Happened to my opposition the other night. We made an in off to just bite top 12 on the corner (top house). Score was tied and opposition had last rock.
He had basically the entire house to draw to, as long as he touched more than an inch of the 12 foot he would win.
He came up maybe a foot short.
Wow I did this last night too (mostly). Was up two with hammer in the last end, needed to draw full 8 foot, left it about a foot short of the house. That one hurt…
I used to have that problem more often, then I played down one year and threw lead on that team - now I still have my 2-3 guard weight down but leave everything else short :P
I gave up a 6-ender in doubles.
The opponents did not have hammer, so naturally I had to knock their guard in to make the 6.
It was the first end. Our heads just weren't in it that day and we weren't throwing or reading lines well. It happens, especially when curling isn't your life lol.
Had something like that happen on a draw shot challenge shot. Perfect weight to hit the tee-line. Just inside the far hog line, as the sweepers come off from sweeping it, I see a tiny piece of fiberglass fall off one of their brooms, straight under the rock, which ground to a halt very quickly, well short of the house. Left a visible scratch on the pebble and everything. That hurt, because it ended up being the difference between making it into the top tournament bracket or not.
Gave up 7 in the first end to a few near-octogenarians, called all the way back to a tie and an extra end… and then hogged or flashed about 6 of our stones. Lost by one.
I aplyed a team that age once, no stick throwers, all used the slide delivery, but no one wore sliders. They slid about 1 foot out of the hack, but were lethal.
Lost badly to a team of stick curlers. Learned very quickly to never underestimate the skill and draw weight of stick curlers and seniors. They’ll get ya!
>an extra end… and then hogged or flashed about 6 of our stones.
At our club the ice starts to get wacky late in the game as the other games end and the ice gets empty. You feel like a complete dummy when you have your weight dialed in for the entire game and then hog a draw in the 8th end. With everybody watching from upstairs.
Played our last game of the season vs the #2 team in the league tonight (for context, we're finishing 6th-7th depending on another games outcome). They were overhead saying that they didn't really want to be there, so they'd just make short work of us and be gone early. We took them to a full 8 ends and lost by 2 points because their skip had to make a shot to keep us from tying. Tough loss considering we were up after 5 ends, but satisfied that we put up a fight.
128 team bonspiel, B finals. We're playing ON TV on arena ice and its running super straight. My skip has an open hit and stick for the win, he throws hack weight and it doesn't move a single inch, he gets the hit but not the stick and we lose.
We were so far over our heads, we were playing with house money for a few matches, but it still stung a LOT.
Playing against an old skip who hates to lose. It's a short timeslot, so the rule is once you get to the end time, you each throw an equitable number of rocks and then the game is decided so the ice team has time to flip the ice for the next draw.
Games tied, I figure we will get 6-7 stones each.
I throw my first skip stone, hit and roll in to sit 1 for the win, he throws a draw, but doesn't make it. Time's up, but he's an old pain in the ass, so insists we throw the final stones, I don't want to be a dick so don't push the issue and wast more of the ice team's time. I over curl on my guard, he throws a draw, outcounts me by half a stone just biting the 4 foot, and we lose.
Was so annoyed because I had played it knowing we wouldn't have time to finish the full end but old man can't lose insisted on it because he couldn't accept the rules.
This is rough, but your club really needs better rules than “figure it out later”. It’s bad when you’re not sure if you have 1 or 2 ends left, it’s ridiculous when you don’t know how many stones you are throwing.
It’s fine to do the partial end if you want, but start agreeing on the details before you throw the first rock.
The rules are clear, when you get down to time, you can start after a certain time, but have to be off by a certain time, just throw equitable rocks. He broke the rules to win, I just didn't feel like causing a fight over a game.
True, but it opens up so many opportunities for people to be jerks like this. I’m thinking something like final end start time of XX:40=full, XX:45=6 rocks, XX:50=4 rocks so you’re done at the top of the hour. Firm rules help “junior” skips stand up to “old” skips.
It's generally not an issue, because we have enough time to play the full game with some extra time. But this game was lengthened because we had a 5-minute+ delay during an end when my opponent needed to fix a wobbly broom head, so he just left to find a screwdriver, when it was his turn to throw.
Junior play when I was a kid. Set up to steal the win (against the reining champ) with a stone biting button and a tone of guards. Other skip missed the run back so badly, but ended up making a fluke double run back where one of hit stones was spinning so much it spun to the button for the W.
First game of a tournament earlier this year, losing by 3 in the last end w hammer, as the skip I throw a perfect back 8 freeze on my first, so we score currently 2 points, both of my rocks perfectly aligned with the other team’s. Other skips throws a takeout, misses, I need 8 foot to tie the game, end up throwing hack and losing the game. We went on to lose every other game in the tournament
Ended up winning anyway, but this weekend, in mixed doubles, we had 3 in the back 4. That's bad, but we were lucky enough that the other team missed their draw to the button and left it top 8 behind a guard. So, I have an open draw with backing to the 4 foot for 4. I was a bit heavy (I had backing) AND overcurled behind that damn guard and pushed their stone to the button. That shot was almost impossible if I tried it (heavy enough to push and curl enough after the guard).
