CHAMPION: Dacey Wins 2012 Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau

SKIP
Mark
Dacey

Third
Tommy
Sullivan

Second
Stephen
Burgess

Lead
Andrew
Gibson

Mark Dacey (Halifax, NS) won 7-6 over Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) in the Final of the Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau, held October 25 - 28, 2012 at the Buckingham Curling Club in Buckingham, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Dacey won 5-4 over Greg Balsdon (Toronto, ON) in the semifinals of the 2012 Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada; and won 8-7 over Mark Kean (Toronto, ON) in the quarterfinals.

Dacey finished 4-0 in the 28-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dacey defeated Pierre Charette (Buckingham, PQ) 6-1, then won 7-4 against John Epping (Toronto, ON) and 7-4 against Howard Rajala (Ottawa, ON). Dacey won 6-1 against Jamie Murphy (Halifax, NS) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau Championship title, Dacey earned 28.860 world rankings points along with the $10,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 39 spots the World Ranking Standings into 31st place overall with 46.640 total points. Dacey ranks 13th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 42.090 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2009: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Jean Gagnon
Gatineau, QC
2010: Serge Reid
Serge Reid, Francois Gionest, Simon Collin, Steeve Villeneuve
Saguenay, QC
2011: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Philippe Menard
Gatineau/Levis, QC
2012: Mark Dacey
Mark Dacey, Tommy Sullivan, Stephen Burgess, Andrew Gibson
Halifax, NS
2013: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Brett Gallant, Adam Casey, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2014: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
Winnipeg, MB
2015: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Craig Savill, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2017: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Xiao Ming Xu, Dongxu Jiang, Jia Liang Zang
Harbin, CHN
2018: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Jonathan Beuk, Wesley Forget, Scott Chadwick
Kingston, ON

Sudbury's Jake and Tanner Horgan will ply their trade elsewhere next season as John Epping and Ian MacMillan explore options for the future.

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