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"I have been going out to quite a few schools with our curling Rox program and at one of the stations I
implemented stick curling. The reason for this was that we had a girl with cerebral palsy in a wheel chair and
wanted to show that even people in wheel chairs could curl. She had so much fun. And some of the teachers
had quit curling due to injuries etc and they tried the stick as well. I also told them about sturling and how it is
set up. They were very receptive and most had never heard of it before so I sent them to the web site. I will do
what I can to promote this sport."…Shannon

The original reason Sturling was started was to bring together stick, slide, and wheelchair curlers in friendly,
fun competition, under a unique, unambiguous name. It was intended to remove and avoid the discrimination
and animosity that had developed particularily between some stick and slide curlers.

As the following table illustrates, two-person team curling is rapidly fragmenting into different games with a
variety of rules. Even within particular named types, specific clubs sometimes add their own particular
deviations. Of course, each of those starting each different version has their own preference, but it is not
advantageous to the game as a whole, and to the vast majority of participants, to have such differences. Those
who travel to take part in two-person team curling can never be sure what rules they'll encounter. Also, those
who might like to try the sport won't know what to expect in their area, or at their club, or whether it will be what
they may anticipate. Promotion of competition of greater scope is hindered. Standardization would be highly
desirable.

Most forms use 6 rocks, and play 6 ends. The majority do not restrict delivery style (stick or slide), and even in
the stickcurling.ca website survey, the majority preferred allowing the slide delivery. Those games that require
movement from end to end have a very obvious drawback, eliminating so many participants and increasing the
length of the game, and for a highly dubious advantage. There is a novelty to the various versions, but it would
be beneficial in the longer term to adopt the most logically based, well thought out configuration of the game,
that has been sufficiently tested and accepted, and to promote it as widely as possible.