At the 1999 World Curling Federation’s annual general meeting in Saint John, N.B., then-president Gunther Hummelt begged member federations to vote in eight-end games. World championship and Olympic curling, and by extension Canada’s national championships, remain 10-end games two decades later. Chelsea Carey’s Calgary foursome is playing 10-enders at the women’s world championship in Denmark this week. “Now that we have the Curling World Cup series, which features eight ends, the World Curling Federation has a platform to gauge the benefits of eight end games. The field for the national senior curling championship opening Friday in Chilliwack, B.C., reads like a Who’s Who of Canadian curling.

Source: thestar March 19, 2019 21:45 UTC