#ecc2021

2021 European Curling Championship,
[Bronze] Alina Kovaleva (RUS) vs Daniela Jentsch (GER)

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Question: Who is the offending team in this scenario? Is it GER, because GER touched their own stone? Or is it RUS, because they interfered with GER, who has first priority to sweep a GER stone behind tee line?

Which team gets the final say in adjusting the placement of the stone? RUS made the final adjustment in this case, but could GER have overruled it and made their own adjustment?

Is this just a clear case of a burned stone by GER, so RUS as the non-offending team could have elected to kick off the burned stone and hit to sit 7?

If, on the other hand, RUS is the offending team due to interference, then is there a way to determine how much interference is too much to count as an offense? There was physical contact in this case, but what if there wasn't? What if there was no clashing of the brooms, but there was something that GER could argue was interference nonetheless?

WCF rule says that a team has first privilege to sweep its own stone behind tee line. If, hypothetically, RUS is sweeping a RUS stone, and GER is sweeping a GER stone, and they clash brooms behind tee line and burns a stone, who is the offending team then?