good with the brush to keep the line, there it extends enough, I want That is, if he stays right on the nose. I think you'd probably see John Epping make a draw, but right now there's not really a pocket back there, there's too much space between those two, so we'll make a play on Shot Rock, try to get him behind that. Center line guard again and he knows there is a lot of space from the guard to the rock in the back.

Oscar Erickson probably makes another play but he starts grouping those rocks and he just needs a pocket back there and then a good draw. and he's off this end he needs a little finishing on this one if he's going to get the roll it's a little bit of roll but not enough here so now let's see he just stayed out in the open and left enough to uh timidine to play the hit and back to the open side, the nose hit probably leaves enough room for the double, although you would have to go over the guard to achieve it, if you only throw a couple of inches, the doubles there you will surely need to get a minimum roll about 18 inches here just to not leave a double and yet I don't want to leave the house too close to here, that's a yes, good finish.

I lost a little bit at the end, I get a few inches of roll, but there's definitely an angle there for a double now John Epping didn't look at it for long he puts the broom down and I think with that broom we're going to see some weight coming here, no it absolutely has to hit. It's not that flat, but you want to make sure you have enough weight to kill that second rock and you know that if you hit it right, there's enough angle for it to come off the first one and a little bit off the top of the second one. one that could spin for Shot Rock and behind some cover that would be greedy, but John Epping can make those shots.

I'm going to push it to give it a little bit of curl here it makes the punch look like it caught a little bit of the front edge of that rock and you saw it start to spin it just didn't have the legs to get up Undercover still takes off two and has shot rocks Oscar Erickson is going to have have to make a play, it looks like maybe it has room to roll Undercover too, wow, that seems like it, it looks like a lot of ice because it's a backwards stepped port, it seems a little difficult to roll in that direction with a calm weight just because of the type of meat of pork that he has to go through.

I thought he might be almost forced to throw a little more weight, it's not that he can't do it, you know he's perfectly comfortable doing that, it just goes against your instinct when you're trying to hold a rock to the back of your hand. home that way. just the quieter you can cast it the easier it will be to make sure you hold the trigger it just makes the port a little bit harder yeah we'll see how timidine navigates this line here oh my gosh I have to wait. he has to get off center guard before they can do anything with the brush moving now oh I have to go now I have to go makes the punch roll him right behind the corner timidine sitting two John fucking can't do much with the two stones who are there could play a pick on the top I guess admitting it's not an easy pick although they've already missed that stone twice yeah I was going to say yeah I mean are you surprised or not because I'm talking about that shot ?

It was still there, what was there before at the end, that kind of silent, hidden movement towards the center, yes, but again they've already missed it twice, that's true. What's up with this one with that Redstone on the back. uh Oscar just rolled if you can get around the half guard on this draw attempt in the top eight feet it's pretty hard for Oscar to get it out without getting it stuck on that rock now the only thing you can't do is curve the card too much. this has to stop on him oh uh it stops in a really good place, just shot.

Oscar has multiple now is playing a kind of race to the back. I thought I could look at the yellow straight back, but he's looking at the angle on the red one and I saw him do one of these yesterday, uh, yeah, that's about the yellow ones would have been a little simpler, right, it's only for two , he has to do double if he throws the yellow one, but they are closer together and it's a bit. Further back, this is the distance between the rocks, rather than the angle, which makes this difficult because the further away there is between the two rocks, the less margin for error you have.

He got to this pretty quickly and I think He had had this on his mind for the last minute, well they were probably already discussing it before John came down to the other end. They knew John was playing the draw, so what are we going to play if he makes the angle no? bad, it's probably a little thicker than half a rock every time you hit more than half of it, that's pretty comfortable. The problem is, like I said, when there is that much distance between the two rocks, you don't have much room for error. the potential for three years, even if you just make contact with it, hit it and miss the raised stone, it's for two on the early brush, I need to hit just a thick half here, this looks like it's going to be a really thick half and just she drives. between the stones at the Rings it's going to be another steal of one for John Epping will take a two-nothing lead after two late game timidine with last Rock again in the third good morning foreigner foreigner with you here live from the Western Showdown of IG

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is third and ongoing steals one in the first and second for John Epping, has him leading two nothing here as we start to play the third and they started the end with the center guard one in the top of the eight Behind Timidine had thrown the corner guard with the first stone and now looking at the corner frozen in a shot.

Stone, this might be a little strong, it's going to come off. Thanks now for the teams looking to get into the frozen corner in that situation. Is there a difference which side, relative to the corner guard you come in on? Well, every team has its own preferences, of course, you know, I might have been tempted if you knew the line for sure. I would have tried to come from the other side because then everything is healed, ready to go to your corner guard when you start playing, uh, the punches later, yeah, it looks like they may have a chance here, yeah, that rolled a little more away that they would like to make the shot and uh sits two for the moment Oscar watching just touching that shot Stone again almost back, you hit it back about a foot you have aavailable double of the one that just rolled is It's always fun to see how these teams approach these types of endings, of course there is no panic in any of them, they are quite comfortable with the rocks in play, they know they can move them later, yeah , yeah, especially with the double creation abilities on both sides here, you know, things can change quickly, we have a good line coming in, it's actually going to pass the nose, well, we'll get to that corner on the other side that was the shot they made.

They were searching in the last one, although they came from the other direction in the last one, the dean continues to sit at this moment his first thought was to follow the red now wondering if we fight twice, if we ever fight twice without Last Rock, you only have one two point lead, it's a pretty defensive call, but yeah, at least let's say yeah, I mean, I'm fine going in there, well, there's still Shot Rock too, that's the other thing. it's a straight up defensive decision here and if you don't get the second guard I'm not sure it will help you much yeah Patrick Jansen looking for the double shell catch the yellow appears on top of the red clips don't completely remove him from the game but move it enough, it really doesn't protect much anymore.

We have someone who synchronizes the time in the chat. Yes, the score is 2-0 for Epping. Dean will work with production to achieve this. corrected here, is it going backwards? here he is, he's looking to surround those two staggered Stones. I always like that call. I say I like that call, not necessarily from a strategy standpoint, just for the fact that no one calls it or you know what it's like. You certainly don't usually see it in the third ending, it's usually more of a desperate last part of the shooting type of game, but yeah, on this ice it's definitely going to go and your only other option at this point in the end is to shoot. a kind of garden.

John Epping is already enlightened that he is willing to peel these guards and, uh, force you to blank this end, not only will he go around those two stones, but he will also go around those two eight stones and bite into the four. gets to the final four and it's buried yeah it's well played so Matt K. I'm going to make a play with the two stones at the top of the eight footer it's red anywhere on the nose or a little bit on the high side, the red and both the yellow ones like to roll their handle a little, at least to open the back one.

