Team Edwards to National Academy

David Edwards and his team of Moray Combe, Gavin Fleming and Graham Sloan have belatedly been included in the Royal Club's National Academy Squad, see the post on the Royal Caledonian Curling Club's website here.

When the athletes selected for the Squad were named last month (see here), several names were missing. The Edwards team lost out in a tiebreaker for fourth place in the Bruadar Scottish Championship last season, and many thought that such a good performance deserved Royal Club support this season. Today's announcement indicates that others agree, and that funding is now in place for them to be included. That brings the National Academy Squad teams to eight.

David Edwards' pic is by Bob.

Streaming from Aberdeen

The Scottish Curling Forum has had an active discussion in recent months about the feasibility of video streaming of Scottish events.

Onthebutton (above) has been experimenting and as I type this he has a stream for the Gold Leage live at http://www.ustream.tv/scottishcurling.

When this afternoon's game is finished, a recording will be available to view.

The experiment will continue tonight from 6pm. Why not click on the link to see the curling live.

And who is 'Onthebutton'? None other than David Edwards (below)!

PS Moray Combe apologises for the shakey camera work.

Photos by Bob.

Lockerbie 1: Men's Mini Tour

David Edwards, Moray Combe, Gavin Fleming and Graham Sloan won the Lockerbie round of the three event Men's Mini Tour today. The team were undefeated through the weekend, beating Logan Gray in the semi and Colin Hamilton, skipping Graham Patrick's side, in the final. The linescore is here. Hamilton's team was Graham Patrick, Sean Murphy and James Boyd.

Top: L-R Gavin Fleming, David Edwards, Moray Combe and Graham Sloan.
Above: David Edwards and Colin Hamilton in the final. And just to show that not everyone on the ice was wearing black, here's a pic of Gavin Fleming. Photos by Bob Cowan.