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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 36m

"trend of LCQ trends"

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someone hadn't had enough coffee before doing social media this morning.

Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 1h

My men's arena nationals preview is now live!

A lot of great teams, some very new clubs with first-time nationals teams, and a look at the trend of Last Chance Qualifier trends

curlingintheusa.substack.com/p/2025-mens-...

2025 Men's Arena National Championships Preview

Repeats, resurgences, debuts, and last chances

curlingintheusa.substack.com

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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 12h

Polo 🩵

Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 12h

Tuned in late, and I'm still gonna get to see 9 innings of baseball.

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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 13h

🚨🚨 SPINNER ALERT 🚨🚨
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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 13h

The slo-mo showed the bat vibrating. How is that not a foul ball?

Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 17h

Sheets named Ace of Spades and Two of Hearts? Ice surface being *above* the walking surface as you enter the building? TVs for scoreboards?

It'll be a different vibe at next week's Arena Nationals. Check out my women's preview 👇
curlingintheusa.substack.com/p/2025-women...

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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 1d

The USA Curling Arena National Championships are just a few days away!

Meet the women's teams, see who I picked to win, and why this event is starting two days earlier than it has in years' past.

curlingintheusa.substack.com/p/2025-women...

2025 Women's Arena National Championship Preview

Will MoPac retain their newfound dominance in Las Vegas?

curlingintheusa.substack.com

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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 1d

The USA Curling Arena National Championships are just a few days away!

Meet the women's teams, see who I picked to win, and why this event is starting two days earlier than it has in years' past.

curlingintheusa.substack.com/p/2025-women...

2025 Women's Arena National Championship Preview

Will MoPac retain their newfound dominance in Las Vegas?

curlingintheusa.substack.com

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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to this iteration of the rule. I had heard this thrown around last year, and it makes the blank a strategic tool.

Two teams tied in the 7th end, where one desperately wants to blank and the other wants to force while create chaos.

And we love chaos.

Grand Slam of Curling @grandslamofcurling.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 New GSOC Rule Alert:

Starting at the CO-OP Tour Challenge in Nisku, teams will now be limited to one blank end per game — a move to make curling more exciting.

Read more ⤵️
https://bit.ly/3IG8ThM

#GSOC #Curling #LetsRock

How the Grand Slam of Curling is working to curtail blank ends

Unless you’re the ultimate curling purist, you probably don’t like blank ends. We can all think of at least one time we sat down to watch a curling game — live or on television — and had to wait close...

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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 2d

It's not even mid October and I'm already in the "stay up until 130 making curling spreadsheets" mode.

a man in a leather jacket and tie is saying cool cool cool cool cool cool cool

ALT: a man in a leather jacket and tie is saying cool cool cool cool cool cool cool

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Aweglib @aweglib.bsky.social · 2d

happy yankees eliminated from the playoffs day to all who celebrate

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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, Blue Jays.

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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 4d

I hate having a lot of browser tabs open in general. I should track how many I keep open when I'm working on these previews. Currently at 34, and I don't think that was the max.

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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 4d

About as strong of a field as I can remember seeing in recent years for this weekend's St. Paul Cashspiel

Women's side has all 4 US Olympic Trials teams as well as Korea's Eunjung Kim. Men's side has 3 of the 4 Trials teams (no Dropkin) and Nothern Ontario's Trevor Bonot.

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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 5d

Coming at the end of the week to your inbox!

If you're not subscribed yet, sign up for free with your email at curlingintheusa.substack.com and both the women's and men's previews will be delivered straight to your inbox as soon as they go live!

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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 5d

Gonna take what I can get

Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 6d

Learned the meaning of the term snowliage today

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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 6d

Louie 🥲

MLB (Bot) @mlbbot.bsky.social · 6d

The @BlueJays escape the jam with the lead intact!

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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 6d

With that type of HM time, she is gonna be just fine finishing!

If she wants to hear it, with the warmer temps, I would highly recommend purposefully slowing herself for the first 13-15 miles and then checking how she feels at that point before deciding to speed up or not.

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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah that's not a great starting temp for a marathon. Electrolytes/salts are her friend

Hopefully she can just enjoy the experience and not worry about time. The TC marathon is one of my favorites that I've done.

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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 6d

Hopefully our cooler air is headed your way. Mountains here getting a fair bit of snow.

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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 6d

Surprised they don't have anything embedded in the grass. Or on the players. Or in the strike zone box.

Missed opportunities.

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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 6d

I am regretting turning it on for many reasons, camera angles included.

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Ben 🥌 @hoppecurls.bsky.social · 6d

Mercy rule?

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