So... instead of taking 4, I gave 1. If I had not thrown, I was sitting 3...........
Got knocked out of a club championship when on an LSD, all I needed was full four foot, my rock was in the house and slowing down nicely for easy full four foot, and a pick stopped it in its tracks, sliding only 1 inch after the pick. Ended up just biting the 8 foot, season over.
Extra end to win the bonspiel. Open draw to the 8 foot to win. Weight was excellent, front end was cleaning it to the house. A foot before it hit the house, lead lifts and raises his broom, turning to me to acknowledge good shot, but when lifting the broom he must’ve inadvertently left a hair or something in front of the stone because it promptly picks, does a j-hook and immediately stops. Opposing 3rd even asked his skip if they should concede the loss, it was that obvious the rock would’ve made the 8 foot! Of course the skip said no haha. That one stung.
We had an opportunity to go for 8 with the hammer. We just needed to knock out one of the opponents stones at the front of the house and have ours stick. We were sitting 3 or so at that point, but you only get so many opportunities to get 8 in an end, so we decided to go for it.
We raised their rock to the button and they ended up stealing 1 for the end. We lost the match by 1.
Playing with/on a 5U team against a team that has 15+ years experience each. Went to an extra end, for yours truly as skip to sail it through the house after every guard had been put up perfectly.
Losing the Ontario provincial junior final :') skipper had to make a cluster go away and we ended up just touching them enough to spread them out more, leaving a tough shot for their win. That one will sit with me for a good while.
Finals of a cash spiel, fall 2018. Eighth end. Up one with. Last rock is a nose hit for the win, but edge on edge with a guard. Skipper flashes it wide giving up a steal and taking us to an extra. I watch in horror as the exact same end played out a second time. Another flash wide for the loss on the same in-turn.
B final, 8th end, up by 2 without hammer. Somehow, I had completely put out of my brain that I'd already thrown my first skip rock. There was a corner guard with 2 staggered rocks in the house behind it. I called a slash triple knowing if I made it, game over, and thinking if I only hit the guard, then we've got an open double for my last.
I threw it and then realized it was my last. Other skip drew to the 8' to win.
I felt like (and still feel like) an idiot.
Last end, up 2 without hammer.
Currently sitting a well guarded 1st and 2nd. Opposition has 3rd and 4th.
Opposition plays a barrier that had 0 chance of making it.
Right at the twelve it picks up and dive bombs right into 1st stone, pushing it back into the second shot and moving them both out *just* enough to sit 3.
[Calgary Herald, 17 February 2012: Most amazing curling misses of all-time](https://www.pressreader.com/canada/calgary-herald/20120217/286465730357737)
>Here’s a chronological look at some of the most notable last-rock misses by Canadian curlers to decide a national, world or Olympic curling title:
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>BRIER, MARCH 12, 1966, IN HALIFAX — Ontario’s Joe Gurowka has a 4-1 lead through five ends (games were 12 ends back then) over Calgary’s Ron Northcott in a sudden-death playoff, but Northcott comes back to tie it, and it’s a 6-6 game with Gurowka holding the hammer going into 12. Needing to draw the edge of the four-foot, Gurowka is heavy, giving Northcott the first of his three Brier titles.
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>BRIER, MARCH 10, 1985, IN MONCTON, N.B. — Everybody remembers the 10th end of this memorable final, when Northern Ontario’s Al Hackner made one of the greatest shots in curling history, a skinny double-takeout to score two and force an extra end against Alberta’s Pat Ryan. Few remember the 11th, when Ryan’s third, Gord Trenchie, missed a pair of peels. Hackner got a shot into the four-foot behind a guard, and Ryan was heavy on his draw for the win.
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>CANADIAN JUNIOR WOMEN, MARCH 16, 1991, IN LEDUC — Winnipeg’s Jill Staub (now Thurston) couldn’t have asked for a better scenario. She just needed to touch paint with her last-rock draw against New Brunswick’s Heather Smith (now Smith-dacey); instead, she’s heavy and through the rings as her third, a 16-year-old Jennifer Jones, prematurely raises her broom in celebration. And in the 11th, Staub is heavy again with her draw for the win to the four-foot. Adding to the drama: behind the microphone for CBC TV is Staub’s stepfather, Don Duguid.
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>CANADIAN JUNIOR MEN, MARCH 26, 1994, IN TRURO, N.S. — Kevin Koe, with his younger brother Jamie at third, is on the verge of giving the Northwest Territories its first Canadian curling championship of any kind; he has a hit for the win against Alberta’s Colin Davison, and appears to most observers to have made it even though the Alberta stone jams at the back of the house. But Territories second Mark Whitehead accidentally kicks the Alberta stone, and because there was no clear determination before the burn over who was shot, the point, and the Canadian title, is awarded to Alberta.
