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Scotland depart the competition with just 3 wins to show for their 12-game run. Admittedly their first defeat today was against runaway leaders Switzerland by only 6-7 and the loss of 3 shots in the 4th end made life difficult. Having said that they took the Swiss team all the way and were lying shot and game, forcing Alina Paetz to play her last stone to perfection. Perhaps more disappointingly, Scotland also lost against Turkiye by 7-10. Although always behind, they were lying shot to try to force an extra end, but on this occasion the Turkish skip played an excellent take-out to get the win.

Of Scotland's 9 defeats, 4 were by 1 shot, 2 by 2 shots and 3 by 3 shots. On another day at least 4 of these losses might have turned out to be wins. Immensely frustrating!

In the final reckoning, Switzerland sailed through the round-robin with 12 wins, well ahead of Norway on 8 wins and Canada, Italy, Sweden and Japan, each on 7 wins. At 10am tomorrow Canada play Japan and Italy play Sweden in the Qualification Games with the winners going on to play Norway and Switzerland respectively in the Semi-finals at 4pm.