It is important to hang it on the edge of the 12 feet because that could be the stone that gives you the strength instead of the ability to get the target. Oscar looking at the punch and the flip possibly double and you saw him indicate that we have to be a little careful not to block this on our own, yes, but now he can possibly bring that more cornered guard into play. It's really interesting. Yes, it will be interesting to see if they are going to play hardball for Bell or just the role. Yeah, I think they're more inclined to play the role instead of the straight double just to keep the shooter close.

You know, you even saw Oscar indicating hit, turn, touch the second stone and turn a little. You don't have much room to turn and continue in the house, although yes, it's hard to tell even from the overhead camera angle. If this rock is tall enough, can you hit it, just roll and sit anything in front of the corner of that Yellowstone or are you going to be right on the side? I think there's enough room to think it's high enough to reach. Yeah this is a little tricky trying to cross the face, here we had the line they needed and just with that quieter weight, the control weight doesn't turn enough, a double would be thin and you would lose yours.

Yeah, I think John Epping is just looking at the hit and roll here, yeah, yeah, I think he's going to create something that's going to create a better opportunity down the road here and I think with that ice, uh, I was going to say he's probably going to look for a weight as well. older because you. You have to hit the first one pretty full to make sure you don't cut your own yellow outside of 12 feet, not that missing that won't kill you, but it takes away your strength, so if you have to hit this one first. pretty thick and you want to get the big roll you need a little more weight and this is too small oh my goodness it jams it on the side and misses the second stone, plus we were talking about a force and now a two is certainly in play and, uh, if you can't make a double, yeah, this looks like three, there's a double there, but there's a lot of space between those two rocks, you know, it's been an interesting game so far.

I've seen some failed shots from the Epping team, you know, and they still have this 2-0 lead, you know, it's quite interesting and look at how this has developed so far, of course we don't have. microphones on the players or even any Ice Level audio at this point, but you couldn't hear a sweep call or anything to indicate. I just thought the way John Epping stood up it seemed like I wonder if that don't don't mess with them because it looked like he was suddenly gone, yeah, there's a lot of late movement there, you know, uh, maybe I think Rumba is the mirror line from the jump perspective, so that's how John John's head appeared, usually it's like something just happened and he wasn't expecting that's what I thought, that's what I saw from everyone Anyway, maybe they had a bit of an unlucky break there and as unlucky as they could be because not only did they not make the shot.

They were actually looking they got stuck alone abroad do you like it here? They're both tough because the one behind that John is looking at is very skinny and I think the cue was that he's just going to play the hit and roll in front. of him on top, yeah, yeah, that rock stopped about a foot higher, it's a pretty natural double half rock, but right now it's very thin and it was well handled and well swept to make sure there's enough separation, but, Of course, you must maintain it. in the ring, so it's okay, of course, if John Epping can roll in front of that rock, he doesn't even have to be dead in front of it, even if he is, you know, he could be a rock on the side of the line central.

Oscar Erickson couldn't hit it and this one is throwing too yeah I'm actually going to cross the face to get to the left side yeah weird if he can hit and roll here there might not be a double anywhere I guess that double the long cross house is there. I don't know if that's something John Epping would be happy to consider. If he's the only double he has, he could play it, yes, yes, maybe alone. maybe foresee at this point, Sean, do you think we're going to start to see teams make some adjustments with their hitting and how they're, how they're freezing it or do you know if that's, you know, throwing more weight and you know how to play ? it's tighter or it has more rotation or you just have to uh you know, they'll figure it out, it's one of those things when you have these aggressive rocks, especially when there's late movement, it makes a big difference, yeah. exactly you have to exactly match the weight that you throw on the broom because really one of the reasons they finished so late is that the big move comes when The Rock starts to slow down, he holds on a little bit more, so if When you're throwing, you order a great weight and you throw half the weight, that rock will move drastically more, whereas a lot of times in curling clubs where the rocks aren't as sharp everything will move about the same amount, here's one. where Oscar Erickson has a little more weight than John Epping and he again he won't take the finish because he has a little more weight.

The Rock wasn't slowing down when he entered the house; he's still in a pretty good place. no easy doubles. I'm not sure what that broom is, it has a lot less ice here. Are you looking to play double heavyweight? Yeah, very thin, like just to read straight through, yeah, yeah, I'm surprised you're not taking the other double, the other double seams, I mean. it's flat but it looks much more natural to me so John Epping with his final stone here in the third end without the last rock facing three looking for a double, they were in the weeds straight away, he has to hit this first one very thin, it's close and makes the The blow hits just above the top.

Wow, he gave it a good run and I think when they made contact with the first one they thought they probably had it. I thought they probably had it. You couldn't hit that first one much thinner. Yes, really. Really short, you know, it gives Oscar Erickson a chance now to tie it at three and after giving up back-to-back steals on one and two, this would be his first chance to take the lead. Oscar Erickson, his last stone of the third ending. I'm also already sitting there trying to draw for three, jumping up to help sweep his own Stone and it was one of the things I noticed yesterday, of course Oscar is left handed so when he jumps up and joins Rasmus, they're actually both able to do it. he sweeps with his sliding foot as the lead foot is a good combination, yes he puts it right on the button, he doesn't need to brush it on the three points of the board for thymidine, they jump to a 3-2 lead, John Epping will have the last Rock for the first time when we come back for the foreign room, you can enjoy curling with your friends and family anywhere and anytime, let's play curling, hey, wake up, there's a lot to see, look up, look down, look quickly over there, look for a small problem. but not too much open your eyes to something new every day the hustle the bustle the calm the serene maybe then you will see that sometimes you have to go far to get a little closer so wake up the day is far from over take advantage of the days we ask Saskatchewan what do you know about 5G uh more speed more innovation it's going to make our lives a lot easier.

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I'll get this final quarter with a 3-2 lead and they threw the center guard with the first. one team, Epping continued with the corner guard and now the attempt to go around the center Christopher Sungren foreigner my apologies it seems that they were playing with the second center guard here John Epping chose to go around those two center guards and I think this It's a case of If you can use your own corner but those guards are overlapping, you'll eventually have to deal with them and you don't want to let Dean's team in first for Shot Rock, so look for the staggered guards. in the center there is a lot of room in the front, I don't want to go too deep on this one, you take it even to the top of the forefoot and you would see Oscar Erickson try to follow it down and it would shrink the ring so that is a great place for that stone , it's buried at the top of the eight feet, even if it freezes over, you have plenty of room to score a second point, okay, so I'm going to try to go down and try to sit on the top. of that yellow maybe at a small angle it doesn't want to bounce off this rock at all, it will leave it in a great spot.

