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@rationaldoge no, double touching was allowed and is clarified as allowed. Media is calling touching granite after handle, double touching. Touching the granite used to be accepted (lots of examples for decades), and now is explicitly disallowed by only clarifying ambiguous rules. Touching the granite does not affect where the 40lb rock ends up. The new rule is to prevent pushing it by the granite for the spirit of the game, but the handle is so much more precise that it’s silly.

@rationaldoge the bigger problem is the honour system for hog line violations. A hog line violation results in the stone being removed. They have handles that detect it, but they cannot detect violations that use the granite with the same tech. They likely need cameras and video review, but that messes with the play clocks.

@feld @rationaldoge if you hold the stone too long (past the line), you are hogging it. There is a lot of funny curling lingo.🙂