Winter Olympics 2010

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

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.

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.