Good thing about that angle if John Epping doesn't do anything with the guards. I can still see a little bit of that red which gives you a chance to use it to get rid of the Yellowstone and leave something behind cover for the moment. John Epping is going to look to come from the other side. He tries to sit you down too. Patrick. Jansen, the insider draw, they were on the sweep straight away, it's not just the rock in front that they're worried about getting ahead, they have to worry about getting ahead on their own at the top of the eight, great job from the planers to get ahead. when they had to completely sweep it up, it ends up a little deep, but for the moment it's also sitting, allowing for the possibility that uh timidine could follow that rock, sit in front of it and remove both. of those yellow ones for now OMG, it looks like a lot of ice, but you know what ends up here?

Yes, just look at the Jensen stone and how strongly it curved. This one definitely has more room at the start, half the weights are close, should finish pretty hard here. really curly now yes, yes, there it goes, yes, you can even go over it. The difference really between those two stones is that Patrick Johnson's, they had to sweep it from one end to the other when he had that one, uh, it was just over the T line. By itself he didn't have to touch it before, so he had a lot of line from the beginning and it was still moving A lot at the end John Epping will have to start cleaning things up in the middle now that the stone is well buried and overburied in the tighter of the two.

The middle guards, so they're looking to do a double peel here could get into the Rings and start moving those things from the top of the eight footer as well, yeah, because he's going to try to get this red to almost adouble, but as if it goes over the top. the top of that red, yeah, it's playing double over, it could go into the two of the house and again, the way they're angled, it's hard to tell how it's all going to spill into the rings that we hit on the other side of Redstone. double but leaves his shooter there for a center guard the red-yellow combination at the top of the five foot is hard to make out from an aerial view you really have to defer to the players on the ice but it looks to me like he could trim that red on the back of the button um yeah, it looks like yeah, I would think about it and then again if you bring it in, but that probably continues with the yellow on the back after I do that, that's true.

Yeah, you never get to that low side and then you know, I don't know, I mean the Rocks, there's some separation, but I can't imagine there's much drag on the top, it probably looks better. Looking at it from the shot behind the house, it still looks to me like the yellow would cross the top of that red, but crop it out, that will probably take you to the back stone and you can't see all of the Redstone on top. Of the eight, if you're throwing it with any weight, you still have to hit it on the outside, so I'm not sure John Epping can do much with that, they're more concerned with taking the other side off, they know it's potentially going to go . to play some type of run as well, the concern I would have about playing anything to protect, as we look at it from above, the left side is that John Epping may end up throwing the rock with the uh.

Internal, where that stone was on the button a moment ago with the guards overlapping, it was a little too buried, it's buried now, but I think you can, I think I could get to it, so Erasmus Rana will look to be in the top 12 here still. Basically, they're playing him like a guard, they're trying to protect the shot. Rock on the button, but they need some separation from that yellow center guard because they expect John Epping to try to get something in and make some shots. I don't think this was the call, but it's going to work well for them because he leans back.

Stone is also sitting two, now a foreigner. I didn't see him call that now he may have done it. he called it to the other end and said if we came up short and stopped at the 12 feet here it would be nice too if you knew you could do it you could have called it ended up in a great place John Epping looking at this red yellow combination that now certainly cuts the red, but again now also certainly the Reds go straight back to the yellows again on the yellow here you can still get all the rocks out of the area in front of the line T first read the one that is going to make contact it probably won't go very far and at this weight quiet it seems like they're just trying to move things back there knowing that of course they're going to have to block one so they want to keep the Yellowstone that they're promoting I want to keep it in that four foot area that has to be a place where can use it, that's a pretty good result, probably the best they could do might have even taken rock out of it and Changed the angle of the two stones at the top of the five feet, took a rock shot, is also sitting fourth back and there is a double available for the Reds and Oscar was considering possibly playing if they were looking to play him themselves. to try to turn around and get shot Rock or was I just pointing out that this is duplicated here and it's a problem yeah I think so I think you have to do it well I guess you have a couple of options here you can or you can just if you freeze. to this one here, then you'll just leave Epping in the turn-out draw if you freeze.

I think he'll probably he'll come out of the open and try to roll back a step two that way, yeah, are there ever enough curls that you can do? this with back 12 probably looks like they're playing to pick it, yeah, the other option they would have and that's one they didn't talk about, although you wouldn't necessarily play it that early. He is yellow red on top. of the 12 feet are lined up to go pretty much backwards, you can just touch them to the corner of the button, you probably wouldn't play it that early because it would leave the angle on this Yellowstone, this one is close to the guard, great job. in the brush to get past and we'll just get him over the top and his shooter rolls without touching his own stone, good for John Epping now, if you want to sit too, you play double, the problem is that you're behind. the T line still not sure what else you would have, it's possible to turn, but I don't think there's any way for them to turn to the front of the tee, yeah, I think what's the other option here, Sean, right? just drawing like the first four just drawing, yeah, the first four buried uh, you won't be able to bring your other Stones back, but uh, if you do this double and you sit four feet back and Oscar Erickson does the freeze right, you're not going to get to bring those other stones, so yeah, just checking YouTube, we have a camera with a big weight that makes twice as much sit there, it really didn't spin much at all.

The camera took the shot of the throwers on that stone on the back and on the forefoot. he's buried dead and if you just freeze perfectly, I'm not sure what John Epping can do to be able to follow him again and get shot. Rock, you'll still have a chance to safely score your first I thought it was the freeze and we've talked about it before we talked about all the options. I think it's Rasmus Rana looking at the alignment of those two stones at the top of the 12 feet and using drag, Triple could be possible. the three yellow ones you have half a rock on the yellow one that Redstone is going to drag back, yes he is definitely going to drag a certain amount and he wouldn't have to go far to do the triple, actually he would be more worried. that he would go through the nose and just jam the back end.

Stone convinced him. I thought you'd still see it play the freeze, yeah, so I looked to make contact with about half of the Yellowstone at the top, maybe even a little thicker than half, so I don't want to drag it past that rock on the back so the yellow slides completely to the side, the red will come back at a small angle, they hope to catch the tip of that stone. on the back of the forefoot and double the two on the back if it goes over the nose it may get stuck the butt will have to be close to the middle here this is going to be very thin well even then it didn't happen over there. touch both Stones, leave the one behind and leave the shooter in a pretty good spot or not the shooter.

