A curling game is divided into ends — eight in most club games, ten at elite level. In each end only one team scores: one point for every stone closer to the centre of the house (the button) than the opponent’s closest stone. A blank end, with nothing in the house, scores nothing.
Standings are a win-loss record. Club leagues that play a fixed number of ends in a fixed time often allow ties and count them as points (2 for a win, 1 for a tie); others play an extra end.
Championship play usually ranks tied teams by head-to-head and then by the draw shot challenge (DSC): before games, each team throws stones to the button, and the average distance is a tiebreaker that does not depend on who a team happened to play.