DW Rules

Guidelines/ Rules for Day Women Recreational Draws

The primary focus for curling on Tuesday and Thursday mornings is for recreation, skill development and socializing as opposed to competition. With this in mind, we try to do our best to accommodate as many women in order to ensure that as many women as possible can enjoy a morning of curling.

• Any woman who is registered in the Day Women section is welcome to join Tuesday and Thursday games.
• Sign up is conducted online. Players may sign up for whichever position they feel competent to play and to challenge themselves. Players are asked to sign up for more than one position to make it easier for the convenor to create teams.
• Teams are randomly generated by the club’s system. After the teams are randomly created, the games convenors review to ensure that the teams are balanced in terms of skill level.
• As the year progresses every effort is made to ensure that the players are not on the same team more than once. The reason is so that women get to play with and meet as many other members as possible over the course of the season. Likewise, every effort is made to ensure that women do not play on Tuesday and Thursday with their Monday competitive team teammates.
• Once teams have been established for a series the convenor informs the office of how many sheets of ice will be used for the series.
• Players are responsible for finding their own spares to fill in for vacation, illness or other absences and for keeping their skip informed. This can be done by looking online on the spare list. It is important that all women keep their sparing availability updated.
• Games can proceed if a team has only 3 players. If a player arrives late they can join the game to sweep, vice or skip, but if they’ve missed their turn, they should wait until the next end to throw their rocks.
• Up to 3 players on a team can be spares. In order to avoid games being forfeited and to ensure that members get to play we don’t observe the OCA rules of at least 2 original players. Some women only play on Tuesdays and Thursdays and therefore the convenor should put a huge effort to ensure that the women get their games in. It is also for this reason that we encourage teams to play all 8 ends.
• Vice’s keep track of the score and total ends up to an including the 6th end and then play the 7^th and 8th end for the win. The decision to end the game will be made by the team with the lower score. We encourage all teams to stay on the ice until the bell.
• The Bell Rule is in effect for these draws.
• Be on the ice shaking hands, spinning for hammer by 9:10 am and the for the skips to be in position
• At the start of the game, the clock is set to ring at one hour and thirty-five minutes. When it
• does, teams will completed the end they are in and play one more.
• The clock will then count down another twenty minutes at which time you will hear another ring. This signifies the game is in the last end.
• Each end is deemed to be finished when the last rock of the end crosses the near “T” line as the skip is throwing it.
• All games are expected to be completed within two hours
• Players then have time to socialize after the game in the club.

Scoring Tuesday and Thursday Draws

(vices are responsible for recording scores immediately following each game)

Scoring and Ice Assignment Instructions;

• The games convenors randomly pair teams up the first week for their first game.
• For subsequent weeks, pair teams up with the closest accumulative score (ends won and points allotted). If teams have already played against each other in the current series, then pair teams up with the next closest accumulative scoring team.
• Take the previous week’s allotted points to (10 for a win, 5 for a tie, 0 for a loss) + # of ends to arrive at the cumulative points for games played to date. Blank ends add ½ point to each team’s # of ends.
• Assign sheet #s randomly. If possible, teams should not play on a sheet they have already played on in the series.

How to determine the overall winners of a series;

Teams are ranked based on their total points (# ends won + the total number of allotted points).

Should there be a tie at the end of the series, to determine the top three positions, the tie break will be broken using in the following order;

1. Compare the accumulated scores of each of the teams involved in the tie. The team with the greater score will be determined the winner.
2. Compare head to head competition. The team who won when the two teams met in competition will be determined the winner.
3. Compare the last day of competition to see who won the most points (ends won and allotted points).

4.     Compare the last day of completion to see who had the higher scores the last day of completion.