I'm guessing it's Ray Stone, which is not a call you'll see in your Wednesday Night League, so Erickson is sitting, there's room. For John Epping to make a play, he will have to roll into the open and look to get over his and try not to leave a double there still in good shape to get the Deuce off of him, depending on where he can. shoot two with this one and these haven't been shots in all the game we've had, we've had some problems with some rocks curling, you know, in certain places here and here you can't, you can't really curl too much here, no It doesn't seem like They are worried about too much curvature because they skipped the sweep from the side to try to curve it.

He will have to go up. He's going to make contact. Wow, will the shooter hold? No, that is going to be deployed. Well, that's a double hit because not only does Oscar Erickson now have the opportunity to play the back shot and you know that if you had rolled to the point where you left him a double, he could have done it too, but you could actually go under from that center guard, you might not have a chance to blank out either. We have 700,730 people in YouTube chat. It's great to see. Yes, thanks for the comment.

It's not. I know it's a girl Michaela, yeah, Chase, yeah, you know, I would have thought it was easy, just that line, oh, this one, look, this one looks like Spotlight, but then it slipped a little bit, yeah, it hits the spot but stays in the right place. there, it gives Epping a chance to make the shot go away, get the blank, the last rock in the fifth, we talked a lot about how aggressive these rocks are, one thing that's never changed, if you throw it hard, will not move it. Isn't it slowing down? He'll never hang on, so John Epping is one of the best at throwing these weight shots, so he puts the berm on the edge of the rock, throw it nice and hard, he'll stay there the entire time. very low he hits half a stone, goes blank and John Epping will keep the last stone until the fifth end of the play, following a foreign game that we all love, but sometimes curling is not as fun as it can be on Nintendo Switch.

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minus Nicholas zadine the dean with a 3- lead 2 Here, as we start to play at the fifth end, John Epping has the last stone, yes, Christopher Sungren through the center guard with his first.

There you see it just finished when we come back from commercial. Scott Chadwick with the return to the top. Eight foot blood is now looking to follow that druggie, he's actually coming from the other side, he's not really following him, but he's looking to come and sit on top of him again. Wow, there wasn't much separation between the synagogue guard and The Rock, uh, eight feet tall, but I had a fight in that buried spot, nice and lined up there, John Epping looks to at least eventually ski the play away from the center, uh Scott Chadwick to come and I think the call here was correct in this is a situation and you see this.

We talked about it a lot during the broadcast with these top teams. You know my playing days are behind me, but it used to be that you would see teams worry about managing the last rock and it even ends around six seven eight. in a final eight game with these top teams, they're doing it from the start of the game, they're doing it from the first one, so John Epping, in the back of his mind, before this final even starts, thinks that we want a blank space. five and he's got the last Rock and six, so he's not looking to play like a corner guard, he comes right down the field, he should be able to do it if you can blank five and take that last Rock in the six, yeah, he's one down , but you know, I think most of these teams, John Epping, certainly one of them, will tell you that he is very happy in that situation where he is one down playing six with Last Rock, he knows he has two hammers left, he is Well, he's losing, but I think he'd take a chance on that. any day, but they were looking for the straight back, takes it the other way around, removes the stone from the back, still leaves Epping sitting on top of the eight feet and there are no center guards, now just the corner that belongs to the shy Patrick Jensen. to look to go around it so Sean just stepped back here so you know if Erickson knows you know

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is looking for the blank and opened up there it would have made sense to just hit the open rock and maybe play that run . a little later, at the end, you could argue for that, certainly, of course, timidine probably won't be entirely awkward to hold the lead or you don't want to just give them a two just because you don't want them to whitewash the ending mm- Hmm, no I can see a lot of that rock, but there is also no double available on the top one and if you play with the middle one, you still have a problem with that rock in the corner of the eight feet that was only hisIt's still going to be a shot rock and it's not easier to deal with that on the next one, yeah, so looking at the strange return run in the brush makes the hit run it back, the return rock is going to roll. the house and a little too far away to sit Shot Rock and it's behind the T line so John Epping looks to freeze and still has the corner guard on the other side.

This has to be the guy and John Epping is very happy. to play this because like I said, you'd be happy to leave this end blank if you're going to hand it to him, he'll take it, but there's no risk to him, this end there's no chance of a steal left in there anywhere . Right now it's not looking good for a force either, so John Epping feels very comfortable as they play on this end, they can't freeze, but again, with where that stone is situated, Oscar can't play the role towards the medium, it will get stuck in the nose. blows that I think by still sitting one and will leave a double also foreign just a nice comfortable and risk-free ending right now for John Epping and, uh, if you're Oscar Erickson, you know you'd love to force this and get the last rock, but yeah, right now you're not seeing that anywhere and this one is taking off.

The danger of the jam here, well we saw this two ends ago from the Epping team who gave away a three on a very similar shot, it was actually an even thinner Jam that stone right on the side of the sheet on the other side and now with the jam and throwing too much opportunity for Epping to set his own three right now and yeah after these draws I don't see any doubles yeah we'll have to see if he gets this one because I mean you. You have to go behind t for this one, right, yeah, yeah, if you leave it higher, I guess maybe there's a double somewhere on that side, but if you can see it, it's got room, I could bury this and still be the third shot.

Yeah, because he still can, he can still have about eight feet buried in that corner guard, they're on the early sweep now they backed off on the early sweep, it's usually an indication that they thought they might have been a little tight. , but there will be many. The space comes next to the guard, yes, there is a lot of space here, what is the weight going to be like? Yes, it should be checked well, well, it will make contact with that one here, it comes down to that stone, it pushes it back a little bit, but it sits three and I don't.

I don't see a double no and I don't think Oscar sees a double either, I mean, either you're here, you're hitting and rolling behind everything, well, I think what they're looking at, you play that hit and roll, but you do that. and it leaves them directly towards the two at the top or do you ever just hit that rock that's right on the back of the forefoot, hit it on the nose, hope it gets hit on the nose again and then you have a cross. double house, you could follow the one that was just thrown, but unless you stay in the inside corner, they will still sit too, that's not a great situation, you can always hit the one on top, but you won't get a second shot. that way, so I think they're making a play on Shot Rock.

I'm just not sure if they're playing for the sake of it or if they're playing to sit there, you know, I guess you could play it and take any outcome here. then we can play the turn out, I'm not sure about you, I mean you just played the shot a little higher in the house, but you played it with the other turn and I'm not sure why they're changing turns, unless that maybe they just haven't done it. The way the last Stone ran it seems like they're trying to get tough for the roll, here he makes the hit move towards those two but stays wide open, unfortunately when you try a roll like that you've probably made it.

