The 3rd Atlantian Oceanian Championship of Curling
18th — 28th March 2009, Pacitalia
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Point value Other tour Regional New point
after AOCC2 bonus revision value
1 Fidelia 28.67 0.00 0.62 29.29
2 Krytenia 17.46 2.00 1.07 20.53
3 Bazalonia 17.29 2.00 0.03 19.32
4 Sarzonia 10.67 4.00 2.01 16.68
5 Demot 8.81 2.00 0.58 11.39
6 Nojika 8.42 0.00 1.13 9.55
7 Septentrionia 3.75 0.00 0.37 4.12
8 Novus Prosperitas 3.75 0.00 0.35 4.10
New nations 3.75
New puppets 1.96
Outside tournament top 3 finish 2.00
Outside tournament participation 1.00 |
With eight rinks, all eight will be placed in a single pool and will play each other once during the round-robin for a total of at least seven (7) draws per rink. There will be one draw per day from the 18th to the 24th. At the conclusion of the round-robin there will be one day off; following that break day, the Page playoff will commence.
Tournament structure
(Your rank for the tournament corresponds to your number here.)
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Draw 1 2v1 3v8 4v7 5v6
Draw 2 3v4 1v7 8v6 2v5
Draw 3 6v2 7v8 4v1 5v3
Draw 4 7v5 8v4 2v3 6v1
Draw 5 1v3 4v2 5v8 6v7
Draw 6 4v5 8v1 2v7 3v6
Draw 7 7v3 8v2 1v5 6v4 |
Page playoff structure
(Ranks below correspond to the rinks' placing after the round-robin stage, not their rank for the tournament.)
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Semi-final 1v2 3v4
Half-final (Loser 1v2)v(Winner 3v4)
Final (Winner 1v2)v(Winner Half-Final) |
Roster posting procedure
Please list your skip (team captain) in bold, either with or without vital statistics. Following that you should list a lead, second, third and an alternate. The alternates only participate in the event one of the main foursome cannot play in a draw. You should also list their home curling club and in which city, town, etc. that club is located.
Extra resources
The Wikipedia article on curling is actually quite well done and informative. I recommend it for a basic knowledge of curling. You can also refer to past AOCC RP threads if you are unsure on the stylistic / diction aspects of writing a curling draw report.
Mathematical aspects
Formula that will be used
=(Point value/1)1.16 + RP Bonus + Average of your playing style
Playing styles
** Take-out - that being your strategy is simply to knock the opponent's rocks with no care for how your rocks are thrown or placed. Result: Closer score
** Neutral - normal curling. Placing rocks in strategic points but also using rocks just to take out an opponent's, regardless of whether it sticks on the house. Result: Average 2 to 3 point win or loss
** Strategic - defensive play, and purely playing strategically, using rocks only to score and not to "attack" as in the take-out style. Result: Average 2 to 5 point win or loss
Each team will get "points" to spend. You can divide your points -- in this tournament everyone will get six -- among the three playing styles. If you want a fully attacking style for your team, you would choose 4-2-0 (Take-Out/Neutral/Strategic), 5-1-0 or 6-0-0. If you want a balanced attack, you would choose 3-3-0, 3-2-1 or 2-2-2. A more defensive style of play would use a 0-2-4 to 0-0-6 point distribution. Then, your point distribution will be averaged and placed in the scorination formula.
RP bonus
** Good RP - 5 points
** Average RP - 3 points
** Not so good RP - 1 point
** No RP - 0 points
I will also be giving bonus if you RP. A good RP constitutes not just length (though that is a sign of effort in most cases) but also effective writing. A poor RP is something like "The Losers lost today 3-0. Big surprise. Next game is versus the Winners on Thursday." You'll get the point, but you definitely won't get five.