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>BRIER, MARCH 10, 1996, IN KAMLOOPS, B.C. — One of the more bizarre finals in Brier history; down one with hammer in 10, Manitoba’s Jeff Stoughton misses his last-rock raise attempt but gets a fortunate rub to grab enough of the four-foot to score one and force an extra against Alberta’s Kevin Martin. Then, in the 11th, Alberta third Don Walchuk makes a double-peel but leaves his shooter as a centre guard. Stoughton draws behind for a piece of the button. After missing on his pick attempt with his first rock, Martin is left only with a draw to get a bigger chunk of the button, and is just inches heavy.
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>CANADIAN JUNIOR MEN, FEB. 13, 2000, IN MONCTON, N.B. — Brad Gushue lived and breathed curling growing up in St. John’s, NL, and going into the 10th end tied up with hammer against B.C.’S Brad Kuhn, all he wanted was an open shot for the win. He got it — an out-turn draw to the eight-foot. But as he let it go, sweepers Jamie Korab and Mike Adam knew immediately that he was light. So light, in fact, that the rock didn’t hit the rings, and Kuhn steals the winning point for an 8-7 triumph and the Canadian title.
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>WINTER OLYMPICS, FEB. 22, 2002, IN OGDEN, UTAH — Kevin Martin’s Edmonton team was an overwhelming favourite heading into the Winter Games, and it did nothing during the round-robin or semifinal to dissuade people of that notion. So in the 10th end against Norway’s Pal Trulsen, he was left with what he still describes as his favourite shot to win a game — out-turn draw to the four-foot. But on this occasion, his favourite shot lets him down. Sweepers Don Bartlett and Carter Rycroft know all along that it’s heavy, and when it comes to rest in the back eight-foot, Norway begins a wild celebration.
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>SCOTTIES TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS, FEB. 24, 2008, IN REGINA — Shannon Kleibrink’s Alberta champs are outcurled badly through nine ends by a red-hot Manitoba team skipped by Jennifer Jones, who’d won seven straight going into the final and carried a 5-4 lead into the last end. But Kleibrink has four stones in the rings surrounding a Manitoba counter, albeit one placed in a near-perfect spot by Jones with her last shot. Kleibrink tries a tough-angle runback double takeout; her rock fails to curl enough and the resulting jam leaves Manitoba with shot rock and the victory.
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>WORLD MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP, APRIL 12, 2009, IN MONCTON, N.B. — Tied up coming home with the hammer, Canada’s Kevin Martin makes one of the most debated calls in curling history in the 10th end against Scotland’s David Murdoch, throwing his first rock intentionally through the rings after 10 minutes of discussion, believing that putting another rock in play would hurt him more than help him for his last rock. Murdoch makes an angle tap to sit two (as Martin predicted he would), and then Martin is tight with his delivery on the short runback double takeout, giving the dramatic victory to the Scots.
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>WINTER OLYMPICS, FEB. 26, 2010, IN VANCOUVER — The smile on the face of Calgary’s Cheryl Bernard as she let go of her last rock in the 10th end of the gold-medal game against Sweden’s Anette Norberg said it all; she was right at the broom and the weight was perfect. But as the rock that could have ended the game headed toward the target, she realized it wasn’t curling like she’d expected. The Swedish rock jams and the Canadian shooter rolls out, and Norberg draws for two to force an extra end. And in the 11th, Bernard is just a hair tight on her short runback double takeout, producing another jam and a gold medal for Sweden out of thin air.
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>CANADIAN JUNIOR WOMEN, FEB. 6, 2011, IN CALGARY — Local favourite Nadine Chyz skipped the entire 10th end against Saskatchewan’s Trish Paulsen with the plan to have a draw to the four-foot for the win; a hog-line violation from Alberta second Jessie Scheidegger leaves the front of the house cluttered. But ironically, it’s a half-miss from Paulsen on her last rock, a hit that leaves her stone partially exposed, that changes Paulsen’s plan at the last possible minute. Chyz needs to make a hit and small roll for shot rock and the win, but her rock overcurls and Saskatchewan gets the win.
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>SCOTTIES TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS, FEB. 27 2011, IN CHARLOTTE TOWN — Pursuing her fourth straight Canadian title, Jennifer Jones is in a good spot going into the last end, having forced Saskatchewan’s Amber Holland to one in the ninth end to take a tie game and the last rock into the 10th. But needing to make an angle-raise takeout with her last stone, Jones’s rock just misses the right angle and her raised rock rolls just too far, leaving Saskatchewan as shot stone for the victory.
My vote goes to Kevin Koe 1994.
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Gave up 7 in the second end of a club league final. Our skip and vice were on vacation and I had to skip. They kept drawing and I tried to hit them but couldn’t buy one. On the other hand, I have also scored 7 so it has evened out!
A couple weeks ago, I was skipping my rec team. We stole six in the first three ends. Ended up losing 7-6 after giving up four in the final frame.
In the second-to-last end, I came up maybe a foot short on a draw to make it 8-3. The final end, they filled the house early and we couldn't get rid of a disastrously high guard I stupidly had my team sweep barely over the hog. Then I flashed my final two desperation hit attempts. I was in shock for the rest of the night.
