Oh well

Well - our first game didn't get off to a great start. The ice is super straight and falls on the outsides. The first end was going okay - we were looking at giving them 2. Derek tried a soft weight hit and roll on his first that ended up being too soft - tapped one of their guards in. Their skip drew in - so they were sitting 4. Derek tried a double and roll - but we only got one and rolled out. Ouch - never a great thing to spot the other team 4 in the first end. Second end went a lot better - unfortunately we left Derek's first rock in a bad spot - it had run really straight and was wide open and was in front of the tee. The other skip made a really nice hit and roll to the button - impossible to draw to that - all that was left was a long double off of a guard - but that risked giving them 3 (if it picked off our rock that was sitting second). So we opted to be conservative and throw the rock away. Down 5 - ugh.
But we kept it going - and played well the rest of the game. Tied it up in the 10th. Got our corner guards up, had a couple of nose hits on the guards - made two great come arounds on vice's rocks - it does curl inside to out (the ice must be domed). They tried the runback on their skip's first, but just peeled the guard that was covering our two. We tapped up the other guards on the other side with Derek's first. They tried the double on our open ones - almost missed both, but picked off the top one. Draw in for 3 to tie.
Extra end got set up okay - we tried to tap up a tight guard and unfortunately it overcurled and ticked over our own guard - that was a bad break. Derek made a pistol on his last - but the skip still had a draw down to it to win the game. We made a great comeback, but an L is unfortunately still an L.
We had some luck not go our way - one of mine picked, one of theirs picked (when it was going to miss) and made the shot, and their skip's last in the 9th totally missed the open stone they were trying to hit, ended up glancing the one of ours that was frozen on theirs in the top 12 and tapping theirs into the button - whatever... Derek tried a runback, but it overcurled
Ok - got that crappy play from the first end out of our system. On to the next...