31-03-2022, 00:11
The World Championship series moves to the south from 2nd to 10th April in the Orleans Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada. An ice rink in the desert seems pretty far-fetched, but Las Vegas has Venetian gondolas and Egyptian sphinxes, so I suppose anything is possible.
The 13 participating teams are Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland and United States. Scotland are represented by skip Kyle Waddell, vice-skip Ross Paterson (who plays last stones) along with Duncan Menzies (2nd) and Craig Waddell (lead). This is a fairly new team with only Ross Paterson having experience at World Championship level, but he has won Bronze as alternate for Bruce Mouat's team in 2018, also in Las Vegas.
I should add that there was a bit of a "hoo-ha" regarding the selection for these Championships, but Paterson's team are the National Champions and there was no requirement to hold a play-off with the Olympic team, as was done in 2018. No doubt changes will be made to the selection process in the future, but we are where we are.
Scotland start their campaign at 3am (UK time) against Italy on Sunday followed by Korea at 5pm, also on Sunday. Now these are my interpretation of the times but I think I've added on the time difference correctly.
Looking further ahead, the teams ranked first and second after the round-robin will proceed directly to the Semi-finals while, for teams ranked third to sixth, qualification games will take place on Saturday 9 April. The qualification games will see the third-ranked team play the sixth-ranked team and the fourth-ranked face the fifth-ranked team, with the winners progressing to the Semi-finals, which will follow in the evening — the team ranked first will play the winner of 3v6 game and the team ranked second will play the winner of 4v5 game. The Bronze Medal game and then the Gold Medal final will be staged on Sunday 10th.
The 13 participating teams are Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland and United States. Scotland are represented by skip Kyle Waddell, vice-skip Ross Paterson (who plays last stones) along with Duncan Menzies (2nd) and Craig Waddell (lead). This is a fairly new team with only Ross Paterson having experience at World Championship level, but he has won Bronze as alternate for Bruce Mouat's team in 2018, also in Las Vegas.
I should add that there was a bit of a "hoo-ha" regarding the selection for these Championships, but Paterson's team are the National Champions and there was no requirement to hold a play-off with the Olympic team, as was done in 2018. No doubt changes will be made to the selection process in the future, but we are where we are.
Scotland start their campaign at 3am (UK time) against Italy on Sunday followed by Korea at 5pm, also on Sunday. Now these are my interpretation of the times but I think I've added on the time difference correctly.
Looking further ahead, the teams ranked first and second after the round-robin will proceed directly to the Semi-finals while, for teams ranked third to sixth, qualification games will take place on Saturday 9 April. The qualification games will see the third-ranked team play the sixth-ranked team and the fourth-ranked face the fifth-ranked team, with the winners progressing to the Semi-finals, which will follow in the evening — the team ranked first will play the winner of 3v6 game and the team ranked second will play the winner of 4v5 game. The Bronze Medal game and then the Gold Medal final will be staged on Sunday 10th.
Cabbage is still good for you