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MEDIA GUIDE WORLD MIXED DOUBLES CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP 2018 Östersund Arena, Oestersund, Sweden 21-28 April 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2018 – MEDIA GUIDE 1. Links and Contacts Event website: http://worldcurling.org/wmdcc2018 Swedish Curling Association: http://curling.se Facebook: https://facebook.com/WorldCurlingFederation Twitter and Instagram: @worldcurling Hashtags: #WMDCC2018 #curling Photography: http://photos.worldcurling.org Statistics: http://results.worldcurling.org Local Organising Committee Media Operations: e: [email protected] Jörgen Nilsson World Curling Federation Communications and Media Relations Manager: e: [email protected] Cameron MacAllister p: +7937 604957 Broadcast Manager: e: [email protected] Joanna Kelly p: +372 592 442 35 2. Officials World Curling Federation President Kate Caithness Director of Competitions and Development Keith Wendorf Technical Delegate Darrell Ell Local Organising Committee Chairman Rickard Hallström Officials Chief Umpire Ken McArton (CAN) Deputy Chief Umpire Anne Malcolm (SCO) Game Umpires Marg White (CAN) Ki Gennemark (SWE) Johan Fahlström (SWE) Joaquim Reimertz (SWE) Jens Rigtrop (SWE) Chief Timer Graham Batchelor (CAN) Deputy Chief Timer James Hustler (ENG) Statistics Christian Saager (SUI) Nadine Saager (SUI) Natalia Yanina (RUS) Chief Ice Technician Jamie Bourassa (CAN) Deputy Chief Ice Technicians Susan Thornton (CAN) Patrik Kapralik (SVK) www.worldcurling.org World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2018 – MEDIA GUIDE 3. Spirit of Curling Curling is a game of skill and tradition. A shot well executed is a delight to see and it is also a fine thing to observe the time-honoured traditions of curling being applied in the true spirit of the game. Curlers play to win, but never to humble their opponents. A true curler never attempts to distract opponents, nor to prevent them from playing their best, and would prefer to lose rather than win unfairly. Curlers never knowingly break a rule of the game, nor disrespect any of its traditions. Should they become aware that this has been done inadvertently, they will be the first to divulge the breach. While the main object of the game of curling is to determine the relevant skills of the players, the spirit of curling demands good sportsmanship, kindly feeling and honourable conduct. 4. Anti-Doping The Anti-Doping Rules of the World Curling Federation will apply: ● http://www.worldcurling.org/rules-and-regulations ● http://www.worldcurling.org/anti-doping-and-medical 5. Venue Östersund Arena Arenavägen 27 831 91 Oestersund http://ostersund.se/uppleva-och-gora/idrott-fritid-och-friluftsliv/idrottshallar/ostersund-arena.html +46 63 14 30 00 6. Mixed Doubles Curling Instead of playing in teams of four, mixed doubles curling is for teams of two players – one male and one female, and there is no alternate player: http://www.worldcurling.org/mixed-doubles- curling • The game is played on the same sheets of ice as ‘traditional’ curling. • Teams have only six stones each (instead of eight) and one of those stones, from each team, is prepositioned on the centre line before each end of play starts. • Player one delivers the first and last stones and player two plays the second, third and fourth stones. If they choose to, the two players may swap positions from one end to the next. • Sweeping can be done by both team members. • Each team receives 22 minutes of thinking time and games are scheduled for eight ends – compared to 38 minutes and ten ends for ‘traditional’ curling. • For more information on Mixed Doubles see Appendix I. www.worldcurling.org World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2018 – MEDIA GUIDE 7. Mixed Doubles Curling Championships The first World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held in Vierumaaki, Finland in 2008, where Swiss pair Toni Mueller and Irene Schori won gold. Mixed Doubles was accepted as an Olympic discipline in June 2015 and made its Olympic Winter Games debut at PyeongChang 2018, in the Republic of Korea. Canada’s Kaitlyn Lawes and John Morris were crowned Olympic champions and the new discipline was deemed a success. 