Curling World Curling Tour to make the games only eight ends. Most tournaments on that tour are eight ends, as are the vast majority of recreational games. In international competition, each side is given 73 minutes to complete all of its throws. Each team is also allowed two minute-long timeouts per 10-end game. If extra ends are required, each team is allowed 10 minutes of playing time to complete its throws and one added 60-second timeout for each extra end. However, the "thinking time" system, in which the delivering team's game timer stops as soon as the shooter's rock crosses the
Bemidji Curling Club Olson and Charlie Naylor and 1988 Senior's Champions included Jack Israelson, Marv Roxstrom, Roger Pfannenstein and Noel Vanasse. In 1989 the team of Mark Haluptzok, Dan Haluptzok, Pete Fenson and Bob Fenson competed in the European Challenge for the right to represent the US in Switzerland. They finished second to Steve Brown of Wisconsin in an extra end playoff game. Junior curling has grown tremendously in our club in recent years, thanks to many parents and curlers who have been interested in promoting it. Our Sunday night junior league now has 50 to 70 participants. In 1989 the Bemidji Curling