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By Alessia Proietti

Draw Shot Challenge

Peterman and Team Canada women’s curling teammates eliminated from Olympics

Feb 17, 2022 | 4:56 PM

Although finishing the round robin set with a 5-4 record, the Canadian women’s curling team were eliminated from the Olympic playoffs on Feb. 16 because of a controversial draw shot challenge.

Team Canada, led by Olympic champion and skip Jennifer Jones, played their first match on Feb. 10 against South Korea. With Red Deer’s very own Jocelyn Peterman making her debut to the Olympic stage, the team started with a 12-7 victory.

A summary of their games can be found below:

By Feb.16, things were looking good for the women as they sat at a favorable 4-3 record.

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With two games scheduled, their first versus the Republic of China was a close game. Neck and neck throughout, both teams were tied with a 9-9 score by the 10^th end. In the extra end, China’s Ziqi Dong and Rui Wang earned the team two extra points, bringing them to an 11-9 win.

Now at a 4-4 record, Team Jones needed to win against Denmark later that same day in order to have a chance at making the playoffs.

Winning by a landslide, the game only had to go to the eighth end for the Canadian women to beat Denmark 10-4.

Although their record now sat back at a positive 5-4, so did that of Great Britain and Japan.

In Canadian curling competitions, teams at a tie usually have a tie-breaker game. However, at the Olympics, the Draw Shot Challenge (DSC) decides who moves forward, which has been a fairly debated custom.

At the start of each round robin game, the teams have a Last Stone Draw (LSD) determining who gets the hammer, delivering their stone second in the first end. Two players from each team curl a regular shot, one clockwise and one counter clockwise, measuring the distance from the center of the stone to the center point of the house. Once the distances of both shots are added, the team with the smallest combined distance wins the LSD.

These measurements are added up after all nine round robin games, dropping the worst measurement to arrive at a DSC total.

In Canada’s case, they were in last place out of the 10 teams with a DSC score of 45.44 cm. Japan and Great Britain were just shortly behind, at 36 cm and 35.27 cm respectively.

This challenge determined the fate of the Canadian team to break the tie for the playoffs, sending Team Jones home.

Prior to the Olympics, the World Curling Federation listed Sweden and Canada in the top five of their world rankings for men and women’s competitions.