It's easier for John Epping to roll out because he now has a little more room and rolls a little deeper when you make the turn as well. He could be right in front of that stone on the other side of the eight feet after doing this. Now that you're late enough at the end, it would be too much, uh, I don't know if they'll have time to even start putting the Rocks together again for a double, looking to hit the jackpot here needs to keep a shooter. on the eight footer make the hit, it will roll and do it.

Stay full eight footer, that's a great spot, great shot, good weight control and this could just be a case of Oscar Erickson looking to make a play with the two at the top now just so he has something he can bury behind him on his last, so if you're making this call to those in the center, you have to kill that yellow rock, are you just looking? push him behind T yeah well I don't think you want to give up four so you have to kill him yeah okay that's fair enough and the key is I don't think I want to hit him in a straight line.

They're seeing it go away a little bit and the reason for that is that John Epping won't be able to play double because he has two yellow stones in the back that he could block, so maybe you can leave one. or two stones available to maybe hit John Epping was going to play them and nose hit any of them, probably not the third shot. The foreigner makes the blow spin the shooter enough so that he can touch any of those stones, difficult for John. to play double if he knows he hits any of those, his shooter is not the third shot, you don't want to ignore them either because there are two stones that Oscar could use.

Yes, I'm on camera indicating the throw of the yellow and I believe. What they're talking about is what is the shot that Oscar takes right now if we don't throw anything, yeah, and he's going to hit that yellow back and roll behind the red one, so do you worry about trying to take that away and if you do? How do you do it? Yeah, I mean, I think you just have to hit the one at the one o'clock position. position and just roll, here's the thing if you hit any of those rocks, yeah, you only get two, yeah, and that's exactly why Oscar Erickson played it, I think, and they talked about it.

I saw someone indicate that you shot. Keeping the three alive is probably turning from the left side as we face it in front of the house on the right on the roof and just going around the edge of the Redstone to the top of the eight feet, yes, removing is hit. and they bring out some kind of Christmas tree from behind and I still don't know if there will be doubles available, so it keeps three alive. The problem with that is that it leaves Oscar Erickson with the two rocks at the top of the 12 foot that are dangerous rocks that if he decides to make a play with them he could take away the entire end now yes, he could also give up four, but yes , that was a very interesting shot played by timidine here, I mean, I'm still a little I don't know, I like this.

I think the indication that John's last cue hits the beat where he's on the 11 o'clock side opens up what he's probably thinking there. If Oscar hits the back, one hides behind cover, you'll have kind of a double back, it's still for three, yeah, this is very interesting, so you know the double is probably there at the top to fail. both yellow but it's risky are the hands on both sides it's hard to get it and miss both but you might almost have to hit eh you play to hit the one at that o'clock The first side is a little thin so you get into the back , yes, or at least on the side of the stone on the other side and of course when you hit the first one, you put it on top of the yellow one. on the back, yeah, but if you ever hit the back of that right, you're doing that double, that makes that jet like on the forefoot to the T line where you leave it behind, yeah, I could say Still, yeah you turn towards the top of the forefoot, it will still be a very skinny double, yes, very interesting, it's just hard to achieve anywhere without leaving potential for a double.

Now, whether Oscar would play or not is another story if you do. he's not sitting three, he's not playing a double, so you'd have to kill them both. It seems like that's what they've gone for and I think the indication there to Matt, right when he asked, they knew what they were going to play and and how they wanted to hit him. I'm not sure I established what spin he was going to throw. So John Epping, who is looking for double in the first two, must be quite thin in the first, but not so thin that he drips. all the way they were sweeping for some loop, they didn't get enough, he makes the double, but when he makes it, that gives Oscar Erickson a chance to make a play on the open Stone and John Epping will still have a chance to make two. here, but it could have been three, yeah, uh, now, if you're Oscar Erickson, here they had a stone before at the end, uh, Rasmus, around us, that really moved them so much that the next time they had the opportunity to play the success.

They made the other bend here, yeah, so this might be a point where you're trying to hit this right on the nose knowing that the place is a little tricky and maybe I was a little worried about that coming unstuck through. a lot of weight, yes, I was going to say it seemed like a lot of weight, but more weight than I expected, yes, with the release, John Epping will have the opportunity to draw with his final Stone needs a little better than the full 12. a two and regain the lead sitting one who is already behind the eight and a half meters, as I said, a little better than a full 12.

Pick up the two of him, the brushers picked this one up pretty early and when it's both brushes, that's usually an indication that they're in the mood. needs the weight, looks like he's good on the pig line, they'll keep him going until the end to see if they can get Skipper to the button, yeah that'll be enough eight to get his two. John Epping takes a 4-3 lead after five ends of play, he'll be shy of the last rock in the sixth, thanks, hey, wake up, there's a lot to see, look up, look down, quickly look over there, look for a small problem, but not too open.

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John Epping calling the center guard here and at number six and Oscar Erickson throwing to another. layer before calling the corner, yes it must be cold there, we have seen it and talked about it a couple of times, there have been some teams. I think I saw Kevin Kui twice yesterday getting up to three layers of material. uh three hoodies underneath are uniform and it was a light winter jacket on top. I've played this range in Swift Current, but it's been a few years. I seem to remember it being on the cooler side, yeah yeah, someone in the YouTube chat was mentioning that they were seeing Oscar as a package up there and we can see that some jackets in the world were behind it, but as this game gets going on, I'll just take a quick look at some of the other games being played here, for scores and updates you can visit curlingzone.com, but you don't want to do that now.

I'll be happy to read some scores here, we have a tied game. in Jung's hacking game, team Laycock has a six to three lead or team Burnett in sixth man and then we have a final in the mirrors, Calvert match, uh mir is winning that one, eight to three , so again, four scores, uh, ranking. I can see how the group is moving. I don't know curlingzone.com for the latest information there and other events around the world. I know we have some events in Calgary, so some. of the other top teams on the women's side are playing this triple knockout event this weekend here of course in Swift Current, so the winner of this game is already in the playoffs, but everyone is still fighting for one of the eight spots between B and C in The Myers game you mentioned, Ellen Myers got the early win, uh, in that game it's a sea of ​​N action, so we already eliminated our first team, yeah, the other two games They will be event games for which three teams would qualify. the playoffs through B and the last three teams through C, the action continues this weekend, we have ties this draw at 10 o'clock Saturday morning we have two and seven again today ten two and seven again tomorrow that seven The draw tomorrow night will be the quarterfinals.