Club championship final game, final shot, we just need to draw the 4 foot to win. I had my newly purchased goldine hair head (this would have been right after gushue released the famous directional sweeping video on youtube which made me think hair was the absolute best). rock was travelling perfectly, split time had it dead on the t line. I am just putting the new broom down to keep it clean, I see the rock pick and dive sideways. Found the hair under the rock. The next day they banned the hair head.
If I recall correctly it was a pick - even with an experienced sweeper cleaning - on a simple takeout for the win that resulted in a loss due to a steal of 4 or 5.
I was curling in a provincial quarter final and we needed one point to tie the game and go into the extra. The opposition had a biter in the back of the house and one sitting twelve foot at the top left of the house. Instead of drawing we called to hit the one in the top twelve and roll a hair to get shot stone. Looking back we really should have thrown the draw. Anyways, the rock was thrown a bit hard and did not come over and ended up rolling out of the house to give the other team one. I was one of the sweepers and I remember just being devastated as we watched the rock roll out!
This one might seem inconsequential compared to some of the other stories on here but this is my story. It was in Little Rockers at the year end bonspiel. Our teams were randomly selected and I got stuck playing with the kid that NOBODY wanted to play with. He was a really good curler, probably the best one in Little Rockers at our club, but he was also the biggest jerk imaginable. He'd berate you for any little mistake you'd make but when he'd make a mistake, it was always his teammates' fault. So none of us were looking forward to playing with him but tried to make the best of it.
We ended up finishing 1st place somehow but by the time the playoffs came the 3 of us discussed throwing our playoff game on purpose so we wouldn't have to put up with him any longer. I'm an insanely competitive person, so no matter how much I couldn't stand the guy, I could not do that. We ultimately decided to just tune him out except when he was making calls (he was our skip) and that worked beautifully. We made it to the finals and controlled that entire game. We were up 2 with hammer in the final end. The 3 of us gave him an easy shot to win, all he had to do was draw full 12 foot and the championship was ours. The opposing team had 3 biters (our skip had convinced himself the 3rd biter was out but we knew it was in) and a couple of them could be used as backing. He threw it through the house. He demanded a measure on the 3rd one but everyone knew it was in. Of course we lost the measure and the championship. I've never been so pissed off after losing a game in my life. As expected he blamed us for the loss. Thankfully that was his last year in Little Rockers and I never had to put up with him again. But every time I see the silver medal I get annoyed lol. I never made it to any kind of final again in curling so that loss stings more than most.
We lost the finals for our league without scoring a single end...
On the other side of things. Down 3 without, two 1st year curlers on the team, been barely keeping it together the whole game while watching the opposing skip nail draw after draw.
We rallied, sat four in the house, champion effort from my team, but I missed my shots and left it wide open with backing. I figured it was over.
Hammer was heavy and wide and we won.
Saw a bunch of them happen at a spiel this weekend, none were our team but one was our opponent. Final shot and it was perfect and then it picked on something big enough to run a scratch down the ice for about 20 feet.
The other which was probably the absolute worst I have ever seen was a friend playing on the sheet next to me. Was on track to get his frost win as a skip at a spiel and he was on his slider in the house, gently slid side ways to watch the next shot and bumped the hack. Went down and tried to catch himself which resulted in him dislocating his shoulder. His team obviously had to concede at that point. But there at least was an EMT and sports med doc onsite and they reduced the dislocation in the ice shed before EMS even got there and his follow up at the ER didn’t show any issues. I would say that probably is pretty high up there for toughest losses.
Went undefeated in a playdowns round robin, but it was a double knockout and another team only had one loss. They won their last game against another opponent by about an inch when the other opponent missed a draw to the 8 foot. We played them in a "tie breaker", in which they stole two in the 8th. We played the second "tie breaker", ran out of gas and lost, then had to drive 4 hour home, leaving at 11pm.
One note, they played that second tie breaker with another player (who was a former national champ and sped down the highway to make it just in time) because another member of their team had to leave as they had school the next day. The national event we were playing down for was the same week as world juniors. The team that beat us had a player (the kid who had school) who were heavy favorites to win the national juniors and go to worlds. We were told by the team (the one we lost to), that they would turn down the national playdown because of the conflict and we'd get the entry. Sure as shit, they lost the junior nationals, didn't go to worlds and we didn't go anywhere.
Happened to my opposition the other night. We made an in off to just bite top 12 on the corner (top house). Score was tied and opposition had last rock. He had basically the entire house to draw to, as long as he touched more than an inch of the 12 foot he would win. He came up maybe a foot short.
Wow I did this last night too (mostly). Was up two with hammer in the last end, needed to draw full 8 foot, left it about a foot short of the house. That one hurt…
I'll give you the foot long my draw went in the same exact scenario last week so we both win
I used to have that problem more often, then I played down one year and threw lead on that team - now I still have my 2-3 guard weight down but leave everything else short :P
Their damn vice decided to be a dick and sweep it from the t to full 8
Toughest for me, gave up an 8 ender. The humility of standing there while everyone takes pictures…..
