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New game crokicurl to be featured at Fire and Ice Festival

The annual Fire and Ice Festival has a new wrinkle in 2019.

The popular Bracebridge event is featuring a new activity called crokicurl.  A mix between the kids tabletop game crokinole and curling, it is a new outdoor sport that is catching on across Canada.

A new crokicurl rink has been created at Memorial Park and will be a feature of next weekend’s big event.

The idea is to launch a circular jug filled with ice into a curling-like target. Instead of a level centre circle, there is a round depression that allows the ‘rock’ to drop in, which is a 20 point bonus.

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Unlike normal curling, there are posts around the outer edge that can be used to organize carom and bounce shots and you can shoot from anywhere around the circle. Like curling, you can take out an opponents rock with one of your own.

The sport was first seen in Western Canada.

There will be no cost to play, but first come first serve rules apply so there could be a wait.

A few of the starting rules:

  • The game is played with two teams. Each team is composed of 1-2 players. Teams of 1 play from opposing quadrants. For teams of 2, players from the same team play from opposing quadrants. Each player is limited to 1 quadrant. Each team has 4 rocks of the same colour.
  • A crokicurl shot is accomplished by firmly sliding a rock onto the playing surface, releasing before the halfway point of the starting line. The rock may be played from any point within the assigned quadrant. Players are permitted to place their feet against the side rail while shooting the rock.
  • The first player will try to score 20 points with their shot. If the rock successfully lands completely within the button it is removed and set aside to count as 20 points at the end of the round.
  • Subsequent shots attempt to remove an opponent rock from the playing surface, unless there are no rocks on the playing surface. If the rock fails to make contact with an opponent rock, the rock is removed from the game. At the same time, each player attempts to make a 20 point shot difficult for the opposing team.
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