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So, to wrap up our 2025/2026 season (more like a half-season) – it's silver at the Lithuanian Curling Championship! One ...
26/05/2026

So, to wrap up our 2025/2026 season (more like a half-season) – it's silver at the Lithuanian Curling Championship! One more, but also possibly the easiest of all the silvers we've had. :) And yes, we're staying together for another Olympic cycle! :D

27/04/2025

At the time we’re writing this, we were hoping to play an intriguing 5th game in our "Best of 5" qualification event. Unfortunately, two days before the event, one of us caught a nasty cold, which wasn’t the best news to begin with. But as if that wasn’t enough, on the day of our first game, the other found out about the death of a close relative, so we more or less packed our bags in our heads. Still, we got the shot at the 'Best of 3' before boarding the bus back home. We easily won the first game, easily lost the second, and had a very good comeback in the third before losing by one point without a hammer - quite good for us given the circumstances.

Overall, the season was quite positive, even if short for us. Sometimes we felt awkward after winning (our most memorable game against Olympic bronze winners from Norway), sometimes happier than the team beating us :) But most importantly, with every season we’re learning to have more fun while playing and practicing. Because you never know how much fun is left for you. So have fun! ;)

Our short 2024/25 season reached the prefinal stage a few weeks ago when we traveled to Riga for some practice, a one-da...
23/04/2025

Our short 2024/25 season reached the prefinal stage a few weeks ago when we traveled to Riga for some practice, a one-day tournament, and the WCT Latvian Mixed Doubles Curling Cup. We had two losses and one win in the one-day tournament, finishing in 4th place; at the WCT Latvian Mixed Doubles Curling Cup, we had two losses and four wins, finishing in 9th place. As usual, we took a series of selfies with the teams we hadn't played before. Tomorrow, we will be heading back to Riga to play the "Best of 5" qualification tournament for the World Mixed Doubles Qualification Event against last year's champions, Team Rykovė/Rykov, since there is no national championship this year. Wish us the best of luck or at least good curling! :)

As much as we enjoy tournaments in Curling Tallinn , they always seem to come at the wrong time for us—either early in t...
18/02/2025

As much as we enjoy tournaments in Curling Tallinn , they always seem to come at the wrong time for us—either early in the first part of the season or early in the second, when we're out of shape, as we almost always are :) Especially this year, since we don't have curling ice in our country and, in our city, no ice for curling at all.

At the 9th Tallinn Masters Mixed Doubles 2025, our group included previous tournament winners/WCF tour leaders, recent World MD silver medalists, and recent Olympic bronze medalists :D Thankfully, there were two other teams we could try to compete with after spending three days practicing. One was a host team from Tallinn (one of two in our group), and the Wiksten father/daughter duo from Denmark. We knew the best we could aim for was two wins. And two wins it was.

We were completely and deservedly destroyed on the first day by the previous tournament winners from Germany. But on the second day, things went much better for us—first we won against the Estonian team. In the evening, we faced the Olympic bronze medalists from Norway, a team we've played at least three times in our careers without success, so our hopes were low. They punished us for every centimeter early on, but the result was still manageable. In the 7th end with their power play, we were already warming up our hands for handshakes when they missed a hit for 3 points. With one stolen point, we decided to go to the 8th end, where we needed to steal at least 2 for an extra end. The rest, as they say, is history—we stole 3 and won the match.

It was probably the first match where joy was overshadowed by confusion and a kind of unpleasant feeling for ruining another team's chances of making the playoffs (though they ended up ruining them themselves with bad t-shots). That was new for us. The next day, we faced a winless Danish team that was on fire and left us no chance. Finally, we were once again destroyed by the World silver medalists from Tallinn—likely our favorite MD team in the world.

Another first (twice!) was that we didn’t manage to get selfies with teams that lost to us. I don’t blame them—it’s just a pity. But as we’ve said before: learning to lose is just as hard as learning to win.

