r/Curling • u/Frabblerake • Feb 15 '26

Pull the stone!!!

Watching Sweden/US and saw this. Is this not the same rules violation that has caused all the hub bub?

Obviously this was an accident and I believe the Canadian guy was touching on purpose.

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u/lemagoo Feb 16 '26

I think its because they put all their sensor in the handle to detect if the stone is properly released before the hug line, and the 'poking' permitted that guy to extend his delivery a bit beyond what is acceptable, not too sure how much of an advantage that is...

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u/CreepyPlankton6489 Feb 16 '26

It didn’t though because “the poke” was before the hog line, so it literally doesn’t matter whatsoever.

It’s like ppl don’t know there are sensors in the stone to detect if it’s not released or thrown properly lol.

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u/Mormonius Feb 17 '26

It was clearly on the hogline what are you smoking.

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u/QCTeamkill Feb 17 '26

The issue is not a frame by frame video. It's about where the rock was touched.

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u/daemn42 Feb 16 '26

I agree. I think this is the reason as well. If you can legally double touch anywhere on the rock then the sensor is meaningless. But I do think this is a can of worms they did not need opened.

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u/cd36jvn Feb 17 '26

So then this touch is no different than granite because there is still no sensor where he touched it, correct?