Curling Skips expectations of the Vice Skip

The Vice Skip:

Responsibilities: 

The vice is called upon to make every type of shot from guards to peels, from freezes to doubles. The vice skip must have the skills to throw any type of shot at any time. The vice is often asked to make the "kill" shot. This is the shot that seals the end. In addition to shot-making skills, the vice must have excellent 
knowledge of strategy, house management and posse's good spatial skills for line calls. 

This is the most difficult job on the team because the vice is expected to make flawless sweep calls on the skip's rocks- only two shots per end. In most cases, the vice is the most well rounded player on the team.

Profile: 

The vice skip must also be a true team player. Because their skill level parallels the skip, they must support and have confidence in the skip as the team leader. 

The third has very few delivery problems. 

The vice skip controls the Score Board

The vice skip of the scoring team is responsible for posting the score after each end. On 

the curling scoreboard, numbers 1 through 16 (possibly 17, 18, 19 etc.) are painted 

horizontally from left to right. These numbers represent the rocks scored. At one end of 

the scoreboard, there is a stack of individual numbers from 1 to 10. These represent the 

ends and are hung either over or under the painted numbers. Since teams throw different 

colored rocks, the ends are hung above or below the painted numbers depending on color. 

In curling, the rocks scored are posted cumulatively, meaning two rocks scored in the 

second end are added to the what ever was scored in the first end (if any)