Burned Stone?


In the movie it is said that 10 years ago Cutter (Paul Gross) burned the stone in the Golden Broom, well, if Cutter was the skip back then, how did he burn it? Skips do not sweep. Also during the scene where Lennox burns the stone why did he not call it? I was under the impression that the person who burns the stone is the one who calls it. Why was it left up to Cutter, the skip, to call it?

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Also what I don't understand is at the begining of the Golden Broom Cutter and Yount flip the coin. Both Yount and Cutter are skips and only leads flip the coin. Also why did Yount take red, when everyone knows that if you win the coin toss you take hammer. These are huge mistakes for a curling movie that was made in Canada where curling is the national sport.

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Actually, It really doesn't matter who flips the coin, just that the skip calls hammer or rock color. It tends to be the vice flipping the coin at our club.

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Curling is NOT the national sport of Canada...Lacrosse is....well, the national summer sport....ice hockey is the national winter sport

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Wrong.

Lacrosse is the Native Indian national Canadian game.

Curling is the white national Canadian game.

Hockey is far too Americanised to be considered Canadian. Anyone saying contrary to curling not being the national sport is an idiot.

Curling for the win! Hockey is for losers...

Right. OK. Who fckd with IMDb now? WOW!

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You asked about 1) how does a skip burn a stone, and 2)why did Yount call red on the coin flip?

1) The most likely way, although less likely to influence the game, is touching/being touched by a stone that has already been struck by another stone. More likely to affect the game is when he "pitches in" to help sweeping, such as Lennox does while he's "holding the broom" for his skip in the first game against Yount.
Cutter being asked to call the burned rock is a bit of a dramatic device, except that it's strongly hinted that the offending player didn't feel the stone touch their foot (it could happen), so the stone wasn't immediately taken out of play.

2) Yount is being rude and arrogant ( in that order). First, when Cutter greets him with "good curling" Yount replies "whatever". That's just not done.
Secondly, the winner of the toss can select either hammer or rock color. Virtually everyone calls hammer, but Yount is so arrogant, he forgoes hammer and chooses a rock color instead.

(In serious bonspiels and national/international play, the thirds do the coin flip. In local club play, yeah, the leads usually do it)

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Skips sometimes come and help sweep just before the rock is about to hit the hogline. that is how he could have burned the rock.

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Skips come to help sweep the rock if it was thrown light to begin with. Every person helping makes the difference. Also, it's normally the thrids that flip the coin and call it, but in every area it's done differenly.

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Skips will sweep often.

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I'm no curler, nor Canadian (although I'm married to one), but in the Men's Bronze match between China and Sweden in the recently concluded Olympics in Sochi, a stone was burned by the shooter, not once but twice (and one of them was the skip), by not releasing it before the hog line (I don't even know if it's called the "hog line" on both ends of the sheet, but the red line in front of the hack, in any event). They have fancy shmancy electronic devices that fire up LEDs in the handle of the rock, so it was immediately apparent.

All the commenters remarked on how rare it was for the shooter to burn a stone at the Olympic level of competition, but particularly in a medal match.

As an aside, one of the commenters happened to mention the Ferby Four, and thanks to my exposure to curling from Corner Gas, I knew exactly who he was talking about. Not bad for an American, eh?

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