[alnorth]

correction, its tied 4-4.

I kinda like the end of the 5th end, 2 rocks left when I turned it on, USA was up 4-1 but Japan had 5 rocks in scoring position, I was thinking "holy crap, how did they screw it up so bad!"

Apparently they thought the same thing, called one of their 2 1-minute time outs, the USA coach came down and told them what to do (limit the damage, they can cut three of Japan's stones off from scoring position). Placed it perfectly, Japan couldnt even knock it out, so they had to settle with just tossing one more into scoring position to score 3 instead of 5.