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Kalamazoo Curling Club Summer News

Posted by Jason on Monday, June 21, 2010   |   Link to this post

Blog posts have been a bit few and far between now that curling season has slipped into history, and the first day of summer has officially arrived… but there are a few things worth letting you all know about.

First, Wings Stadium will be hosting open curling on the LAST Monday in June, July and August. The time and price are the same as always: 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. with a cost of $10 per person (12 and under are free). Let us know that you’re planning on going by E-mail or on the Facebook event page.

Also, our friends at the Fort Wayne Curling Club, down Indiana way, are hosting a summer bonspiel on the 21st and 22nd of August. We would love to send some ambassadors from the Kalamazoo area down to their first attempt at a bonspiel — it may offer some inspiration and ideas for a future Kalamazoo Curling Club event! If you are interested in helping to form a team, send an E-mail and we’ll help get you in touch with other people who express an interest. We have offered to loan them two sets of rocks for their bonspiel (they plan on having 8 sheets available for play), so we really would like to send a group down there to accompany our rocks.

Fall and Winter league information will be available here very soon. We want to get you signed up for 2010-11 curling fun. We have tentative plans for continued curling on Friday nights (broken up into two sessions, as before) and an expanded “Super League” on Monday nights (longer season that covers the entire curling season). Our Beginners’ Leagues were very successful, and we are planning on incorporating those into our 2010-11 season as well.

We have officially be designated as a non-profit organization, so we will also be ramping up the fundraising for our coming season. We’re hoping to get our rock sponsorship program going very soon, too.

So that’s what’s going on this summer… we’ll keep you posted as we have more developments in the next few weeks.

Friday League Tournament 2010

Posted by Jason on Wednesday, April 14, 2010   |   Link to this post

Well, we’ve finally worked out how we’re going to work out our club championship this year. Things were complicated because we had so many teams! This is a good problem to have… So we’re going to play from 7 p.m. to Midnight, with a total of 3 draws. The first draw will match the #7 teams from each division against the #8 teams, and the #5 teams against the #6 teams. The second draw will match the #3 and #4 teams against each other and the #1 and #2 teams. The winners of the #1 vs #2 matches will play against each other at 10 p.m. for the club championship.

The first and second draws will take place at 7 and 8:30 p.m. These will be 5 end matches, with NO NEW ENDS starting after 8:15 for the first draw and 9:45 for the second draw. The third draw will be 7 end matches, and will start at 10 p.m.

The non-winners (there are no losers here!) in the first two draws will be eliminated from the tournament. We encourage EVERYONE to hang out and be social for the evening. It would be great to have a good crowd watching the 10 o’clock draw and cheering on the championship game. The Icehouse is scheduled to be open on Friday night, so people should be able to get some foodstuffs and libations to bring over to the cube viewing area.

7 PM DRAW
Teams Thomas, MSU Green, Hall, MSU White, Elliott, Schmitt, M Gleaton and Cook

8:30 PM DRAW
Teams Eckstrand, MSU Sparty, Brezinsky, Chase, Thomspon, Deater, C Gleaton and Kinkade

2010 Club Championship Brackets – Full Schedule

Beginner’s League & Super League

Posted by Jason on Monday, March 15, 2010   |   Link to this post

The sport of curling has received a HUGE lift (as it does every 4 years for some crazy reason) due to an increase in media coverage, something about the Winter Olympic games, and on a more local level, Kalamazoo’s involvement with the 2010 USA Curling National Championships. As a result, we are offering two new leagues as we head out of this wonderful 2009-2010 curling season.

KCC Beginner’s league starts April 8th, 5:30-7pm.
In the Cube at Wings Stadium.
Announcing our first all beginners league. If you think you might enjoy curling this is a good way to find out. This league only lasts for three weeks, so there’s no huge commitment. It will be held every Thursday evening, starting April 8th at 5:30pm. The nights will consist of one half hour of off ice instruction and one hour of playing a short game. All you need to play are loose fitting clothes and rubber soled shoes, like running shoes. Cost is $50. You will not be disappointed.

Deadline for payment is March 31.

Send an E-mail to sign up.

KCC Super league starts March 18th, 7-9pm.
In the Cube at Wings Stadium.
Announcing our first experienced league. Our normal league is put together of a healthy mix of experienced people and beginners. Our super league will consist of mostly experienced curlers. So put together the best team you can and come throw down. You don’t have to be experienced to play, just know that there will be no curling mercy. This league lasts for six weeks and will be held every Thursday evening, starting March 18th from 7-9pm. Cost is $75.

To sign up email this address.

Beginner’s League

Posted by Jason on Monday, March 1, 2010   |   Link to this post

KCC Beginner’s league starts March 18th, 5:30-7pm. In the Cube at Wings Stadium.

Announcing our first all beginners league. If you think you might enjoy curling, this is a good way to find out. This league only lasts for three weeks, so there’s no huge commitment. It will be held every Thursday evening, starting March 18th at 5:30pm. The nights will consist of one half hour of off ice instruction and one hour of playing a short game. All you need to play are loose fitting clothes and clean, rubber-soled shoes, like running shoes. Cost is $50. You will not be disappointed.

To sign up, stop by our merchandise table during the Nationals, or email this address.

Curling Clock Software

Posted by Jason on Monday, February 8, 2010   |   Link to this post

Leading up to the US National Curling Championships being held here in Kalamazoo, the Kalamazoo Curling Club is going to spend some time doing a little timekeeping practice. Should be kind of fun, and should be very helpful for volunteers who will be helping with the timekeeping at the Nationals. That being said, there are some free computer applications that are available for just this task. We provide the links here, so that you can get a feel for this software should you be interested.

PC version: http://www.universeofsynergy.com/curlclock/
another PC version: curlingclock.com
Mac version: http://curlingtimer.sourceforge.net/CurlingTimer.html

For those of you looking for iPhone applications for timing your rocks on the ice… Curling Ice Timer is available from Apple’s iTunes App Store.

And for those of you who just want to PLAY a little curling on your iPhone, give this a try.

Or take a look at all of the curling apps in the App Store.

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