AlanMacNeill
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(Different Alan)
I am an official, but this is not an official ruling (please understand the difference )
It is correct that there is no penalty in the book beyond "Skip only throws one". However, the clause relating to deliberately acting against the spirit of curling gives latitude to remedy extreme poor sportsmanship situations.
The first time a team had the third deliver three, oops, stuff happens and the penalty in the book is that the skip throws just one...move on. If opposing skip calls it out to me, I would inform them of this remedy and there's not much else I can or should do.
The second time, when the opposing team's skip made notice of it, I'd tell the offending team's skip that they really need to keep closer attention, because they're making the same mistake over and over and it's really unfair to the other team. Keep in mind that officials really aren't there to "call fouls", they are there to intermediate disputes, and a polite "Dude...really?" to the offending skip is the appropriate resolution at this stage.
The third time (again, assuming the offended team protested), I would refer a recommendation to the Chief Umpire of the Event for sanctions, potentially including pulling players from the game for violating the spirit of curling rule. See page 33 of the current WCF rules (C10.g: The Chief Umpire may eject a player, coach or team official from a game for what is considered to be unacceptable conduct or language. The ejected person must leave the competition area and take no further part in that game. When a player is ejected from a game, an alternate player may not be used in that game, for that player.)
If I were the Chief Umpire of the Event...the Third would be getting to take a seat in the warm room for a while on the 3rd violation.
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