You may have heard about Volume One’s initiative with the EC Curling Club to launch a new starter league on Monday nights this winter. Well, last night’s curling lesson (the first of three freebies) was a huge success as roughly 120+ people showed up to try out the game and grab a free beer from that night’s sponsor – Fat Tire Beer (New Belgium Brewing). The night started with a huge line of people out the door waiting to sign a waiver and play, and it was everything the curling expert volunteers could do to keep up.

We immediately had to expand the new league from 8 to 16 teams (which we hoped for) and there’s already have a waiting list of 3-4 more teams wanting to play as well (so like 20 total). In fact, the club is now looking to give us another partial night for the league, Sunday or Tuesday, so we can accommodate all the new interest.

So! If you were still thinking of coming to one of the free curling lesson nights on (Sunday Jan. 10 or Monday Jan. 11) you totally still should because there may end up being a whole additional night of curling! Check out the curling club's thoughts over on their blog, including a whole bunch of great pictures (like the one above).

We couldn't be happier about all this. Go winter 2010, yo.