2020 #GoldenGranite Awards Winner List

#BetweenTheSheets: Announcing #GoldenGranite Winners

Who took home top honuors over the 2019/20 season?

As was done last year shall be continued this year. With there being a comprehensive list of Golden Granite Awards again this year, the committee decided we needed to have a separate blog post just to announce all the winners.

ICYMI, the Golden Granite Awards officially kicked off on April 15 with the pre-show hype, opening monologue and presenting the first award of the season.

Here are the highlights:

🙏 In Memorandum
💝 Renaming the Social Team of the Year award
🏆 Presenting the NEW Grant Hopley Award
🎇 Congratulations to Team Tipple

If you want to relive the entire opener (or you missed it for whatever reason), check it out HERE.

We are out of the hack, time to sweep into the house. Bring on the awards....

2020 #GoldenGranite Opening

#BetweenTheSheets: And The Award Goes To.....

Handing out the season-ending #GoldenGranite Awards

Happy 5th Birthday Golden Granite. You do not look a day over 2.

What a season to celebrate a milestone achievement for the blog. A season of high's and low's and ultimately a shut down thanks to #COVID19.

But we will not let a pandemic ruin a party. The positive of being an online resource is pandemics, epidemics and natural disasters do not shut down the blog. So we can take some solace in that, right?

Who knew when the blog started the Golden Granite awards back in 2016 it would continue to be the perfect closing ceremony rock for the season. And the award "show" has grown over the past few seasons.

There have been co-hosts. New awards. Debate among who should have won. It almost feels like a regular award show now.

ICYMI, take a look back at the history of the Golden Granite Awards from the inaugural show in 2016 to the further development in 2017, 2018 and last year.

Thank you to those who continue to stick with the "little blog that could". This blog remains one-man operational with no sponsorship or revenue generation. It continues to be hosted by a fan for the fans. And your support is the fuel in the tank keeping #TwineTime moving along.

In this ever-changing environment, I hope all of you are doing well. Staying healthy. Staying safe. Staying positive. As a mental health advocate we must recognize the importance of checking in with one another as well as checking in with ourselves.

Ask the simple question "How are you doing?" to others but also "How am I doing?" to yourself. And be honest with your response. We are in this together and together we can get through this.

Positive thoughts and good rocks sent from the #TwineTime house to your house.

But enough of the pre-show hype. Lets get on with the show.

FINAL #PowerRankings

#BetweenTheSheets: Final Power Rankings Top 50

Time to officially close the house on the 2019/20 season

Everyone is still in mourning over the lost few months of the 2019/20 curling season. It is sad. It is unfortunate. But it was also required.

COVID-19 has taken down all sports, curling is just added to the list. And while it is disappointing to see the season end early, especially without a few major world championship events, it is what it is.

It is not like the sport itself has died. And it is not like we do not know what it is like to live without curling.

I still see quite a few posts on social media remarking how upsetting and lost they are without curling right now. Yes it is sad but really? What do you do every May through August?

Yes losing major international competitions is a tough blow to athletes and fans and governing bodies but it is not the end of the world. Well at least not the end of the curling world. We still must remember there is a much larger issue at play here. I would give up every world championship in every sport for one season if it meant the end of this pandemic.

Weeks have now passed since the shut down of curling, from events to clubs. But we need to move on folks. The weather is getting nicer. Curling season would be on its final rock at this point anyway. The time to mourn is over.

How about we look back on the season we did have and celebrate?