You can watch all the action from all the games on the Curling Stadium YouTube channel. Yeah, I'm still amazed that they can provide coverage for every game. It's like you know what it is. Yes, I'm just talking about you. I remember when it was like you knew you had to be on the featured features sheet to get coverage.I remember those days, but to be able to bring the production of all these games, this is great, so it's great. plays here to start this sixth end, it's a Dean sitting two or sorry, Epping sitting two right now timidine with Last Rock, they have the third shot buried and a chance here now to come and make a shotstone play behind the corner guard Now if he's going to get to the nose and maybe even roll buried, he's not going to be sitting after this, but that's okay, second and third buried so early in the end is still a pretty strong position for identity, yeah, and There's a lot of curl here, so I should be able to get to the low side here, although the sweepers don't touch this and now they hurt the move, now they're going hard at that guard, there's not enough weight to take him out of play, I can't imagine it though, Oscar. really thinking about the blank on this end, anyway, he definitely wants to score, he would like to score two, but if you had to take one, you know teams are always willing to score on the even end, Assumption is, for Of course, if you don't see.

If you have a blank on seven, you'll have a second Hammer, so you'll want to work on getting your Deuce here. John Epping is looking to play a running back with Patrick Jansen and wants to be far enough away from the nose to take out the corner shooter. He would also have liked to have caught one of those two yellow Stones, now it works well when he crosses because he pushes the center guard and protect Shot Rock, before that it was completely open, yeah, okay. let's make a decision here I mean, I think they would love to run that back and yeah, and roll into a corner, but yeah, it's the other guard that's actually protecting Stone, but all you can do with him is really take it off or or try the double back but then leave the double in the corner so it looks like you said Mark to try to get a couple things out of this run, the center back guard maybe cut the one behind the other guard and get a corner out of everything at the same time this is greedy I mean, yeah, I think you might have to do it.

I think you have to play just to get to the hidden corner and if you can, take that one on the way. that's a small advantage, well it doesn't even matter if you take it, you could refill it if you did, yeah, at least you're Shot Rock, you could even be sitting too, yeah, I mean, I think they have to take this on. here, yeah, tapping to maybe just get to the top 12 or top Eights as buried, but that makes the disadvantage of hitting this Stone again if you don't make contact with the shot Stone, it's still buried, yeah, so look for the mild one.

The angle runs back, but really a big part of it is that he wants to turn around and protect his two corner stones. This is going to be maybe a little thin, it drives it around the top eight stone and it rolls too much, I'll say. worst case scenario, yeah, you don't get the corner guard and you go over the yellow card and then John has a pretty easy double here to sit down, uh, two or three, probably three. I don't see it being difficult to shoot. and still do double. I think if you're throwing, you're probably blocking the first one, although with that broom you have to think that Matt Cam throws a big weight here on this double and makes the shot catch the moment the shooter rolls. to the other side of the eight footer and sits three and now it's starting to look very difficult for uh T M

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a to create any scoring opportunity looking to run the guard back, catch the rock on top of the eight footer is the only one in front of the T line in the house, so it's the one that causes the most problems, but even if you do this, it still seems difficult to get more than a blank here would have liked to have hit a little bit.

A bit on the other side leaves a guard up and at least takes out the stone on top of the house from behind cover. Thanks and where did he leave that guard if he had hit him the way he wanted to hit him a little bit. On the other side he rolled into a corner. John Epic will probably fight that guard all day, but now he's close enough to the center that he's thinking about trying to use him, for one thing, if you're John Epping, this will probably eliminate white space from the game. and maybe gives you a chance to steal, but it also leaves stones in play that Oscar Erickson can try to use to generate two and will always have again, he's the lefty and will always have his turn draw available.

The button to gain a lot of space for the guard, but you can see that the rock almost goes to the side when it enters the house and falls, probably three quarters open, that's actually a pretty good place for it because if Oscar makes the hit and roll. behind the rock he's looking at now, you might still be able to promote that rock, yeah, I'll give it a quick tap there, yeah, yeah, okay, Oscar's looking at it if he thinks he could get in the side of that rock, believe. comes after him, he had to make a very deliberate upward movement with his brush to make it touch the other Yellow Stone, yes, I don't think rocks roll that way, yes, like a missile, but even then, I don't think you're. on a missile, I mean, you might be able to make that shot on a pool table if you throw some backspin on it, but yeah, I haven't seen anyone throw backspin on a curling rock before deciding to this double here and it's just Central well I think they're playing it like the hit and roll now I wasn't sure until they put the broom down I wasn't sure how hard they were going to play it because the other thing is that the uh the first The stone that you're running backwards it's probably getting stuck anyway.

I don't think you'll get double that. The roll may be a little thinner at first than you would have liked, so you get twice as much, but doing so throws them all away. the path through and foreign offside at the top of the eight now works as a garden, it's taking a bit of the button off, yes in some ways it probably seems a bit more natural for John Epping to come from the other side but Of course, what he's thinking is that you can see most of Yellowstone if you come from the other side and just bury around the Red Guard, you'd probably have left twice as much on the yellows if he could, uh, put it on a tree Christmas right here as we call it just get a piece under the yellow one yeah no double for Oscar you would have to choose which one he wants to hit uh this doesn't look like ice so much if they want to keep it on the left side of Center here.

I'll be very curious to see where this ends. The planers were on this early, not just the line, but the weight they want to get this to the forefoot if they could exactly where it hit the ice before going. to the other end, at the top of the forefoot, you have a small portion of that stone under the yellow at the top of the eight. Oscar Erickson could go from what would be his inside side as a lefty, but the two yellow Stones are one or the other will probably be available to promote his Stone if he does it abroad, if you don't do something good here, the stone he just delivering John Epping is actually the one that can make it very difficult for you to even score. your last one, if you just hit it, you will surely have a chance to score, but you won't have any chance to score two, yeah, so I guess that's the question: is it important to have a chance to score two here and in which case you play the tie and hope Jonathan can't make the short little run.

Yeah, I think you just have to play this race back here and give yourself a lot more options here. You know you might be able to play The Run. double the yellow ones and if you hit it all spills out just the red stones that you're running back can turn back uh the more rocky, yeah, yeah, I mean, I think it's a lot to ask for, but it is, but it gives you a little bit. more room to operate you know this is probably your best chance for two this is just uh on the other side this is the shot that guarantees that you will have a chance to score now which one is playing here I'm just wondering if I could make a play with Shot Rock , but I wonder if he's playing with The Higher One.

Silence, walk past him and then try to sit in front of the other Stone that might still be there for two. Yeah, I think they talked about my assumption. It would be that they talked about both options and uh and uh Oscar said when I get to the hacks I'll let them know what I can see and I think he's decided he can see enough of the top so they'll make a play. on the top one try to pass it around and then sit across from each other, it will leave them sitting on the second Shot Rock, but with a short run on the shot and probably still deep enough in the house they could count for more than the one. on the back and maybe still get two, it will roll a little further than they would have liked, it's still hard for John Epping to ignore that rock, if he doesn't, if he hits it, he'll probably have a shot to score at the less in a perfect world here, you hit and roll right into your own face and then for Oscar Erickson to double it, he has to lose his shooter, he couldn't play double.

