All teams must have a minimum of 4 players registered with the PMCC for Thursday Night Mixers before the start of the season.

Teams with 5 players must record the 5^th player’s details with the League Representatives, prior to the start of the season.

• 5th players count as full members of the team and may play any position.

On each game night, teams must have at least 3 players present to play. A minimum of two registered team members are required to play a game. Spares (max. 2 per game) may throw either lead, second or, if the team is very inexperienced, third stones. Spares must be PMCC Members.

For regular season games Hammer/choice of colour is determined by a coin flip. In the playoffs the higher positioned team gets the choice of Hammer.

If a team is not prepared to start at 7:15pm they have until 7:30pm to start or forfeit the game. A team that is more than 5 minutes late loses both hammer and choice of rocks.

The standard rules of curling apply when a player arrives late:

• A late player may join an end if they have arrived in time to throw their rocks, otherwise they must wait until the next end to participate.
• When they arrive, they may be inserted into any position in the throwing order.
• If a player has joined the game late the team may re-arrange their throwing order at the beginning of the next end.

If a game cannot be played at the scheduled time, teams are encouraged to reschedule the missed game during Port Moody Curling Club practice time.

• If for ANY reason a makeup game cannot or is not played, then the team that was not able to play at the original scheduled time forfeits the game. The team that was able to play the game as scheduled receives a win.
• So that the next round robin or the playoffs can be scheduled makeup games must be completed before the last game of the current round robin.
• The Grand aggregate winner will be determined on the final night of regular season play and before the start of the playoffs. For that reason, all makeup games must occur before the end of the regular season and before the playoffs.
• If neither team was able to attend the scheduled game and no makeup game was played during the round robin both teams must report a loss.

Games must end by 9:15 p.m. without exception. Teams are encouraged to play at a brisk pace so they can complete as many ends as possible, up to a maximum of eight.

The buzzer will sound at 8:55 p.m., which is 20 minutes before the required end time. If the buzzer does not sound, teams must still follow the 8:55 p.m. time limit. At 8:55 p.m., if your third has not yet begun throwing, the end currently being played will be your final end. No new end may begin unless at least 15 minutes remain before 9:15 p.m.

League games may end in a tie. Playoff games will have a tie breaking mechanism announced before the game.

Results of games are to be reported on the score sheet in the lounge. Teams receive 2 pts for a win, 1 point for a tie, 0 points for a loss. Every effort will be made by the league to get the results of every game recorded on the club’s website. In the unlikely event that the teams did not, cannot or will not report the result of a game before the end of a round robin and before the new schedule must be drawn up, then both teams will receive a loss.

Ties in the standings will be broken by head-to-head records of the teams involved. If a tie still exists, a tie breaking method, to be chosen by the league executive (i.e. draw to button) will be utilized.

Per CurlBC recommendations: the “5 Rock FGZ rule” is in effect. The “No Tick rule” is NOT in effect.

Have fun and please be respectful to everyone!