Hi all! Yes, it's all done! This year the Hearts was in Calgary, Alberta! First a couple announcements, then our Pool Documents!
THE HEARTS TOURNAMENT FORMAT PRETTY MUCH CONTINUES FROM LAST YEAR. Sounds like this year's Hearts is the same as last year! Except the Page Playoff Qualifying. 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 Page Qualifier round picks are interchangeable! So IN EACH QUALIFIER ROUND, 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 Round Game. (Qualifier picks score for exact Qualifier games only, i.e. 1 vs 2 qualifier picks and 3 vs 4 qualifier picks are separate from each other.)
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 Standings Yes, we are done! And it's now official! Click to see how we all did!
The Master Spreadsheet... This is the master sheet, it has everybody's picks! You can do your own updates and projections! (350K 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. (400K bytes!)
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 ZIPPED Express All the pool docs in one compact zip file! At 150K bytes it's your best download value!
The Pool Entry Form! (80K Excel document) Here it is! Deadline for entries is Friday, Feb. 16 at 7:00 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: 150K 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 mostly the same as last year. Just one small difference! In the Page Qualifying rounds.
1. Same as last year: There are 18 participating teams in two Pools of 9 teams, Pool A and Pool B. Except, the extra teams are no longer called "Wild Card" teams.
2. Same as last year: Only the top 3 teams in the standings in each Pool A and Pool B advance! Bottom 6 in each pool are OUT.
3. NOW FOR THE DIFFERENCES: This year there are two "Page Qualifier" rounds. First the 1v2 Qualifier Round: The 1st place A team plays the 2nd place B team, and the 1st place B team plays the 2nd place A team. Two games. Winners advance to the 1v2 Page Playoff, losers drop to the second Page Qualifier.
4. Second is the 3v4 Qualifier Round: The 3rd place A team plays the loser of the first 1v2 qualifier, and the 3rd place B team plays the loser of the second 1v2 qualifier. The winners of these advance to the 3v4 Page Playoff; the losers are OUT!
5. Now back to the same as normal: The "Page Playoff" round. The 4 qualifying 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, pretty much unchanged. Except for the above noted differences. 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 1st and 2nd place teams from each Pool in the 1 vs 2 Page Qualifier games, and pick the winners; (that's A1 vs B2 and B1 vs A2);
4. Put the LOSERS of the 1v2 Qualifier games into the 3v4 Page Qualifier games, to play the 3rd place teams from each Pool, and pick the winners; (that's A3 vs loser of A1vB2, and B3 vs loser of B1vA2);
5. Now put winners from the all the Qualifying games into the Final Page Playoff, the 1v2 qualifier winners into the 1-2 playoff, and the winners of the 3v4 qualifier into 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!
ENTRY FEE DEADLINE. Fees are still due at the start of the pool! Give or take a day or two. You can pay in person, E-transfer, or snail mail. Unless you have a pool credit balance, from previous winnings, in which case you're covered!
Curling Canada's 2024 Tournament of Hearts Event Site You can find end-by-end draw scores here!
2023-2024 CTRS TEAM RANKINGS See how all the teams are ranked! This is where you get the rankings on the entry form. Plus a description of how they come up with it. Check it out!
Wikipedia's 2024 TOH Page They get the end of round robin standings pretty much bang on!
TSN's Curling Home Page This event's info (if you scroll down a bit), plus!
* 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! Or... something. What a problem to have!! Maybe I should write a song about it!!
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