2007 Carleton Heights
Women's Cash

An Ottawa Valley Curling Tour &
Ontario Curling Tour Event

Tie-Breaker Rules

• If two or more teams have the same win-loss record after the round robin, but all tied teams are positioned to finish within the top four teams in rank, ties will be broken in the following order:
  1. better round-robin record between tied teams, but only applies if ALL tied teams played each other in the round robin
  2. higher strength of schedule*
  3. coin flip or drawn lots
     * - strength of schedule is the total won-loss record of all opponents that team played in the round robin
     
• If two or more teams have the same win-loss record after the round robin and are tied for a top four position, but not all teams tied can be ranked within the top four teams, ties will be broken by a combination of a Team Shoot-out and tie-breaker games.
  • The following table describes the different possible combinations of tie-breakers
  • ranking for the tie-breakers will be determined based on the following order:
  1. team shoot-out results, if a team shootout was required
  2. better round-robin record between tied teams, but only applies if ALL tied teams played each other in the round robin (except in some cases noted below in the table)
  3. higher strength of schedule
  4. coin flip or drawn lots
  • the winners of all games shown in bold qualifies for the championship round
    

  Place	# Teams	Team SO	Sat 9:30pm TBs	Sun 9am TBs
  4th	2	No		4th vs 5th
  	3	Maybe-a	5th vs 6th	4th vs W5/6
  	4	No	4th vs 7th, 5th vs 6th	W4/7 vs W5/6
  	6	Yes-b	4th vs 7th, 5th vs 6th	W4/7 vs W5/6
  3rd	3	Maybe-c	3rd vs 4th	L3/4 vs 5th
  	4	No		3rd vs 6th, 4th vs 5th
  	5	Yes	6th vs 7th	3rd vs W6/7, 4th vs 5th
  	6	Yes	5th vs 8th, 6th vs 7th	3rd vs W6/7, 4th vs W5/8
  2nd	4	No	2nd vs 5th, 3rd vs 4th	L2/5 vs L3/4
  	5	Yes	2nd vs 3rd	4th vs 5th, 6th vs L2/3
  	6	No	4th vs 5th	2nd vs 7th, 3rd vs 6th
  	7	Yes	4th vs 5th, 7th vs 8th	3rd vs 6th, 2nd vs W7/8
  1st	5	Yes-d	2nd vs 5th, 3rd vs 4th	L2/5 vs L3/4
  	6	Yes	1st vs 4th, 2nd vs 3rd	5th vs L1/4, 6th vs L2/3
  	9	Yes	3rd vs 6th, 4th vs 5th, 8th vs 9th	1st vs W8/9, 2nd vs 7th

  a - if a team was 2-0 in RR against tied teams, they are ranked 4th, otherwise team shootout
  b - the two teams that finish last in the team shootout (and ranked 8th and 9th) are eliminated
  c - if a team was 0-2 in RR against tied teams, they are ranked 5th, otherwise team shootout
  d - the team placing first in the team shootout (and ranked 1st) goes directly to the championship round

  • After the completion of the tie-breaker games, the qualifiers from tie-breakers will be ranked in order for the championship round based on their initial tie-breaker ranking

Tie-Breaker Games

• In all tie-breaker games, rock colour and last rock in the first end will be determined by the standard coin flip.

Team Shoot-out Rules

• Each player of the team will deliver one rock
  • For a 3-player team: 1 player throws twice, and shall be the 1st and last rocks delivered by the team
• One team member must be in the house during the delivery of each rock
• Sweeping is permitted
• Each rock after coming to rest will be measured from the pin, scored and then removed
• Any rock that is not in the house when it comes to rest will be scored as 183cm or 72in
• The 3 rocks with the lowest measurements will count as the team's shoot-out score
• Ties between team shoot-out scores will be broken by the measurement of the rock not included in the team shoot-out score
• There will be no practice rocks permitted before the team shoot-out