Listen, I'm a fan of the Winter Olympics and all. I'll tune in and watch some random **** I would otherwise never give the time of day.

However, I'm not interested in scanning the Olympics threads for the true GOAT Olympic sport, CURLING.

So I figured we should have a thread for this for the people who recognize the one true GOAT and want a standalone place to sweat the best CURLS, ROLLS, SPARES and of course TAKE OUTS of these games.

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Are you new to CURLINGGOAT? I envy you if so. Here's the basics (I won't paste dumbass long rules, just gonna tell you what you need to know)

- A team of world class athletes set up on the ice dressed to the nines repping their land
- They all have a bunch of 'stones' that are pucks they haul down the ice with the precision of World War snipers
- They kneel and place the stone while gliding like ballerinas then release the stone before the HOG LINE
- When player releases the stone, his teammates slide down the ice parallel to the stone on either side with the grace of goddamn angels manipulating the ice to get the stone where it needs to go
- There are circles on the other end they want to deliver the stones in to. The most center circle is the TEE
- Teams wanna get their stones as close to the tee as possible, and the other team is trying to knock their **** out and get theirs closer, so whoever goes last has an inherent advantage. This is called THE HAMMER and you want that son
- Each team has a boss called the SKIPPER who calls the shots. SKIPPERS are some of the best athletes on the planet.

I'm guessing you're at half chub by now, so what makes CURLING on 2P2 so great. Let me introduce you to some LEGENDS OF THE SPORT:



Also, the Canadians appear quite good but I'll let someone else give that preview justice

Saw Shustaaaa a few times on NBCSN since the Olympics, he lost those matches too

SHUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I haven't been hyped for the Winter Olympics yet, but this post now has me hyped

I love me some curling

SHUSTAAAAAA

pretty sure we could get a random team of 2+2ers together and have a good shot at a medal.

Yeah except not

The girls are quite attractive though

I'm not convinced the ice scrubbers do anything though I applaud the whole charade

Ugh I don't wanna ruin the thread, but the sweepers were TOO good that they solved the sport and they had to change the rules of sweeping:

http://www.curling.ca/blog/2016/02/0...eping-in-2016/

It got to be essentially what you do in Tiger Woods golf - where you somewhat mi**** your shot but spin it back to what you want it to do.

http://www.cbc.ca/1.3757810

IN for curling

TV schedule?

Warning. Reporting the next one of these

"- There are circles on the other end they want to deliver the stones in to. The most center circle is the TEE"


Incorrect. That centre circle is the button, the tee line is the line that runs horizontally through the button and intersects with the centre line at the button

Also:

Thanks for clearing that up

In for SHUSTAAAAAH

Also in for Rachel Homan, that rink is well on the way to becoming GOAT

read those articles, I have a friend that curls competitively and told me that you could throw a board weight hit (weight a few feet more than the hack-which is where they push off from on the other end of the ice) and miss the broom by a foot and a half to either side and made the shot before the new rules came in.
Doesn't work for me on my club team with my two senior citizen sweepers that are using brush heads that over a year old.

Anyone not voting Canada is clueless about curling

canada obv the favorite but pulling for NORWAYYYYYY

also curling is fun as hell if any of you can join a league i highly recommend it. plus you always get drunk afterwards, it's a win win!

I see you're a fan of pants

In for Eve

The obvious frontrunners

Russians appear to be the most technically sound team on the women's side. I mean, look at this flawless form!




2nd outfit seems like it would give them an advantage, for aerodynamics or something.

Smh at some names on the Canada vote list