CURLINg
BONSPIELS
OF ALL KINDS
start date to be determined. stay tuned!
A MONTH'S LONG TOURNAMENT!
TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS CURLING TOURNAMENT FOR HUGE PRIZES YOU WILL NEED TO BE A VIP CARD SPONSOR (See the Special Vip Sponsorship Package) for the costs and all the benefits and incentives of your VIP Card. Limited availability for this tournament, don’t wait to get your card!This tournament is specifically designed to allow as many, non – professional players to participate. So, rinks of all kinds will be allowed to sign up for this one. Although there will be many great prizes, it is designed for the masses to participate and to have fun. Of course, you may also enter many of the other tournaments, as well. However, you will need to do that when buying a trip or a VIP Card. We strongly encourage every town to participate. Let’s see who has the best, most fun – loving teams in Manitoba & Canada.
RULES, REGULATIONS, AND PRIZES WILL BE COMING SOON
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called rocks, across the ice curling sheet toward the house, a circular target marked on the ice. Each team has eight stones, with each player throwing two. The purpose is to accumulate the highest score for a game; points are scored for the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each end, which is completed when both teams have thrown all of their stones once. A game usually consists of eight or ten ends.
The player can induce a curved path, described as curl, by causing the stone to slowly rotate as it slides. The path of the rock may be further influenced by two sweepers with brooms or brushes, who accompany it as it slides down the sheet and sweep the ice in front of the stone. “Sweeping a rock” decreases the friction, which makes the stone travel a straighter path (with less curl) and a longer distance. A great deal of strategy and teamwork go into choosing the ideal path and placement of a stone for each situation, and the skills of the curlers determine the degree to which the stone will achieve the desired result.
THE ACTUAL PRIZE POOL IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AND IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE NUMBER OF ENTRIES INVOLVED IN THE TOURNAMENT.
Sweep you off your feet!