# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**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… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-briar-qualifiers-in-a-pub/980985)._