I'd have to throw that in turn, draw towards the button, yeah, I thought it looked like he set up the room pretty quickly, so I think he's throwing pretty firmly on this here, oh, I guess not, they'll be looking for some kind of paper, Yeah. is close makes the hit visible and puts it right in the face there is no way to duplicate them without losing your shooter, yes, and that is the shooter, the one behind steals, so Oscar Erickson will have to play in the wide tie, yes. This is definitely the yes, it has to go wide for this one, yes, well, that was the danger in not playing the stone for Oscar Erickson in his first.

You may have a very difficult shot left to score, but it was probably his best shot. The opportunity for two simply went too far it gave John Epping the opportunity to hit and retreat and he does it perfectly Oscar Erickson now with his Final Stone facing three epic encounters, the two at the top of the house and the one that bites in the twelve from back. you need to open up on what is your inner side and grab the edge of the button if you can to get the single point tie in this game there is a lot of space, it seems like around here it was just the early clearing, I had to wait for the lines. curling will now need to put this pretty right on the t-line and grab the corner of Oscar Erickson's outstanding tie button we're all tied after six game ends John Epping Nicholas Dean looking for first place in playoffs Epping with Last Rock in seventh foreigner will be able Stream every curling game from every sheet of any event to be your source for Wednesday Spiel League play or corporate event Curling Stadium offers an all-inclusive streaming solution that includes high-quality cameras and ease of use and great reliability and minimal setup offering your sponsors customizable advertising space on your live curling games and being able to sell video packages for your corporate events to increase revenue with Curling Stadium you can stream to any device, power your mobile phone, tablet or computer, Pushing the feed to your desired platform, be it Facebook, YouTube or any other social media, stadium curling is simply the way to go, where it is common in other sports to televise every game.

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There's nothing better than that seventh then. Otherwise, here in our main matchup, the qualifier, Dean and Epping tied at four when we started playing here in the seventh. Epping has one last stone and I'm just saying we don't have a camera shot that can see how. This end developed, but I have to think that the first stone slipped inside the rings, yes, he was probably called as a guard, but he slipped inside the rings, they hit and rolled towards the corner, now the center guard made with the second lead stone and Epping. Now with his final lead stone looking at his options, yeah, it looks like they're backing eight or he pointed to a guard, but he didn't seem too happy with that, yeah, I'd be surprised to see him play in the outfield pointing. and he might have been pointing out to maybe play The Tick as well for John Epping right here, that the game plan is simple, you'd like to see a blank or a two and on the other side, the other side, Adeen's team. they want to see a single point on the board, they don't even care who scores it, they will take a force, they will take a steal, but the other two options are not good for them, so it will be that way. some cat and mouse played this game or this one and it's always difficult when you're in Epping's situation here because going for a two versus going for a white is significantly different inthe way you approach the end, so you almost have to wait to see what the Americans do, yeah, and then react to that, if he's going to give you the white, you take it if he's going to give you the two and You see that it is a team that is trying very hard to force and they.

I will force you to well, I was going to say that they force you to two. I often joke about that and say you have a team trying to force you to one, don't be afraid to let them force you to three. They were looking for the ven. It lays everything bare and here this boils down to exactly what we are talking about. Oscar Erickson doesn't want to leave him a chance that blank doesn't want to just hit that yeah so I'm just thinking a freeze keeps some stones in play but in the end they don't want to force him to make three so I think they decided to play the foreign hit, there is only one more game at stake here.

It is interesting that in this draw we have two internationals. teams in the field here in Swift Current this week the other the Koreans uh Zhang still on the ice are trailing Cody Hartung by a score of five to two who is on B of N Action and in the seventh final there are also two B finals of N Action Steve Laycock over Damon Bernath nine to three and uh the 1C event game the first C event game for Allen Myers over Braden Calvert eight to three the winner of this game moves on to the quarterfinals tomorrow night at 7 pm the loser will be back on the ice at seven o'clock tonight with a chance to get a playoff spot through the B event, but the other thing that influences these playoff spots where you would like to get that event in Earth, the teams have practice before the game. and draw to the last rock button in the preliminary round once you've made it to the playoffs is the highest, the highest ranked team is the one that gets the last Rock, so if you qualify through a you sure have the last Rock advantage in the quarterfinals and in the semifinal if you reach the final, where you are.

If you played the other in a qualifier, you would have to draw, so one side would take whatever playoff spot you could get. There are some advantages to getting this spot through Epping sitting two again and Erickson facing the same. decision looking this time, I think in a direct tie around the center guard, the hitman is there, yes, the head rolls there, but do you think the tie just because it's easier to do, partly because it's easier to do and I think the other factor there is it hits you, you play the hidden roll and you make it.

John Epping is going to run through the guard and then you're getting too close to a blanket if you do the ladder, he could do that anyway and you're still looking at a two, yeah. but I guess if you want to draw back maybe four to get to this trade, you could get more separation with the draw, sure this is fine. The other thing is that with the draw you can turn your stone into a steel. position with this hidden roll, you'll be in the best of the top eight and you don't really expect to steal with a rock like that, yeah, foreigner, looking for the role here, we're in an early sweep and we're just going to pass guard. but it starts to bunch up the rocks a bit on the other side, that's a bit by design to get it a bit closer to the T line, well certainly if Epping rolls behind cover he'll now have a piece of the button, but you're deep enough for them to freeze it and seek strength that way.

Patrick Jensen had some line issues on his strokes today. I don't know if he's just not equalizing the weight with the broom, but again looking for a little extra curl with the brush, there they remove the stone, they continue to sit too, it's actually a bit of a difficult double, I'm not sure Erickson wants play twice as much anyway because, again, we're. going back to looking at a blank space, yeah, so I think they were considering just hitting and rolling on top of that or you deploy. I think you have to play a role either way, whether it's rolling over or undercover, we talk. about both options, you can hit and roll in front of the one on the 12 foot or hit and roll towards the center and I think I saw him discuss a third option, you could also hit the stone on the edge of the 12 feet and roll. under the yellow one or passing to the guard that leaves the yellow a little closer, the yellow one that is in the Rings would still be the eight foot one, it could be something you could also use later, that stone in the 12 feet If you play the wheel towards the middle here that rock on the 12th that will never help you will always be the one that costs you the second point, yes, while the one on the eight footer could be something you could use later, they all discussed the options to do the Play on the stone at five feet and when they come at it from that side, I have to think that they are playing the role towards the center guard.

