Skins
In the skins portion of the event, teams get points that contribute to the overall score by scoring at least 2 points with the hammer or forcing a steal without. The number of points is unevenly divided through each of the 8 ends in each of the 3 ends.
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Famous quotes containing the word skins:
“The photograph is married to the eye,
Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.”
—J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)
“What were our praise to them? They eat
Quiet’s wild heart, like daily meat;
Who when night thickens are afloat
On dappled skins in a glass boat,
Far out under a windless sky;
While over them birds of Aengus fly....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)