The Season of Champions is in full swing withe the first ever Montana's Brier set to kick off on Friday. We talk about the format, the storylines, and all 18 teams heading to Regina before making our picks for who will stand tall at the end of the week.
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The Pointsbet single elimination event is back and so are we with our second annual Billion Dollar Challenge!! We go through the complete fields for this week and fill out our bracket live as we go. Be sure to let us know how your brackets stack up!
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The Brier playoffs are set and we're here to talk about what we've seen so far and the playoffs coming up this weekend in London. We talk about Thursday morning's game between Quebec and Wild Card 1, the dominance of the top 4 teams, and how things are stacking up heading into the weekend. We then chat about some of the other stories of the week before talking about our new Merch store and what is now available.
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We're back to preview the 2023 Tim Hortons Brier! We talk about all 18 teams in the field in London, ON, including the favourites, the young teams trying to establish themselves, and some of the new and returning faces. We also make our picks for the week and announce the winner of our Ailsa Craig print. If you didn't win, have no fear, we're doing another giveaway for the Brier!
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In this episode, Sean and Scott talk about what was a fun weekend at the first Grand Slam of the season in North Bay. They discuss some of their big takeaways from the week (2:40) before getting into a couple rather curious strategies decisions from the playoffs. They debate Niklas Edin's decision in the semi-final against Matt Dunstone (7:10) and the pros and cons of being down 2 with hammer compared to tied without coming home. They also go back and forth about Kerri Einarson's decision in the fourth end of the final against Silvana Tirinzoni and the benefits of sitting 4 heading into skip's rocks (16:50). They finish by again asking for improvements to the Grand Slam website (25:00) before commenting on the on going situation with USA Curling (30:35).
You can check out Rocks Across the Pond's episode on USA curling here.
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In this episode, Sean and Scott go through the men's and women's fields for this week's Boost National in North Bay, ON. They give their odds for each team's chance at emerging victorious and get some clarification on the schedule live on the pod.
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In this episode, Sean and Scott look back at the Pointsbet Invitational. They talk about wins for Reid Carruthers and Jennifer Jones as well as which teams stood out, the new timing rules, and what was up with the teevee schedule. They also debate the draw the button at the end of tied games, the state of the extra ends, and how to make end of game scenarios more exciting. They then move on to the shooting percentages for the week and ask whether they may be inflated and why that could be happening. They wrap up by talking about the uSports championship and who will represent Canada at the World University Games in January.
Our Fall Training episode is available here: Spring (umm...Autumn?) Training
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In this episode, Sean and Scott go through their bracket for this week's PointsBet Invitation in Fredericton. They go through both the men's and women's brackets as they build towards their winner picks. If you want to compete against the guys and the chance for $1 million if you get a perfect bracket, head over to sweep16.ca
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In this episode, Sean and Scott talk about how teams have set their schedules for the 2022-23 curling season. They start by looking at the recent changes announced by the World Curling Federation to the world rankings system and some of the player reaction. That's followed by going through the season schedules for 6 Canadian teams to see how they have set themselves up for the Season of Champions. They start with Team Homan and then move on to Team Koe, Team Lawes, Team Carruthers, Team Galusha, and Team Gauthier.
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This week, Sean and Scott go through some of the biggest new teams announced during curling's free agent frenzy. They go through 10 women's and 10 men's teams and give their words to describe each of the new lineups. They also talk about how they think the teams will stack up next year and how some of the most competitive provinces will look as we enter the new Olympic quad.
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Sean is back as he fights through illness to join Scott in discussing Tuesday's results from the Brier. It's moving day as the top teams separate themselves and the rest of the field fights for the last spots in the Championship Pool. Interviews from Rick Lang and Reid Carruthers.