Yes, I must think that the foreigners have not been easy in this game. so we'll definitely be with them to handle this down here, having to go early because the sweep may be too dense to get the roll completely behind cover, yeah, I shot Rock after the last two hits, that rock started to rise. a little further up the house, if John Epping makes the move behind centre, he will still be at eight feet and a freeze by the Indian team would still leave a good opportunity for two for John Epping to turn on the sweepers. now back and forth you want to get the roll and if they're switching that's usually a sign that you're close this moves a lot at the end it'll go past the guard so they're trying to get through well you know the information we have.

I've debated among scrolling circles for the past few years, certainly from the Four Rocks and even from the Three Rocks about, coming home, would you rather be one up without the last rock or one down right here in this situation? I'm wondering if you re uh Oscar Erickson, do you have a decision to make? Would you rather be tied without the last rock or two and have the last rock? Yeah, because that could get to that, I mean, it's shaping up, they might get to that where you have to do. a decision, you're going to give John Epping a two chance or a blank chance and that might be why they're looking at the draw right here, the hit and roll is still there, you're going back to four feet now, yeah, and with the amount of movement that we've seen on this ice rock so far back, uh, John Epping will have the ability to get that one through the 12 feet, sit two again, certainly can make the shot more difficult, just a little thin, a little thin again and the foreign shooter loses well, now if you're John Epping you can, you can make your own choice and he didn't hesitate at all.

There's this idea that you could have come this way, you let them hit the open, you'll definitely get it. a chance for two and you might even have a chance for three he wants the blank he wants that last rock in the eighth um now here's the thing if Oscar Erickson doesn't want to give him the blank at all you play the frozen one here yeah yeah , I like this, the other option instead of freezing the top corner, you could also try going right after it. Well, just come, yes, yes, foreigner, do a good freeze just slightly on the side of the center line and John Epping can throw a lot. weight, he will try to shoot it, but he will have to go 11 feet, yes, to get through the rings.

The problem with these shots is that you don't get many opportunities to play. This is the third game for both of them. For these teams in this event, a lot of the pregame practice is geared toward the button draw, a lot of the in-game play is geared toward going to the middle, so when you have to throw a rock like this toward the rim of the 12 feet, you just haven't had much of a chance to play this to know for sure exactly where to place the broom. It's kind of a guess, just the shot or the only stone in play that the shot swings on the edge of the 12 footer Oscar Erickson looks to freeze in the face if he can slightly on the side of the center line is pretty close here no need to curve a little Needed just a little more weight also comes a little short, well you have to think that if John Epping was willing to take his guard off on the last one he would rip it off, he wouldn't take his guard off on the last one and then change his mind to go for two.

Now you have to be careful here. I don't think there's any danger of him outrunning this one. No, John Epping with his first with the big weight is only looking to kill the Redstone shooter offside. Oscar Erickson will have the same shot. available for his last his and again the problem here is that you play for the shot, you know John Epping is going to blank, you take this shot if you can weld it right in the corner and wow, the line of him on the last It was pretty good. A couple A lot of people expect, yeah, maybe squeeze the hair broom if you have any pieces in front of that Yellowstone, of course, you need to get shot.

Rock, it probably won't be a two-man shot for John Epping, you can leave the space blank. difficult or if you play a shot like this and they didn't talk about it at all and I don't think many teams would play it, but if you are, you are absolutely determined not to go to leave them blank, you throw this rock in the eight feet of the other side and you force him to hit it for two oh, it seems to be a little better, it has a little more weight here, just waiting in line, now they waited. too long you have to get shot Rock I think they're Shot Rock I wouldn't want to bet on who I think it might be yellow John Epping thinks it's yellow he's ready to draw but he'll give in to Matt, yeah if he's close The problem is he probably won't have a blank space now.

You'd like to duplicate those two. You'd have to punch him in the nose. You hit it on the outside. You walk away. You will only get one. You could play essentially the same draw. that Oscar Erickson just threw and chiseled that stone to make sure you have two, yeah, it's a scary shot, yeah, and I guess giving up a steel one isn't the worst thing here, well, that's Yeah, the more I look at that, the more I'm starting to agree with you, Sean, that I could be, well, and it almost doesn't matter, I mean, if you didn't want to cheat, if it's that close, what do you like if? it's close enough that you think you have to measure and you draw towards the middle and you only get one that's not very good, everyone's looking at it, it's very close being so close do you think they're just going to try to do it? try this blank here, well I don't think there is a blank, where do you see the blank?

I mean, just hit the high side of the red like this on the uh, if you're playing, yeah, and then, boy, that's it. very precise, yeah, over the curl a little bit, you hit it on the nose, you get more stuff, yeah, under the curl a little bit, you drive it, you get a good one, I don't know, this is, it's definitely there and I think that's what you're looking at, that's the last indication that it's definitely there, with two weight lines, just tap the inside and roll, yeah, yeah, you can get two that way for sure, uh, what are they all on the what we have? thousand people in the chat, what do you think?

So question a motion. I'm glad I didn't throw it away and then what's the decision based on your assessment of who Shot Rock is here, so I think Sean, his vote is the same. it just broke inside yeah I think you know it's so close they can't be sure who shot Rock so you can't really ignore it yeah and this is probably the easiest shot they have left. and they did it in part because they just saw Oscar throw it twice, so they have a pretty good idea of ​​the line. John was exceptionally heavy all afternoon and he had to go to try to keep this high side here, yeah, he wants to catch this as thin as This might be getting really complicated for him, so he might have cursed him.

I talked about how good his weight has been all game and how it would be better if they didn't touch him now and back off, so I think we'll look at the measuring stick. Sal, yes, I see a couple of people telling me in the chat that we have a yellow one and a red one, so let's put a stick on it and if you could give us an indication on the shot of it, we would appreciate it. We talked about it when the final started, it's the approach that the two teams were going to have and I said that Timidine is happy to see a single point go up on the board either way and that they are going to get his wish now, I just have to see a measuring stick to determine who has the advantage and who has the hammer, but this is probably the best scenario for team 18.

A single point either way, yes, puts them in a manageable situation. Or they return home. where they got the last rock, yes, and that was well done. John Evans had an exceptional draw weight throughout the game. It's surprising to see him come up a little short on that, yeah, you know, that was well played by the A team Dean to get that. to this type of situation where you know there are no guards in play in the uh, this is the result here again, they can be happy either way a lot of times in these measurements you don't see the stick touching both socks, I think it definitely goes to be like this.

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