Hi all! Well, here we go! We're all done! The Hearts is back, this time being played in Kamloops, B.C.! And is now complete. Scroll down for more info and to see how everyone did!
THE HEARTS TOURNAMENT FORMAT CONTINUES FROM LAST YEAR. Sounds like this year's Hearts is the same as last year! The old championship round has been replaced with a Page Playoff style Qualifier and Seeding round. So you will need your thinking caps on again! Everything is hopefully explained on the entry form! Or scroll down, see "How has the Hearts Changed?" and "Pool Format!" below!
PLAYOFF BONUS POINTS! Good time to remind everyone of this! In the playoffs, your Qualifier and Seeding match picks are interchangeable! So if you pick the two winners in either order, you get your full points! And 1/2 points for placing a team in either Qualifier or Seeding match. (But Qualifier picks score for Qualifier games only, and Seeding match picks score for Seeding match games only.) Your Page Playoff picks, however, are NOT interchangeable. You must place a team in their exact playoff for full or half points! But you still get 1/4 points for placing a team in the wrong playoff! And you must place a team in the exact Semifinal or Final match to get any points. And score full points for picking the winner, or half points just for placing a team in the correct match. There! I hope that's clear as mud! That's how you are being awarded points!
OK let's get at those Pool documents!
Official Final Pool Standings OK here we are! The tournament is done! Click to see how we all did! Results are now official!
Who Did We Pick to Win the Hearts? Who did all of us pick to win it all? Here it is, at a glance! FYI.
The Master Spreadsheet... This is the master sheet, it has everybody's picks, and you can do your own updates and projections! (300K Excel spreadsheet)
The Master Spreadsheet in Web Page Format! For quick, easy viewing. It doesn't look perfect but you can see how everyone's doing and who they picked. It's 360K bytes!
The ZIPPED Express All the pool docs in one compact zip file! Just the entry form docs right now. At 130K bytes it's your best download value!
The Pool Entry Form! (90K Excel document) Here it is! Deadline for entries is Friday, Feb. 17 at 8:00 P.M., the start of the first Round Robin draw! The usual Entry Form with drop-down everything almost! Download the form, make your picks, then save to your computer and email to me. Full of instructions and team ranking information!
Instructions for using the Excel Pool Entry Form
To fill out the interactive entry form below and send it to me, you MUST save your picks on your computer. Then email the file you saved to me as an attachment. That's the only way I will get your picks! Thanks!
The Pool Entry Form in Web Page Format! Not interactive, but all the info and links are there, and it's not Microsoft so anybody can use it. (size: 140K bytes)
Curling Pool Rules and Instructions (size: 35K bytes) - Here's where you'll find the rules for all curling pools! The master rules document. (Some updating required)
Visualizing The Page Playoff System This diagram shows how the Page Playoff system works, nice and simple! Created by k9crazy!
Curling Pools Rules and Help... in a Zip File! ... The above Rules and Help documents, in a 60K zip file. Grab em all!
How has the Hearts changed?
So the Hearts tournament is the same as last year. Before that there was a "play-in" game. What follows here is how the last two Hearts tournaments are different from the previous ones!
1. Instead of a Wild Card "Play-in" game, again there are 3 Wild Card teams, and they all play, and the Round Robin draw starts Friday Evening, Feb. 17, 2023. The play-in game sucked anyway! Go all the way there and play one game. Woop de doo!
2. There are 18 participating teams in two Pools of 9 teams, Pool A and Pool B. Again this is the same as previous formats.
3. Here's a difference. This year, as with last, only the top 3 teams in the standings in each Pool A and Pool B advance! Bottom 6 in each pool are OUT.
4. First playoff round is a "Page Qualifier" round. The 3rd place A team plays the 2nd place B team. And the 3rd place B team plays the 2nd place A team. Two games. Winners advance, losers are OUT.
4. Second playoff round is a "Page Seeding" round. One qualifier winner plays the first place A team, the other plays the first place B team. Winners advance to the final round, the 1-2 Page playoff; the losers advance too, but to the 3-4 Page playoff.
5. The "Page Playoff" round. The teams above play a standard Page Playoff. Winner of 1-2 goes straight to the final; loser meets the winner of the 3-4 playoff in the semifinal. Semifinal winner goes to the final; losers of semifinal and 3-4 playoff are OUT. And that's it!
POOL FORMAT! So our format continues from last year. It's more of a normal format, except the extra Qualifier and Seeding rounds. So again you will have to:
1. Pick the winners of the selected Round Robin games;
2. Pick the top 3 teams in each of Pool A and Pool B who you think will advance to the Playoff Round;
3. Put the 2nd and 3rd place teams from each Pool in the Page Qualifier games, and pick the winners;
4. Put the winners of the Qualifier games into the Page Seeding games, to play the 1st place teams from each Pool, and pick the winners;
5. Now put winners from the Seeding games into the Final Page Playoff, winners in the 1-2 playoff, and losers in the 3-4 playoff, and pick the winners;
6. Do the same with the Semifinal and Final games. And finally,
7. Apply rank points to ALL your selections (same as before). That's it!
POOL ENTRY FEE! Once again, since there's only 2 curling pools this spring, so we will continue with the new entry fee of $5.00. As suggested by some of you. The Hearts and Brier pools entry fees remain $5.00! Only heard good feedback about the new fees, so, they're here to stay!
NOTE! I won't actually see pretty much any of you in person. So we'll have to be creative about how to pay entry fees. Still due at the start of the pool! Give or take a day or two. E-transfer, snail mail, or a nice distanced outdoor visit! Oh yeah! Or of course if you have a pool credit, from previous winnings, you're covered!
TSN's Curling Home Page This event's info (if you scroll down a bit), plus!
Curling Canada's 2023 Tournament of Hearts Event Site You can find completed draw scores here!
2022-2023 CTRS TEAM RANKINGS See how all the Women's teams are ranked! This is where I got the rankings on the entry form. And what they used to seed the teams.
The Canadian Team Ranking System (CTRS) Explained Check it out. You do have to click a link on the left!
* Hey, listen to the song "Tournament Of Hearts" while you're making your picks! It might inspire you to win the pool! Official Weakerthans video from Epitaph Records.
* What the... who says yoga and curling don't mix? (Not responsible for the "related videos", don't look at them!!)
* Curling 8 Ender! From a game between Kelly Scott and Cathy King... ouch! (5 min. 19 seconds)
* Kaitlyn Lawes Quadruple Takeout! Very nice!!
* The Big Shot! Jennifer Jones's 2005 Shot of the Tournament
Really old TSN Reports from the distant past:
* Colleen Jones wins fourth straight Scott title!
* Larouche advances to Scott final!
That’s all I’ve got for now. You know, it's like... I can't feel my face when I'm with you. But I love it. What a problem to have!
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