Italy, who had an early 4-1 record, lost six consecutive games to finish in 9th place after relegation tie-breaks. The will join 10th place Switzerland in the next Worlds Qualifying Tournament in 2011.
The World Curling Federation changed the rules governing how it chooses which of the bottom two teams would be forced to re-qualify for the next Championship in the event that teams with equal won/loss records faced the drop.
Last year ties at the bottom of the table were decided on a single draw to the button before the tournament began. Japan was relegated by a fraction on an otherwise meaningless stone. This year there are three levels of tie-break built into the schedule, and they were needed when five teams finished with 4-5 records, tied for 5th and also tied for the dreaded 9th place.
Line scores are at the bottom of this post. The losing team from each game continued to play. It's all backwards.
Tie-breaker 1 - Thursday 26th 8PM - Scotland beat Norway 10-3 . Norway play on.
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
The World Curling Federation changed the rules governing how it chooses which of the bottom two teams would be forced to re-qualify for the next Championship in the event that teams with equal won/loss records faced the drop.
Last year ties at the bottom of the table were decided on a single draw to the button before the tournament began. Japan was relegated by a fraction on an otherwise meaningless stone. This year there are three levels of tie-break built into the schedule, and they were needed when five teams finished with 4-5 records, tied for 5th and also tied for the dreaded 9th place.
Line scores are at the bottom of this post. The losing team from each game continued to play. It's all backwards.
Tie-breaker 1 - Thursday 26th 8PM - Scotland beat Norway 10-3 . Norway play on.
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
SCO 2 0 0 3 1 0 4 X 10
NOR 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 X 3
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Tie-breaker 2 - Friday 27th 9AM - Korea beat China 6-5 - China plays Italy.
Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
KOR 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 2 6
CHN 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 5
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Tie-breaker 2 - Friday 27th 9AM - Norway beat Italy 9 - 4 - Italy plays China
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
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Tie-breaker 2 - Friday 27th 9AM - Norway beat Italy 9 - 4 - Italy plays China
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
ITA 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 4
NOR 0 1 0 3 0 1 2 2 9
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Tie-breaker 3 - Friday 27th 2.30 PM - Italy is relegated
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
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Tie-breaker 3 - Friday 27th 2.30 PM - Italy is relegated
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
CHN 1 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 6
ITA 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 4
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