Curl PEI’s Provincial Mixed Doubles Curling Championship will be held at the Silver Fox Curling and Yacht Club in Summerside, December 11-13, 2015. Last year’s provincial winners were the Kyle Holland/Katie Fullerton duo, from the Charlottetown Curling Complex and the Cornwall Curling Club, respectively. The winning team will move on to represent PEI at the National Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, March 31-April 3, 2016 in Saskatoon Sask. The World Curling Federation (WCF) has developed a Mixed Doubles World Championship, and Mixed Doubles has been officially added as a sport to the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.
Photo: Mixed Doubles play. Provincial champion Katie Fullerton is on the right
Entry deadline for the provincial championship is November 20, 2015, and entry fee is $80 per team. Entries must be made online at PEICurling.com
Entries to-date may be viewed at the event website at peicurling.com/mixeddoubles.
Rule revisions
In September 2015 the WCF passed new rules for Doubles play. Curling Canada plans to adopt these rules in mid-November. Here are the new WCF rules, with additions and revisions indicated.
Rules of Doubles Play
1. A team is composed of two players (in Mixed Doubles they are of opposite sex).
2. The scoring shall be the same as in a regular game of curling.
3. The “positioned” stones that are placed before the beginning of each end are
eligible to be counted in the scoring.
4. Each game will be scheduled for eight (8) ends.
5. Each team shall deliver five (5) stones per end. The player delivering the
team’s first stone of the end must also deliver the team’s last stone of that
end. The other team member shall deliver the team’s second, third and
fourth stones for that end.
6. The player delivering the first stone can change from end to end.
7. Modified FGZ – No stone in play, including the “positioned” stones and
those in the house, can be moved to an out-of-play position prior to the delivery
of the fourth stone of an end (the fourth delivered stone is the first stone
that can remove any stone from play). If there is a violation, the delivered
stone shall be removed from play, and any displaced stone(s) shall be replaced
to their original position by the non-offending team.
8 (NEW). While the team is in the process of delivery, the non-delivering player must
be positioned inside the hogline, with at least one foot on the ice surface at
the playing end of the team’s sheet, OR, in a position on the team’s sheet to sweep
the delivered stone. After delivery, either or both players may sweep their delivered
stone and any stones set in motion that belong to their team anywhere in front
of the teeline at the playing end. This applies during all of the team’s delivered
stones, including the Last Stone Draws.
9. If a player delivers a stone out of proper rotation, that stone is returned to the hack
to be delivered by the correct player, after any displaced stones have been replaced
to their original positions by the non-offending team. Should the infraction
not be discovered until after the delivery of a subsequent stone, play continues as
if the infraction had not occurred.
10. Based on the ice conditions, when no event official is available to make the decision,
the teams shall determine the specific placement of the Position A Stone prior
to the start of the pre-game practice (if applicable), and that same placement must
be used for the entire game.
11 (REVISED). Position of stationary stones – Prior to the start of every end, the team with the
choice (or hammer) shall place their team’s stationary stone, and their opponent’s
stationary stone, in either position “A” or “B”:
-The Position “A” stone is placed bisecting the centre line, midway between
the hog line and the front of the house.
– The Position “B” stone is placed so it bisects the centre line and the back
edge of the stone is in alignment with the back edge of the four foot.
If they choose to place their stone ‘out front’, they shall deliver first stones in the
end. Therefore, should they choose to be behind the button, they shall have last
stone in the end. The team not scoring in the previous end, shall have the ‘choice’
in the next end. If the end is blanked, the choice shall change to the team that delivered
first in the blanked end.
12 (NEW). Power Play – Once per game, each team with last stone, has the option to place
the stones in a “power play” position. The in-house stone (A) of the team with last
stone in that end is placed with the back edge of the stone on the teeline, splitting
the 8 foot and the 12 foot rings. The guard is re-positioned from the centre-line to
a direct line between the middle of the in-house stone and the middle of the hack.
The in-house stone will be directly behind the guard. The guard position will be at
the same distance from the rings as the normal position of the centre guard for that
game. The team calling the power play can decide which side of the house they
would like the stone to placed. A power play cannot be called in extra ends.