The Czechs played their last game at the World Championship 09. Scotland beat Canada.

Our national team took on the USA at the end of their time in Moncton. The Americans started the match better, managing to play the endgame even at their disadvantage. But just when it looked like we were turning the tide, there was a small mistake, which John Schuster's team took advantage of perfectly, scoring a three to go up by four. Ed Lukovich even subbed in at the end (Chris Plys came on), so he was sure to win. But the Czechs then played a deuce, and in the last end they built the situation so that the American skip was lucky to get one of our stones out, so there was no extra end. USA - Czech Republic, 7 : 6. Brief summary of our performance: three wins, eleventh place (the tenth-placed Japanese have the same number of wins, but they beat us in their match), a nice impression. Several evenly matched matches, several missed chances, lots of new experiences and suggestions. The curling world is evolving, and thankfully so are we. The evening round had its absolute highlight, the Canada Scotland duel. A very even start, then the Canadians had the upper hand for a while. One of the highlights of the match was David Murdoch's exhibition double (feather) on three and a 5-3 lead after eight ends. The Canadians finally took the match into extra end when the Scots couldn't play an accurate draw in the tenth end. In the extra end, teammates left Kevin Martin alone to sweep his own rock out of the free guard zone, and the rock ended up two inches from the sideline. After two more somewhat questionable situations, one of which was even handled by the lane umpire, the Canadians had to move the stone in front of the circle to the tee line. That didn't work, and the Scots rejoiced (6 : 5). Mostly from not playing a tie-break and going straight to a first-second match. Here ends my information mission. I'm flying back to the Czech Republic in the morning and you'll know the results before I do.

photo: The Americans and a view of the arena