orangeman

Well, the good news is that Team Jacobs was able to pretty easily handle every team except Scotland. The bad news is that they came up against Scotland in the semis. Not bad, all around. It'll be interesting to see which Brad will represent Canada in Italy next winter. Or will someone come out of nowhere to take the spot? Edit: "Nowhere" is a bit much, there's like 5 teams that could conceivably win the Canadian championships. But it seems like it's down to these two. Both Olympic champions already.

China tries to shake after throwing their first in the 8th end (score is 10-2) but the umpire won't let them go, must play the rest of the end. Both skips agree to throw the stones through, end it in a few minutes.

And Canada scores 5 in the 4th to go up 8-1! Jacobs tells the boys to get the beers on ice!

Would love to see China try something against Canada. Jacobs would lose his mind.

Unfortunate the way things worked out. Despite finishing 1st, Canada has to face the winner of Sweden/Scotland. But you have to beat the best to win anyway. Edit: And it'll be Scotland, the only team Canada lost to in the round robin.

Jacobs has secured a spot in the semis with another win (10-1). One more against the USA tonight.

Jacobs with a ridiculous shot to score three and win 8-2 against Austria. Clinches a 1 or 2 spot in the semi-final tomorrow with one game left. Canada has had lots of trouble at the last two Olympics, but watching Homan earlier and Jacobs this week reminds me of the good 'ol Canadian domination days. Not to jinx anything yet!

Edin is having a rough season.

Yes, but the reason the medals and quotas are distributed the way they are now is because it's very Eurocentric. The same is true in the SOG. Sports and events that Europeans are good at get more quotas and medals. There's been an effort in the SOG to even that out in the last few cycles, though. WOG are another beast, as it's Eurocentric to begin with (along with Canada, USA, China, SK, Japan and Australia to an extent).

Yeah, my point was that Norway, for example, can still send enough skiers to sweep the podium in each event, but Canada, for example, has to leave medal potentials in some freestyle events at home because of the cap. In other words, Norway's B team would still not medal because their A team already took all the medals, while some of Canada's A team is being left home and off the podium because of the cap. But, again, it's not that serious.

In defense of short track, it's so volatile that skaters should have more than one chance at a medal. In any event (pun intended), what I'm saying is a country that is strong in x-country can send enough skiers to win lots of medals, while countries strong in freestyle have a limit. And not limited as in only three in a race, but Canada has to leave strong competitors at home who can medal in event X because there is a limit to the overall amount. It's not really that serious, anway.

It's not so much the amount of events, it's really stretching out the same event so that the same people win multiple medals.

Who do they need to win against to advance?

It's kind of annoying that certain countries can win 20 medals in x-country with 5 different skiers, but countries with depth in freestyle don't get that opportunity. I'd rather watch multiple different freestyle events rather than another x-country race, but this time it's 1 km longer.

I actually watched this one live. Interesting game. Didn't seem close at first (probably because of the 3 for the Lotts in the 1st), but Power/Saunders kept chipping away.