This is a very sad year for Lithuanian curling (especially for the women's team that qualified for the ECC A group and t...
12/11/2024

This is a very sad year for Lithuanian curling (especially for the women's team that qualified for the ECC A group and the Women's Senior team that won silver at the World Championship), as we lost access to one of the ice hockey rinks in our country, which had de facto been turned into a curling arena. And since Mintautė got a dog this summer, we decided to shrink our season to the second half of the year, with just a one-off trip to the WCT Latvian Mixed Doubles Curling Cup. Two practice sessions before the event were all we had, hence the results... One game lost in an extra end, another lost by a single point in the 8th end and then we got destroyed in our third game. We had a chance to make it to the quarter-finals with a win in the fourth game (we had the second-best DSC among all teams!), but with an open hit on our last shot, Mintautė somehow lost balance, fell on all fours, and the stone went nowhere. So, even with a so-so performance, we could have progressed to the next stage, but oh well, s**t happens. Anyway, it was an excellent event with lots of selfies with teams we’d never played before! See you next year.

Last year in the Lithuanian championship, we experienced a very painful loss in the final. This year, we lost in the sem...
12/05/2024

Last year in the Lithuanian championship, we experienced a very painful loss in the final. This year, we lost in the semi-finals and secured bronze (the only medal missing in our collection), but it felt so much better than last year, and in some sense, it even feels like a victory. How come? It takes a lot of dedication, hard work, and even luck to win, but as someone (we're sure reading this post) said: "If your opponents don't have fun (playing curling), then we already won." And after last year's loss, we decided that this season (which was quite short, to be honest), we'll invest in the only thing we can control: what we think and how we behave when we play, when we win, but most importantly - when we lose. Because to lose in style might be the most difficult thing to master in sports, but it also leads to many beautiful things. We're big fans of the Estonian pair of Marie Kaldvee / Harri Lill, and we've seen live how many matches they've lost when Marie missed the last shots (many of them quite easy). Still, they would high-five each other and hug for a second in support after each game. They had a dip in their performance in the middle of this Mixed Doubles Curling Championship 2024 in Östersund but kept on playing, doing their best, and won silver – we're so happy for them. Are we on the same level? Oh no, not even halfway there, but at least we know the direction in which we'd like to go. See you there!

This weekend, we won a silver (or lost gold?) in the Lithuanian Mixed Championship. Not the worst silver we've received,...
30/04/2024

This weekend, we won a silver (or lost gold?) in the Lithuanian Mixed Championship. Not the worst silver we've received, considering it was an ad hoc project aimed at making the national championship bigger and more enjoyable. For practice, we only had the opportunity to play two games one week before (during which we were completely demolished by our opponents :D). Still, unexpectedly, we won our first two games and secured a spot in the final, which went quite well for the first 6 or 7 ends. But then, the sight of gold likely messed with our minds :) In the photo we look great though!

Our only second and last international tournament this year - World Curling Tour Latvian Mixed Doubles Curling II. Got o...
25/04/2024

Our only second and last international tournament this year - World Curling Tour Latvian Mixed Doubles Curling II. Got one more 4th place and 3 new selfies with the teams we never played before: Koana/Aoki (Japan), Regza/Vonda and Regza/Baranovskis. Next up: Lithuanian national championship in May!

Our first tournament of the 2023/24 season, which is quite minimal for us as we decided to get some rest after dedicatin...
27/11/2023

Our first tournament of the 2023/24 season, which is quite minimal for us as we decided to get some rest after dedicating all our time to curling in 2022/23 while preparing for the World Qualification event, was the World Curling Tour Latvian Mixed Doubles Curling Cup. Despite being tiresome, it turned out well for us.

After losing our first match to rivals from Lithuania and a team from Sweden in an extra end (who ultimately won the tournament), we secured three straight wins and a spot in the quarterfinals. On the last day, one more win took us to the semi-finals, but unfortunately, we completely ran out of energy and had to settle for fourth place. Surprisingly, this is our highest achievement in WCT tournaments yet! It's not ideal, but it's quite great. (Selfies are only with teams we didn't play before - nothing personal! 😄)

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