Pacific-Asia Curling Championships -- China

Beijing, China

SKIP
Qiang
Zou

Third
Zhi Yu
Wang

Second
Zhilin
Shao

Lead
Jingtao
Xu

Games:	10
Record:	9W - 1L
PF/G:	10.23
PA/G:	5.57
Hammer Efficiency:	0.55
Steal Defense:	0.22
Force Efficiency:	0.63
Steal Efficiency:	0.33

Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) went 8-0 in the 9 team qualifying round. In their opening game, Zou defeated SooHyuk Kim (Seoul, KOR) 8-6, then won 10-3 against Jason Chang (Hong Kong, HKG) and 9-2 against Randie Shen (Taipei, TPE). Zou won 9-5 against Yuta Matsumura (Sapporo, JPN). Zou won 9-5 against Viktor Kim (Almaty, KAZ). Zou won 13-1 against Nassar Alyafei (Doha, QAT). Zou won 8-6 against Scott Becker (Naseby, NZL). Zou won 8-6 against Jay Merchant (Sydney, AUS) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, Zou take home 19.594 world rankings points along with the $9CDN prize. Zou move up 14 spots after posting a net gain of 17.001 points improving upon their best 5 results so far this season, ranking 52th overall with 80.721 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Zou ranks 41th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 52.573 points earned so far this season.

--Profile:11292--Week:13--TeamID:122903--Last Year:[0.7|0.7]--Event Count:[5|5]--Rank:[66|52]--Points:[63.720|80.721|net:17.001]

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2019	9	1	0	0.900	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2019	88	90	49	10.23	5.57	4.66	5.23	3.98	1.96	1.40	0.80

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2019	49	68	15	5	3-0	5-0	16-4	1.39	0.31	0.55	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2019	39	22	34	2	1-0	0-1	6-8	0.56	0.87	0.63	0.33

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