# Watching Briar qualifiers in a pub **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** olympic-sports-track\ **Created:** [March 10, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985 "2023-03-10T19:17:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985/1 "2023-03-10T19:17:00Z")
Decided to take the afternoon off. Stoped at one of my favourite pubs. Watching the page qualifier for the Briar, waiting for a blizzard to come through. Pint, stones, and a blizzard. Doesn’t get more Canadian. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985/2 "2023-03-10T19:19:49Z")
Northern Ontario just conceded 4th end to the Wildcard1 team for one point. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985/3 "2023-03-10T19:31:16Z")
WildCard now sitting 3 on 5th end. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985/4 "2023-03-10T19:31:44Z")
Northern Ontario has hammer shot. Looking at two different draws to the button, past a lot of guards. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985/5 "2023-03-10T19:34:52Z")
Didn’t score, but nicked the button so WildCard only scores 1. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985/6 "2023-03-10T19:54:36Z")
Second for Northern Ontario looks like Hugh Grant in his youth. And Northern Ontario does a takeout and freeze and finally scores with the hammer! ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985/7 "2023-03-10T20:33:00Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > the Briar Prithee, kindly enlighten the benighted who aren’t in the pub with you and presumably lack context because of their great misfortune in being non-Canadians. Google only wants to advertise apartment complexes to me when I ask it. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985/8 "2023-03-10T20:43:57Z")
I believe he speaks of Curling. The Sweeping and such. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985/9 "2023-03-10T21:37:50Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > Google only wants to advertise apartment complexes to me when I ask it. Interesting glimpse of the Google algorithm at work. I type in “The Briar” and get a page full of hits about the Tim Hortons Briar. [https://www.curling.ca/2023brier/](https://www.curling.ca/2023brier/) > **[Tim Hortons Brier 2023: Results, standings, schedule & TV channel for...](https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/curling/news/tim-hortons-brier-2023-results-standings-schedule-tv-channel-mens-curling-championship/nwxikoz1prpr8mzynrvwnhzv)** > > London, Ont. was the site for the 2023 Brier. > **[2023 Tim Hortons Brier | Budweiser Gardens](https://www.budweisergardens.com/events/detail/2023-tim-hortons-brier)** > > Mar 3 - 12, 2023 > **[2023 Tim Hortons Brier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Tim_Hortons_Brier)** > > The 2023 Tim Hortons Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship, was held from March 3 to 12 at the Budweiser Gardens in London, Ontario. The defending champion Team Canada rink, skipped by Brad Gushue won the event, and will go on to represent Canada at the 2023 World Men's Curling Championship on home soil at TD Place Arena in Ottawa, Ontario. It was a record fifth Brier title as a skip for Gushue. > Brad Gushue and his team won the 2022 edition and entered as the reigning Team Canada. ... I guess Sergey and Larry know where I live. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985/10 "2023-03-10T21:45:30Z")
Blizzard? _checks Regina weather_ Huh. We’ve got ‘light snow’ now and ‘periods of snow’ overnight in our forecast, and certainly no scary red blizzard warning bars on the Environment Canada forecast page. I hypothesize that you guys down there must have done something wrong. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985/11 "2023-03-10T21:45:42Z")
Did you notice that you (consistently) spell it differently than the actual name of the event? I google “The Brier” and get the same results as you, approximately. OTOH, if you spelled it that way for Google and they still knew what you meant, it may be about where you are. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985/12 "2023-03-10T21:47:31Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > OTOH, if you spelled it that way for Google and they still knew what you meant, it may be about where you are. Fair point. I tried the orthodox spelling and got even more curling sites. Sergey and Larry know where I live. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985/13 "2023-03-10T21:48:29Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > certainly no scary red blizzard warning bars on the Environment Canada forecast page. SaskAlerts cancelled it about 20 minutes ago. Just a light snow so far. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985/14 "2023-03-10T21:52:22Z")
Blizzard, yes. We’re getting it now, in southern Alberta, where we’re expecting four to six inches of snow. It’s predicted to move east. If it wasn’t snowing so much, I might head off to a favourite pub too. As it is, I’m planting some seeds in pots. After all, winter will eventually end, and I hope to have plants to put outdoors. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985/15 "2023-03-10T21:53:22Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > winter will eventually end Dreamer! ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985/16 "2023-03-10T22:06:56Z")
Truly, an assertion that under the circumstances requires a cite. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985/17 "2023-03-10T22:11:41Z")
I’m optimistic. I’m reminded of the joke about the city slicker who is talking with a grizzled old farmer while a blizzard rages outside. “Think it’ll stop snowing?” asks the slicker of the farmer. “Well, it always has.” ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985/18 "2023-03-13T04:10:12Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Decided to take the afternoon off. Stoped at one of my favourite pubs. Watching the page qualifier for the Briar, waiting for a blizzard to come through. Oh, you’re watching here too? (Damn blizzard caused my incoming flight to be delayed by about a couple hours last night. Didn’t get home until around 2:00 A.M.) Anyway, apropos of this thread and the tournament: > [@Is curling the only sport where the teams announce their strategy?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-curling-the-only-sport-where-the-teams-announce-their-strategy/981094): > > Like @NorthernPiper I was watching the Brier today. One thing that struck me is that the players are miked up for the television feed, and so you can hear them discussing their strategy at every move. In fact, the opposing team can probably hear them pretty clear as well, since more often than not the players are shouting across the full length of the rink. This behaviour is in stark contrast to every other team sport I can think of, where strategies are discussed by the teams and coaches in p… ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985/19 "2023-03-13T11:35:05Z")
Interesting side story to the Brier; a local man, and curling enthusiast, was fortunate to find a spot to play for team Nunavut. And helped them to their first win at the brier! The Nunavut team found they got a ton of unexpected local support. Because this gentleman’s day job was as a math teacher at a city high school! It started with just his students, then their parents, and spread from there to the whole city! It’s been a ton of fun!