[ritchiebaby]

It was a great day for England who won both of their games to finish 5th in their Group. Firstly they beat New Zealand 4-3 in the last end and then disposed of Turkiye (correct spelling, apparently) by 7-5 after being 3-5 down with 2 ends to play.

Wales were easily brushed aside 2-12 after only 6 ends in their final game to end up in 6th place in Group E.

At noon Ireland lost to Poland by 5-7 to dent their hopes of qualifying, but Australia also lost, by 1-7 against Sweden, leaving the Irish in 4th place.

Amazingly, the Australian loss helped Scotland because the Aussies had a much better Draw Shot Challenge, but only finished 5th. The Scots took full advantage to breeze past Brazil 12-3 after 6 ends to consolidate their 4th place, with their Draw Shot Challenge ranking making them the 16th Qualifier.

Tomorrow's games in the Last 16 are-
at 9am - Sweden v Scotland, Poland v Czechia, United States v New Zealand, Switzerland v Ukraine.
at 1pm - Norway v Slovenia, Spain v Italy, Japan v Kazakhstan, Canada v Netherlands.

There needs to be a big step-up in performance from the Scots for them to progress to the Quarter-finals at 7pm, but you just never know.