Bottcher7-2 at 2013 Winter Universiade

Edmonton, Canada

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Mick
Lizmore

Second
Bradley
Thiessen

Lead
Karrick
Martin

Games:	11
Record:	8W - 3L
PF/G:	8.15
PA/G:	6.09
Hammer Efficiency:	0.44
Steal Defense:	0.18
Force Efficiency:	0.69
Steal Efficiency:	0.28

Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, CAN) finished 7-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bottcher defeated Kyle Smith (Perth, UK) 5-4, then won 10-2 against Xiuyue Ma (Harbin, CHN) and 10-4 against Markus Hoiberg (Oppdal, NOR). Bottcher won 7-6 against Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR), then won 7-1 against Italy's Marco Pascale and 8-5 against Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Bottcher went on to lose 10-3 against Christopher Plys (St. Paul, USA). Bottcher lost 9-5 to Mario Freiberger (Zug, SUI) where Bottcher responded with a 10-3 win over Oskar Eriksson (Lit, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

Bottcher earned 4.000 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Winter Universiade, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 27th place overall with 79.810 total points. Bottcher ranks 27th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 35.860 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	39	32	0	0.549	19-8	11-19	10-10	5-0	1-4

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	544	375	334	6.89	6.14	0.75	4.38	4.10	1.58	1.50	1.53

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	256	278	64	31	4-0	15-1	58-12	1.09	0.25	0.34	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	288	97	270	52	3-5	5-16	14-47	0.34	0.94	0.61	0.22

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