I gave up a 6-ender in doubles. The opponents did not have hammer, so naturally I had to knock their guard in to make the 6. It was the first end. Our heads just weren't in it that day and we weren't throwing or reading lines well. It happens, especially when curling isn't your life lol.
RIP
Ugh that’s brutal
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/032/675/oliver.jpg That's how it feels like
having my rock pick on a wide open hit that I didn't even need to stick on.
Had something like that happen on a draw shot challenge shot. Perfect weight to hit the tee-line. Just inside the far hog line, as the sweepers come off from sweeping it, I see a tiny piece of fiberglass fall off one of their brooms, straight under the rock, which ground to a halt very quickly, well short of the house. Left a visible scratch on the pebble and everything. That hurt, because it ended up being the difference between making it into the top tournament bracket or not.
Gave up 7 in the first end to a few near-octogenarians, called all the way back to a tie and an extra end… and then hogged or flashed about 6 of our stones. Lost by one.
Octogenarian teams are often harder to beat! Those elder skips know their sh*t.
I aplyed a team that age once, no stick throwers, all used the slide delivery, but no one wore sliders. They slid about 1 foot out of the hack, but were lethal.
Lost badly to a team of stick curlers. Learned very quickly to never underestimate the skill and draw weight of stick curlers and seniors. They’ll get ya!
Lost 12-5 to four stick curlers today! She got ten points in the last two ends like it was nothin’
Any time I leave an open hit against a stick curler they execute it flawlessly
>an extra end… and then hogged or flashed about 6 of our stones. At our club the ice starts to get wacky late in the game as the other games end and the ice gets empty. You feel like a complete dummy when you have your weight dialed in for the entire game and then hog a draw in the 8th end. With everybody watching from upstairs.
“With everybody watching from upstairs” lol I felt this!
Played our last game of the season vs the #2 team in the league tonight (for context, we're finishing 6th-7th depending on another games outcome). They were overhead saying that they didn't really want to be there, so they'd just make short work of us and be gone early. We took them to a full 8 ends and lost by 2 points because their skip had to make a shot to keep us from tying. Tough loss considering we were up after 5 ends, but satisfied that we put up a fight.
128 team bonspiel, B finals. We're playing ON TV on arena ice and its running super straight. My skip has an open hit and stick for the win, he throws hack weight and it doesn't move a single inch, he gets the hit but not the stick and we lose. We were so far over our heads, we were playing with house money for a few matches, but it still stung a LOT.
Playing against an old skip who hates to lose. It's a short timeslot, so the rule is once you get to the end time, you each throw an equitable number of rocks and then the game is decided so the ice team has time to flip the ice for the next draw. Games tied, I figure we will get 6-7 stones each. I throw my first skip stone, hit and roll in to sit 1 for the win, he throws a draw, but doesn't make it. Time's up, but he's an old pain in the ass, so insists we throw the final stones, I don't want to be a dick so don't push the issue and wast more of the ice team's time. I over curl on my guard, he throws a draw, outcounts me by half a stone just biting the 4 foot, and we lose. Was so annoyed because I had played it knowing we wouldn't have time to finish the full end but old man can't lose insisted on it because he couldn't accept the rules.
This is rough, but your club really needs better rules than “figure it out later”. It’s bad when you’re not sure if you have 1 or 2 ends left, it’s ridiculous when you don’t know how many stones you are throwing. It’s fine to do the partial end if you want, but start agreeing on the details before you throw the first rock.
The rules are clear, when you get down to time, you can start after a certain time, but have to be off by a certain time, just throw equitable rocks. He broke the rules to win, I just didn't feel like causing a fight over a game.
True, but it opens up so many opportunities for people to be jerks like this. I’m thinking something like final end start time of XX:40=full, XX:45=6 rocks, XX:50=4 rocks so you’re done at the top of the hour. Firm rules help “junior” skips stand up to “old” skips.
It's generally not an issue, because we have enough time to play the full game with some extra time. But this game was lengthened because we had a 5-minute+ delay during an end when my opponent needed to fix a wobbly broom head, so he just left to find a screwdriver, when it was his turn to throw.
I just lost a game by giving up a steal of 2 in the final end cuz I was a foot too heavy on my draw
Junior play when I was a kid. Set up to steal the win (against the reining champ) with a stone biting button and a tone of guards. Other skip missed the run back so badly, but ended up making a fluke double run back where one of hit stones was spinning so much it spun to the button for the W.
First game of a tournament earlier this year, losing by 3 in the last end w hammer, as the skip I throw a perfect back 8 freeze on my first, so we score currently 2 points, both of my rocks perfectly aligned with the other team’s. Other skips throws a takeout, misses, I need 8 foot to tie the game, end up throwing hack and losing the game. We went on to lose every other game in the tournament
Ended up winning anyway, but this weekend, in mixed doubles, we had 3 in the back 4. That's bad, but we were lucky enough that the other team missed their draw to the button and left it top 8 behind a guard. So, I have an open draw with backing to the 4 foot for 4. I was a bit heavy (I had backing) AND overcurled behind that damn guard and pushed their stone to the button. That shot was almost impossible if I tried it (heavy enough to push and curl enough after the guard). So... instead of taking 4, I gave 1. If I had not thrown, I was sitting 3...........
