Please note that the approved codes on the World Curling website are accepted at Curling Canada events.
Sweeping FAQ
Questions & answers about the 2016 Sweeping Moratorium (updated October 31, 2016).
Here are the links to various manufacturer’s products. They have a number of different products that recreation players can use at the club. Curlers will still need to check with their club, league, association etc. to ensure they have not imposed rules saying only WCF heads will be allowed.
AshamBalancePlus
Hardline Curling
Goldline
Olson Curling
PerformanceTournament Curling
Unless you are playing in a designated playdown/event where the moratorium is in place, then, yes you can use your broom from last season regardless of its ‘compliant’ status.
Yes you can. Hair brushes are banned from competition only.
Absolutely yes. But again, only for recreation play. You can pretty much use anything that was in play last year.
There will not be a grace period for implementation in events where the moratorium is in place. Manufacturers plan to have sufficient numbers available for purchase, therefore there is plenty of opportunity, as a competitive player, to become compliant immediately.
We would suggest you first mention to the organizers of the bonspiel of those teams using non-compliant brooms so they can advise those teams. Curling Canada would then investigate.
The person (skip or vice-skip) holding a brush as the target brush must use the brush they declared at the start of the game as their own sweeping brush.