Matthew Blandford (Cold Lake, AB) finished 1-3 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Blandford lost 6-3 to Brock Virtue (Calgary, AB), droppimg another game, 7-3 to Randy Woytowich (Saskatoon, SK) where Blandford responded with a 9-2 win over Jon Rennie (Calgary, AB). Blandford went on to lose 8-1 against Alexey Tselousov (Moscow, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.
 
. For week 9 of the event schedule, Blandford did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 496th to 500th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 0.000 total points. Blandford ranks 214th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 points earned so far this season.