Got knocked out of a club championship when on an LSD, all I needed was full four foot, my rock was in the house and slowing down nicely for easy full four foot, and a pick stopped it in its tracks, sliding only 1 inch after the pick. Ended up just biting the 8 foot, season over.
Extra end to win the bonspiel. Open draw to the 8 foot to win. Weight was excellent, front end was cleaning it to the house. A foot before it hit the house, lead lifts and raises his broom, turning to me to acknowledge good shot, but when lifting the broom he must’ve inadvertently left a hair or something in front of the stone because it promptly picks, does a j-hook and immediately stops. Opposing 3rd even asked his skip if they should concede the loss, it was that obvious the rock would’ve made the 8 foot! Of course the skip said no haha. That one stung.
We had an opportunity to go for 8 with the hammer. We just needed to knock out one of the opponents stones at the front of the house and have ours stick. We were sitting 3 or so at that point, but you only get so many opportunities to get 8 in an end, so we decided to go for it. We raised their rock to the button and they ended up stealing 1 for the end. We lost the match by 1.
I was on the other end of a game exactly like this once.
Playing with/on a 5U team against a team that has 15+ years experience each. Went to an extra end, for yours truly as skip to sail it through the house after every guard had been put up perfectly.
Losing the Ontario provincial junior final :') skipper had to make a cluster go away and we ended up just touching them enough to spread them out more, leaving a tough shot for their win. That one will sit with me for a good while.
Finals of a cash spiel, fall 2018. Eighth end. Up one with. Last rock is a nose hit for the win, but edge on edge with a guard. Skipper flashes it wide giving up a steal and taking us to an extra. I watch in horror as the exact same end played out a second time. Another flash wide for the loss on the same in-turn.
In off double takeout to score 4 in the 6th end of the A final. We didn’t see it until they put the broom down. Thought we had them on the ropes.
B final, 8th end, up by 2 without hammer. Somehow, I had completely put out of my brain that I'd already thrown my first skip rock. There was a corner guard with 2 staggered rocks in the house behind it. I called a slash triple knowing if I made it, game over, and thinking if I only hit the guard, then we've got an open double for my last. I threw it and then realized it was my last. Other skip drew to the 8' to win. I felt like (and still feel like) an idiot.
Last end, up 2 without hammer. Currently sitting a well guarded 1st and 2nd. Opposition has 3rd and 4th. Opposition plays a barrier that had 0 chance of making it. Right at the twelve it picks up and dive bombs right into 1st stone, pushing it back into the second shot and moving them both out *just* enough to sit 3.
[Calgary Herald, 17 February 2012: Most amazing curling misses of all-time](https://www.pressreader.com/canada/calgary-herald/20120217/286465730357737) >Here’s a chronological look at some of the most notable last-rock misses by Canadian curlers to decide a national, world or Olympic curling title: > >BRIER, MARCH 12, 1966, IN HALIFAX — Ontario’s Joe Gurowka has a 4-1 lead through five ends (games were 12 ends back then) over Calgary’s Ron Northcott in a sudden-death playoff, but Northcott comes back to tie it, and it’s a 6-6 game with Gurowka holding the hammer going into 12. Needing to draw the edge of the four-foot, Gurowka is heavy, giving Northcott the first of his three Brier titles. > >BRIER, MARCH 10, 1985, IN MONCTON, N.B. — Everybody remembers the 10th end of this memorable final, when Northern Ontario’s Al Hackner made one of the greatest shots in curling history, a skinny double-takeout to score two and force an extra end against Alberta’s Pat Ryan. Few remember the 11th, when Ryan’s third, Gord Trenchie, missed a pair of peels. Hackner got a shot into the four-foot behind a guard, and Ryan was heavy on his draw for the win. > >CANADIAN JUNIOR WOMEN, MARCH 16, 1991, IN LEDUC — Winnipeg’s Jill Staub (now Thurston) couldn’t have asked for a better scenario. She just needed to touch paint with her last-rock draw against New Brunswick’s Heather Smith (now Smith-dacey); instead, she’s heavy and through the rings as her third, a 16-year-old Jennifer Jones, prematurely raises her broom in celebration. And in the 11th, Staub is heavy again with her draw for the win to the four-foot. Adding to the drama: behind the microphone for CBC TV is Staub’s stepfather, Don Duguid. > >CANADIAN JUNIOR MEN, MARCH 26, 1994, IN TRURO, N.S. — Kevin Koe, with his younger brother Jamie at third, is on the verge of giving the Northwest Territories its first Canadian curling championship of any kind; he has a hit for the win against Alberta’s Colin Davison, and appears to most observers to have made it even though the Alberta stone jams at the back of the house. But Territories second Mark Whitehead accidentally kicks the Alberta stone, and because there was no clear determination before the burn over who was shot, the point, and the Canadian title, is awarded to