Ontario's Greg Balsdon Runner-Up at 2012 KW Fall Classic

Ontario

SKIP
Greg
Balsdon

Third
Mark
Bice

Second
Steve
Bice

Lead
Jamie
Farnell

Games:	8
Record:	5W - 3L
PF/G:	7.64
PA/G:	6.00
Hammer Efficiency:	0.36
Steal Defense:	0.25
Force Efficiency:	0.79
Steal Efficiency:	0.26

Ontario's Greg Balsdon lost 6-3 to Mark Kean (Toronto, ON) in the Final of the KW Fall Classic, held September 20 - 23, 2012 in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. To advance to the championship game, Ontario's Greg Balsdon won 5-2 over Ontario's Jake Higgs in the semifinals of the 2012 KW Fall Classic in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario; and won 4-3 over Ontario's Rob Rumfeldt in the quarterfinals.

Ontario's Greg Balsdon finished 3-2 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ontario's Greg Balsdon defeated Wes Johnson (Toronto, ON) 6-5, then went on to lose 6-5 against Cory Heggestad (Orillia, ON). Ontario's Greg Balsdon responded with a 9-3 win over Ontario's Scott McDonald. Ontario's Greg Balsdon went on to lose 7-2 against Ontario's Jake Higgs. Ontario's Greg Balsdon responded with a 8-1 win over Mike Bryson (Kingston, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the KW Fall Classic, Ontario's Greg Balsdon take home 4.760 world rankings points along with the $1,800CDN prize, remaining in 23rd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 53.661 total points. Ontario's Greg Balsdon ranks 21st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 13.635 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

2024: John Epping
John Epping, Jake Horgan, Tanner Horgan, Ian McMillan
Toronto, ON
2023: Alex Champ
Alex Champ, Charlie Richard, DJ Ronaldson, Scott Clinton
Toronto, ON
2022: Michael Fournier
Michael Fournier, Kevin Flewwelling, Sean Harrison, Zander Elmes
Toronto, ON
2021: Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte, Robin Brydone, Duncan McFadzean, Euan Kyle , Greg Drummond
Stirling, SCO
2020: Paul Moffatt
Paul Moffatt, Ben Shane, John Gabel, Kyle Forster
Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
2019: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Masaki Iwai, Ryotaro Shukuya, Kosuke Morozumi
Nagano, JPN
2018: Alexey Timofeev
Alexey Timofeev, Alexey Stukalskiy, Artur Razhabov, Artem Shmakov, Sergei Glukhov
St. Petersburg, RUS
2017: Matthew Hall
Matthew Hall, Jeff Wanless, Joey Hart, David Hart
Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
2016: Richard Krell
Richard Krell, Evan Lilly, Jonah Mondloch, Robert Currie
Waterloo, ON
2015: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, De Xin Ba, Xiao Ming Xu
Harbin, CHN
2014: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Brett Dekoning, Scott Brandon, Shane Konings
London, ON
2013: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Brett Dekoning, Connor Duhaime, Simon Barrick
London, ON
2012: Mark Kean
Mark Kean, Travis Fanset, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2011: Rob Rumfeldt
Rob Rumfeldt, Adam Spencer, Scott Hodgson, Greg Robinson
Guelph, ON
2010: Greg Balsdon
Greg Balsdon, Chris Ciasnocha, Tyler Morgan, Jamie Farnell
Kingston, ON
2009: Dale Matchett
Dale Matchett, Ryan Werenich, Jeff Gorda, Shawn Kaufman
Bradford, ON
2008: Dale Matchett
Dale Matchett, Ryan Werenich, Jeff Gorda, Shawn Kaufman
Churchill, ON

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