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Originally Posted by Matty81
The other teams getting worked up about this are the epitome of poor sportsmanship a finger touch on a rock that far up the ice has no advantage at all. Its sour grapes and trying to win on a technicality. its extra cheesy when most of these countries dont even curl and send their players to Canada to live abd train and leetch off our curling culture That said canada should know better.
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I'm conflicted; I've only seen footage of one smoking gun fault (and even then it's not necessarily 100% conclusive), but it sure sounds like it's not an isolated event. I can't see how it's very consequential, but if it's inconsequential then just don't do it.
It's a ridiculous thing to be self policed though...I'm sure these guys know when they're borderline on it, but it would be hard to be certain like if you touch a rock while brushing (which apparently Canada has called themselves on at leasts once so far).
Major comps should have a judge and cameras at the hog line and a review process. Or just cameras and the competitors can call a challenge if they want (but consequence for being wrong is they lose their next rock). Seems like it might be a tough thing to rule conclusively though, even if you had a camera on each side and overhead