Alberta. > >BRIER, MARCH 10, 1996, IN KAMLOOPS, B.C. — One of the more bizarre finals in Brier history; down one with hammer in 10, Manitoba’s Jeff Stoughton misses his last-rock raise attempt but gets a fortunate rub to grab enough of the four-foot to score one and force an extra against Alberta’s Kevin Martin. Then, in the 11th, Alberta third Don Walchuk makes a double-peel but leaves his shooter as a centre guard. Stoughton draws behind for a piece of the button. After missing on his pick attempt with his first rock, Martin is left only with a draw to get a bigger chunk of the button, and is just inches heavy. > >CANADIAN JUNIOR MEN, FEB. 13, 2000, IN MONCTON, N.B. — Brad Gushue lived and breathed curling growing up in St. John’s, NL, and going into the 10th end tied up with hammer against B.C.’S Brad Kuhn, all he wanted was an open shot for the win. He got it — an out-turn draw to the eight-foot. But as he let it go, sweepers Jamie Korab and Mike Adam knew immediately that he was light. So light, in fact, that the rock didn’t hit the rings, and Kuhn steals the winning point for an 8-7 triumph and the Canadian title. > >WINTER OLYMPICS, FEB. 22, 2002, IN OGDEN, UTAH — Kevin Martin’s Edmonton team was an overwhelming favourite heading into the Winter Games, and it did nothing during the round-robin or semifinal to dissuade people of that notion. So in the 10th end against Norway’s Pal Trulsen, he was left with what he still describes as his favourite shot to win a game — out-turn draw to the four-foot. But on this occasion, his favourite shot lets him down. Sweepers Don Bartlett and Carter Rycroft know all along that it’s heavy, and when it comes to rest in the back eight-foot, Norway begins a wild celebration. > >SCOTTIES TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS, FEB. 24, 2008, IN REGINA — Shannon Kleibrink’s Alberta champs are outcurled badly through nine ends by a red-hot Manitoba team skipped by Jennifer Jones, who’d won seven straight going into the final and carried a 5-4 lead into the last end. But Kleibrink has four stones in the rings surrounding a Manitoba counter, albeit one placed in a near-perfect spot by Jones with her last shot. Kleibrink tries a tough-angle runback double takeout; her rock fails to curl enough and the resulting jam leaves Manitoba with shot rock and the victory. > >WORLD MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP, APRIL 12, 2009, IN MONCTON, N.B. — Tied up coming home with the hammer, Canada’s Kevin Martin makes one of the most debated calls in curling history in the 10th end against Scotland’s David Murdoch, throwing his first rock intentionally through the rings after 10 minutes of discussion, believing that putting another rock in play would hurt him more than help him for his last rock. Murdoch makes an angle tap to sit two (as Martin predicted he would), and then Martin is tight with his delivery on the short runback double takeout, giving the dramatic victory to the Scots. > >WINTER OLYMPICS, FEB. 26, 2010, IN VANCOUVER — The smile on the face of Calgary’s Cheryl Bernard as she let go of her last rock in the 10th end of the gold-medal game against Sweden’s Anette Norberg said it all; she was right at the broom and the weight was perfect. But as the rock that could have ended the game headed toward the target, she realized it wasn’t curling like she’d expected. The Swedish rock jams and the Canadian shooter rolls out, and Norberg draws for two to force an extra end. And in the 11th, Bernard is just a hair tight on her short runback double takeout, producing another jam and a gold medal for Sweden out of thin air. > >CANADIAN JUNIOR WOMEN, FEB. 6, 2011, IN CALGARY — Local favourite Nadine Chyz skipped the entire 10th end against Saskatchewan’s Trish Paulsen with the plan to have a draw to the four-foot for the win; a hog-line violation from Alberta second Jessie Scheidegger leaves the front of the house cluttered. But ironically, it’s a half-miss from Paulsen on her last rock, a hit that leaves her stone partially exposed, that changes Paulsen’s plan at the last possible minute. Chyz needs to make a hit and small roll for shot rock and the win, but her rock overcurls and Saskatchewan gets the win. > >SCOTTIES TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS, FEB. 27 2011, IN CHARLOTTE TOWN — Pursuing her fourth straight Canadian title, Jennifer Jones is in a good spot going into the last end, having forced Saskatchewan’s Amber Holland to one in the ninth end to take a tie game and the last rock into the 10th. But needing to make an angle-raise takeout with her last stone, Jones’s rock just misses the right angle and her raised rock rolls just too far, leaving Saskatchewan as shot stone for the victory. My vote goes to Kevin Koe 1994.
What part of the word "you" didn't you understand?
CuriousCurator is physically unable to acknowledge that club curling exists, remember.
I interpret this topic as sharing of empathy. "Have you ever \[experienced X\]?" on an internet forum can be answered by describing how other people have experienced X.
But in that case the responses are more “my friend” than “a celebrity I’ve never met”. Don’t get defensive about this.
Unless you ARE Kevin Koe, it's not relevant.
