Guideline for Day Women Tuesday/Thursday Recreational League
The primary focus of the Day Women Tuesday and Thursday Recreational league is skill development, fun, and socializing. While small prizes are awarded to the winning teams at the end of each series, this is NOT considered a competitive league.
The League aims to allow as many women curlers as possible to participate. There are approximately 4 series each session, with each series being 4 to 6 weeks in length. Players are assigned to a new team each series.
At this time this League is unique since it allows women to curl on Tuesdays or Thursdays or both. However, it needs to be reinforced that with the rise in numbers and the frequency of some series being oversubscribed, that women are only guaranteed one of the two days and only if there is room then they may be added to the additional day. There can no longer be an entitlement to both days when our numbers have increased so much.
Curler Guidelines:
Registering
- Participating curlers must be paid members of the Club and they must have paid the Day Women Tuesday/Thursday Recreational League fee.
- New curlers are strongly encouraged to complete a Learn to Curl program before joining this league.
- Curlers sign up for each series separately on the Club website by the announced sign-up deadline.
- For each series sign-up, curlers can sign up for either or both of Tuesday and Thursday (although curling on both days is NOT guaranteed). At each sign-up, curlers are asked to indicate:
- The dates that you want to play – Tuesday and/or Thursday
- Your preferred date of play – Tuesday or Thursday (in case the convenors cannot put you on a team both days)
- Your first and second choice of position
- Any other comments that you want the convenors to be aware of
Curling
- Curlers will be notified by email that the teams have been posted on the OCC website prior to the start of each series.
- Curlers should update their sparing availability for each series.
- Curlers are responsible for finding their own spares to fill in for any absences (e.g. vacation, illness) and for keeping their skip informed. This can be done through the spare list on the Club website.
- Games can proceed if a team has only 3 players. If a player arrives late they can join the game to sweep, but if they’ve missed their turn throwing their rocks, they should wait until the next end to throw their rocks.
- Up to 3 players on a team can be spares.
- Make your way to your assigned sheet as soon as the ice is ready for play and scoreboards have been reset to zero, “shaking hands”, and determining hammer by the Club specified start time.
- This League follows the Club Bell Rule and the Five Rock Rule.
- Teams are encouraged to play as quickly as safely possible to play 8 ends.
- Vices keep track of the score and total ends up to an including the 6th end and then play the 7thand 8th end for the win. Vices should record win/lose/tie, ends, and score on the Scoresheet posted in the Women’s locker room. Eight end games should also be noted on the Scoresheet.
- A decision to end the game after a minimum of 6 ends will be made by the team with the lower score.