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Vic is awful. He's absolutely terrible. I say this as a guy who has curled for most of my life, play on tour, and have won a provincial title.


Let's go to the 10th end of the Scotties final. Alberta is shot and Homan is drawing to get a small piece of the four foot for the win. There are two rocks, one of each colour at the back of the house, both just better than full eight. Homan's rock comes up a shade light and doesn't hit the four foot. Alberta steals a point and they move on to the 11th. Vic starts ranting about how it's definitely one, and maybe a steal of two. The rocks are kicked off because Ontario has second shot over Alberta by about 2 feet. Vic then asks why they didn't put a measuring stick on it, and he would have done it immediately. Alberta was shot over Homan's last rock by an inch. Vic completely missed the last rock in the 10th end in the Scotties final. That's inexcusable. He's horrawul.



In the Manitoba vs. Northern Ontario game Fleury tried a peel with her inturn going away from the centre line in the 5th end. She set it back a bit and it didn't curl, flashed the rock in the house, and McCarville stole a point. Fleury had MacCuish sweeping to try and carve it back to the rock, but it didn't work. While this was going on Vic was saying how Fleury was getting caught as the rock was curling too much and all week it curls even with up weight. He had no idea Fleury missed it wide. He thought it curled 5 feet from the other side. And it didn't curl all week with up weight. Curlers were taking negative ice all week because it didn't curl. He had absolutely no idea what he was talking about.


The commercial where he mansplains the game to Doug is ironic. Vic is basically Doug.


These are just two examples. He's wrong all the time. Russ and Cheryl and too busy saying the word 'brilliant' after every shot to notice. Part of his job is to get the conversation going with the other two, and he has to play dumb for that, but when he's giving analysis and calling, he has to be better. The game would be much better off without him. He's basically the Cassie Campbell of curling.



All that said, what a great Scotties final. Carey's team was super gutsy to come back after playing terribly against a team that doesn't give up leads. I'm ridiculously happy for Pooks and Fergie. That team battled all game, even when it wasn't going their way. I hope they kill it at the world's.