Objective
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- To score the most points over 14 ends. Points scored by bowls ending up closest to the jack.
- The bowl closest to the jack scores one point until an opponent’s bowl is closer and cancels it out.
- Each bowl on that team scores a point until a rival bowl is deemed closer.
- Bowls in the ditch which have been marked with chalk count.
- If Seconds cannot agree a skip from another rink or Club Member can measure.
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Game length
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- Games are comprised of 14 ends (or when time runs out).
- Games start and end according to the official schedule.
- If games start late, games must finish at the scheduled time (e.g. 6:45pm-8:00pm).
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Equipment
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- Players are required to wear flat soled shoes.
- All rinks will be set-up with mats and flip scoreboards.
- Players must pick-up scorecard and appropriate set of bowls from Clubhouse.
- Teams are required to keep score.
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Players on Rink, Gender Ratio and Defaults
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- Teams are comprised of 3 players - a skip, a second, and a lead.
- The skips set-up at the far end of the rink where they will manage the head (terminology for bowls gathered around the jack)
- The lead of the winning team sets the mat anywhere before the yellow marker and bowls the jack to where their skip indicates.
- The skip centers the jack in the rink.
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Game Set-Up
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- Games begin with a coin flip to determine which team has first bowl.
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General Game Rules
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- The lead of the team who won the coin toss bowls first, while the skips stand behind the head (other end of the rink) and direct bowls for their team.
- Back of Mat must be placed a minimum 2m out from ditch, but can be positioned up further.
- Jack must be delivered 23m from mat; however, any jack delivered within 2m of the opposite ditch is centered at the 2m mark. Jacks delivered out of bounds, into the ditch or too short are returned for the opposing team to deliver. They may re-set the mat before doing so.
- One foot must be on the mat while bowling.
- Each lead alternates bowls until all 3 are done.
- Seconds wait their turn in behind off the rink.
- Once seconds have bowled, skips come down and bowl their 4 bowls, while seconds control the head and leads watch from the side.
- The winning team’s lead sets the next mat while the losing team’s lead rakes in the bowls.
- After four ends are complete, skip becomes lead, lead becomes second, and second becomes skip.
- Bowls which finish outside rink boundaries are removed by that player’s Skip.
- On the line is in. (Players on the mat end of rink stand on marker and advise).
- Bowls which land in ditch are also removed... unless it touched the jack when first delivered.
- If the jack is knocked out of bounds it’s re-centered at the 2m mark.
- If the jack has been knocked into the ditch within rink boundaries it remains there. Scoring bowls are measured from where it lies.
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Playoffs
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- A game can end in a tie during the regular season.
- During playoffs, if tied at the end of 14 ends then a 15th tie-breaker end should be played.
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