By Allan Galbraith
The format for the five teams playing the Men’s Graded Fours on Saturday was four rounds of ten ends. Byes caused by the uneven number of teams counted as a win.
After two rounds, Bruce Henderson’s four, with two played wins and a bye to come, already looked like possible winners, however they were beaten in a tight third game by the team skipped by Allan Brider. Other results meant that all four games needed to be played to find the winner.
At the end of play three teams each had three wins (including byes) and it took a countback of ends and differentials to confirm the winning team as Bruce Henderson (s), Isi Taito (3), Kevin McAlister (2) and Neil Hargreaves (lead). This is the same team that won the event last season, except that Kevin replaced Andrew Barclay.