Crokicurl is a Canadian winter sport invented by Liz Wreford and Leanne Muir of Public City Architecture in 2016 and first played in Winnipeg, Canada. The game is a large scale hybrid of curling and the board game Crokinole.

The McKenzie Tournament is a life-sized version of crokinole played on ice using smaller, lighter curling rocks (ours are made from cake bundt bowls ;-).

The curling rocks are used because they are easier to use and have less distance to travel.

Like the crokinole board, the play area of crokicurl has posts around the inner ring to make it a little more challenging.

It's actually not that hard to play, but you'll have to find a rink (or make your own):

• Each game requires either two teams of 2 or 4 players (if 4 players, each player gets one throw)

• Each team gets four rocks

• Each player takes a turn throwing a rock, starting clockwise and alternating teams and players

• Players are allowed to use their rocks to knock their opponent’s rocks out of play

• Given the number of teams that register, we try and run a "double Round Robin" tournament. Meaning each time, will play each time twice. Team with total number of wins is the winner.

• In the event of a tie, a tie-breaker round will run to determine the winning team. The losing team will automatically get second place.

Scoring points

• Each ring is worth different points: 

  • inside the outer blue ring is worth 5 points

  • inside the white ring (ours is second blue line) is worth 10 points

  • inside the red ring is worth 15 points 

  • inside the bullseye is worth 20 points (it must DROP IN!)

• If a player lands in the bullseye, the rock is removed and put aside and the team adds the 20 points to their final score

• If a rock is halfway between rings the team will get the points from the lower scoring ring

• If a rock is more than halfway outside of the outer ring it doesn’t count

• The team with the most points after throwing all four rocks wins!