I'm looking forward to having a night off from TV viewing this evening (although there are some events I want to watch). I really HATE sitting in front of the TV. (Which is odd because I have no problem sitting in front of a computer!)

A lot of my friends on FB are into curling. Can someone tell me why? I don't get it.

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I think most of its popularity started off as a joke. "Look, they're televising what appears to be the most boring televised sport one could possibly imagine, let's pretend to be excited by it." And that just kinda carried over, helped by the fact that if enough people watch any sport for long enough, some percentage of them will actually start to pay attention to it and get interested.

I personally like it. I like following the strategy. And it's amusing to listen to the Japanese women yell orders at each other in cute Japanese women voices.

The physics of curling is very interesting. The matches go on for a while though.

I like the strategy involved. I like that it's straight up competition with scoring rather than judged. I suppose it would be amusing if curling experts were judging the form of the sweepers, but I think that would detract.

I'm trying to understand curling but I'm not having much luck. Right now it's that thing on my TV before and after hockey.

Have I mentioned how much I hate the hockey commentators? They called the Ducks the Anaheim Mighty Ducks when they won the Stanley Cup. Um. No. They were the Anaheim Ducks. Get your facts straight. They also fvcked up our goalie's (for Switzerland) name.

It's very simple. At the end of each round, whichever team's rock is closer to the center of the target gets a point. If the next closest rock also belongs to that team, they get another point. And so on until there are no more rocks within the target area, or the next rock belongs to the other team.

So it's all about the strategy of positioning your rocks to prevent the other team from knocking yours away from the target and getting theirs closer.

The sweeping changes the speed and trajectory of the rock. Generally, sweeping in front of the rock makes it go a little faster and a little straighter.

Is this the right trajectory? :D

Thanks!