Women's Curling WCF World Championship 2019

[dcro 10,210]

End 1: Canada misses a wide open shot for two.

 

Here we go again.

[Kirkpatrick 144]

I think I might be too good for current Canada. What a miss just now, and from +2 to -1 (pending measuring).

EDTI: A bit of luck for them, 1-0 Canada after first end. But should've been, must've been, 2-0.

Edited March 20, 2019 by Kirkpatrick

[Vojthas 949]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

Latvia has a 15-year old player.

As far as I remember Stella Heiß was 16 when she won the European Champion title with Andrea Schöpp team in 2009.

[dcro 10,210]

Finland is leading Korea 7:3

[dcro 10,210]

It still fascinates me how two of the prominent curling commentators have almost the same voice. It becomes particularly weird when they do a game together.

[Kirkpatrick 144]

Very little proper tactical planning from the girls today, especially Russian and Chinese. They are leaving some buffling stones there.

[Kirkpatrick 144]

USA just scored six on Scotland.

 

Surely that happened quite a few times, it's just that I personally haven't seen that live. 5 at most.

[Kirkpatrick 144]

Rank		Team		Games	Wins	Losses
1		SWE - Sweden		11	10	1	Q
2		KOR - Korea		11	8	3	Q
2		RUS - Russia		11	8	3	Q
4		SUI - Switzerland		10	7	3
5		CHN - China		11	7	4
6		USA - United States		11	6	5
7		JPN - Japan		10	5	5
8		CAN - Canada		11	5	6
9		GER - Germany		10	4	6
10		SCO - Scotland		11	4	7
11		DEN - Denmark		11	3	8
12		FIN - Finland		11	2	9
13		LAT - Latvia		11	1	10

 

Canada - Germany 8-5
USA - Japan 5-9
Germany - Japan 10-7
Japan - Canada 7-5
Germany - USA 10-7
USA - Canada 13-6

 

Germany 2-1 (25-22) vs Fin, vs Sui
Japan 2-1 (23-20) vs Chn, vs Swe
USA 1-2 (25-25) vs Sui
Canada 1-2 (19-25) vs Den

[Kirkpatrick 144]

USA can remove any tension if they win against Switzerland in afternoon's session. Japan has two tough matches, and Canada on paper has an easy match to get to 6-6.

 

Will be interesting in any case. I don't have a particular favourite I'd wish to join top 5 in the next round...maybe just not Canada. They won a lot in previous Championships.

[Kirkpatrick 144]

Japan 6-5
USA 6-6
Canada 5-6

 

USA - Japan 5-9
Japan - Canada 7-5
USA - Canada 13-6

 

Japan 2-0 (16-10) vs Swe
USA 1-1 (18-15) no matches left
Canada 0-2 (11-20) vs Den

 

If I'm not mistaken, that's it, Japan goes into next round no matter the results in the final draw.

 

For second place: 

 

Russia 9-3

Korea 8-3

Switzerland 8-3

 

Russia - Switzerland 11-5
Russia - Korea 6-7
Korea - Switzerland 6-5

 

Korea 2-0
Russia 1-1
Switzerland 0-2

 

Second place goes straight to semi-finals, so, maybe not a bad idea to fight for it. Well, just Korea, Swiss have no chance.