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Originally Posted by Mightyfire89
If anyone can answer this I would appreciate it. I’m not a big curling fan. I’m watching Canada v Japan. It seemed to me that Homan had a chance for a point in the 3rd end but chose to take the japan stone out while also sending her own out of play for a “blank”.
Why not take the point?
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When you have last rock, you want to try to score at least two points, The team that scores in a curling end gives up the advantage of last rock, thus the strategy in blanking an end is retaining last rock in the hopes of scoring multiple points in a future end.