8. Rules and System of Play The competition will be played under the World Curling Federation rules, as published in the Rules of Curling and the Rules of Competition Booklet (October 2017) http://worldcurling.org/rules-and-regulations-downloads The competition will be played in the following stages: 1) The 40 teams are in five groups, based on a World Curling Federation ranking established over the last three years. Each group plays a round robin. At the end of the round robin there will be a ranking for first (1st), second (2nd), third (3rd) and fourth (4th) position in each group. The top three teams in each group qualify directly for the 1/8 finals, as well as the fourth (4th) ranked team with the best DSC result. The overall ranking for the 16 teams that qualify for the play-offs will be determined as follows: • # 1 Ranking - best DSC of the 1st ranked teams • # 2 Ranking - 2nd best DSC of the 1st ranked teams • # 3 Ranking - 3rd best DSC of the 1st ranked teams • # 4 Ranking - 4th best DSC of the 1st ranked teams • # 5 Ranking - 5th best DSC of the 1st ranked teams • # 6 Ranking - best DSC of the 2nd ranked teams • # 7 Ranking - 2nd best DSC of the 2nd ranked teams • # 8 Ranking - 3rd best DSC of the 2nd ranked teams • # 9 Ranking - 4th best DSC of the 2nd ranked teams • #10 Ranking - 5th best DSC of the 2nd ranked teams • #11 Ranking - best DSC of the 3rd ranked teams • #12 Ranking - 2nd best DSC of the 3rd ranked teams • #13 Ranking - 3rd best DSC of the 3rd ranked teams • #14 Ranking - 4th best DSC of the 3rd ranked teams • #15 Ranking - 5th best DSC of the 3rd ranked teams • #16 Ranking - best DSC of the 4th ranked teams 2) Quarter-finals > Semi-finals > Finals 3) There will be additional play-off games to clearly determine the top 12 teams Games: All games are scheduled to be eight ends. Tied games will be decided by extra end(s). A minimum of six ends must be completed in all games. Game Timing: Each team will receive 22 minutes of thinking time for an eight-end game and three minutes of thinking time for each extra-end. www.worldcurling.org World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2018 – MEDIA GUIDE Team Ranking Procedure: Teams will be ranked at the conclusion of the round-robin stage in accordance with Rule C9. (a) During the round-robin portion of a competition, teams with the same win-loss record will be listed alphabetically by their three-letter code and ranked equal. (b) The following criteria (in order) will be used to rank the teams at the completion of the round robin: (i) Teams will be ranked according to their win/loss record; (ii) If two teams are tied, the team that won their round-robin game will be ranked higher; (iii) Where three or more teams are tied, the record of the games between the tied teams shall provide the ranking (should this procedure provide a ranking for some teams but not all, then the record of the games between the remaining teams that are still tied shall determine the ranking); (iv) For all remaining teams, whose ranking cannot be determined by (i) or (ii) or (iii), ranking is determined using the Draw Shot Challenge (DSC). Last Stone Draw (LSD) and placement of first end stone: For all round-robin games both players will deliver one stone each to the tee at the home end. The first stone must be delivered with a clockwise rotation, the second stone with a counter-clockwise rotation. Only the two players can be on the ice surface during the LSD. The two LSDs are added together and the team with the lesser LSD total distance will have the choice of the placement of the stones for the first end. If the LSD totals for both teams are the same, the individual LSD stones are compared and the best non-equal LSD has choice of stone placement. When both teams have the exact same individual LSD stone distances a coin toss will be used to determine that choice. Draw Shot Challenge (DSC): The DSC is the average of all the LSD stones which were played by a team during the round-robin (12 stones). The two least favourable results will be eliminated before calculating this average distance. Stones: The curling stones used at this championship are stones belonging to the WCF Set 5B. Colour of Stone: The team listed first in the draw will play the stones with the dark coloured handles; the team listed second will play the stones with the light-coloured handles. www.worldcurling.org World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2018 – MEDIA GUIDE 9. How teams qualified for WMDCC 2018 The World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship is an open entry event for the World Curling Federations 60 Member Associations. A total of 40 teams will compete in Oestersund. 10. Groups GROUP-A (black) GROUP-B (red) GROUP-C (blue) AUS - Australia BLR - Belarus EST - Estonia ITA - Italy CRO - Croatia FIN - Finland LAT - Latvia DEN - Denmark JPN - Japan LUX - Luxembourg ENG - England KAZ - Kazakhstan NED - Netherlands HUN - Hungary LTU - Lithuania SLO - Slovenia NOR - Norway NZL - New Zealand SUI - Switzerland ROU - Romania POL - Poland USA - United States TUR - Turkey RUS - Russia GROUP-D (yellow fill) GROUP-E (blue fill) CHN - China AUT - Austria ESP - Spain BRA - Brazil FRA - France CAN - Canada HKG - Hong Kong CZE - Czech Republic ISR - Israel GER - Germany SCO - Scotland GUY - Guyana SVK - Slovakia IRL - Ireland SWE - Sweden KOR - Korea www.worldcurling.org World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2018 – MEDIA GUIDE 11. Schedule of Play 1 09:00