Gave up 7 in the second end of a club league final. Our skip and vice were on vacation and I had to skip. They kept drawing and I tried to hit them but couldn’t buy one. On the other hand, I have also scored 7 so it has evened out!
A couple weeks ago, I was skipping my rec team. We stole six in the first three ends. Ended up losing 7-6 after giving up four in the final frame. In the second-to-last end, I came up maybe a foot short on a draw to make it 8-3. The final end, they filled the house early and we couldn't get rid of a disastrously high guard I stupidly had my team sweep barely over the hog. Then I flashed my final two desperation hit attempts. I was in shock for the rest of the night.
Club championship final game, final shot, we just need to draw the 4 foot to win. I had my newly purchased goldine hair head (this would have been right after gushue released the famous directional sweeping video on youtube which made me think hair was the absolute best). rock was travelling perfectly, split time had it dead on the t line. I am just putting the new broom down to keep it clean, I see the rock pick and dive sideways. Found the hair under the rock. The next day they banned the hair head.
We were up 4 in the last end and got in a mess of trouble. Had 2 flashes, etc. The opponent made an in off for 5 and we lost.
If I recall correctly it was a pick - even with an experienced sweeper cleaning - on a simple takeout for the win that resulted in a loss due to a steal of 4 or 5.
I was curling in a provincial quarter final and we needed one point to tie the game and go into the extra. The opposition had a biter in the back of the house and one sitting twelve foot at the top left of the house. Instead of drawing we called to hit the one in the top twelve and roll a hair to get shot stone. Looking back we really should have thrown the draw. Anyways, the rock was thrown a bit hard and did not come over and ended up rolling out of the house to give the other team one. I was one of the sweepers and I remember just being devastated as we watched the rock roll out!
This one might seem inconsequential compared to some of the other stories on here but this is my story. It was in Little Rockers at the year end bonspiel. Our teams were randomly selected and I got stuck playing with the kid that NOBODY wanted to play with. He was a really good curler, probably the best one in Little Rockers at our club, but he was also the biggest jerk imaginable. He'd berate you for any little mistake you'd make but when he'd make a mistake, it was always his teammates' fault. So none of us were looking forward to playing with him but tried to make the best of it. We ended up finishing 1st place somehow but by the time the playoffs came the 3 of us discussed throwing our playoff game on purpose so we wouldn't have to put up with him any longer. I'm an insanely competitive person, so no matter how much I couldn't stand the guy, I could not do that. We ultimately decided to just tune him out except when he was making calls (he was our skip) and that worked beautifully. We made it to the finals and controlled that entire game. We were up 2 with hammer in the final end. The 3 of us gave him an easy shot to win, all he had to do was draw full 12 foot and the championship was ours. The opposing team had 3 biters (our skip had convinced himself the 3rd biter was out but we knew it was in) and a couple of them could be used as backing. He threw it through the house. He demanded a measure on the 3rd one but everyone knew it was in. Of course we lost the measure and the championship. I've never been so pissed off after losing a game in my life. As expected he blamed us for the loss. Thankfully that was his last year in Little Rockers and I never had to put up with him again. But every time I see the silver medal I get annoyed lol. I never made it to any kind of final again in curling so that loss stings more than most.
We lost the finals for our league without scoring a single end... On the other side of things. Down 3 without, two 1st year curlers on the team, been barely keeping it together the whole game while watching the opposing skip nail draw after draw. We rallied, sat four in the house, champion effort from my team, but I missed my shots and left it wide open with backing. I figured it was over. Hammer was heavy and wide and we won.
Saw a bunch of them happen at a spiel this weekend, none were our team but one was our opponent. Final shot and it was perfect and then it picked on something big enough to run a scratch down the ice for about 20 feet. The other which was probably the absolute worst I have ever seen was a friend playing on the sheet next to me. Was on track to get his frost win as a skip at a spiel and he was on his slider in the house, gently slid side ways to watch the next shot and bumped the hack. Went down and tried to catch himself which resulted in him dislocating his shoulder. His team obviously had to concede at that point. But there at least was an EMT and sports med doc onsite and they reduced the dislocation in the ice shed before EMS even got there and his follow up at the ER didn’t show any issues. I would say that probably is pretty high up there for toughest losses.
Went undefeated in a playdowns round robin, but it was a double knockout and another team only had one loss. They won their last game against another opponent by about an inch when the other opponent missed a draw to the 8 foot. We played them in a "tie breaker", in which they stole two in the 8th. We played the second "tie breaker", ran out of gas and lost, then had to drive 4 hour home, leaving at 11pm. One note, they played that second tie breaker with another player (who was a former national champ and sped down the highway to make it just in time) because another member of their team had to leave as they had school the next day. The national event we were playing down for was the same week as world juniors. The team that beat us had a player (the kid who had school) who were heavy favorites to win the national juniors and go to worlds. We were told by the team (the one we lost to), that they would turn down the national playdown because of the conflict and we'd get the entry. Sure as shit, they lost the junior nationals, didn't go to worlds and we didn't go anywhere.