Karatas

Erzurum, Turkey

SKIP
Alican
Karatas

Third
Melik
Senol

Second
Ugurcan
Karagoz

Lead
Muhammet Oguz
Zengin

Games:	8
Record:	4W - 4L
PF/G:	6.76
PA/G:	6.34
Hammer Efficiency:	0.17
Steal Defense:	0.11
Force Efficiency:	0.48
Steal Efficiency:	0.30

Alican Karatas (Erzurum, TUR) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Karatas finished 4-3 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Karatas lost 10-7 to Gyeorgy Nagy (Budapest, HUN), then responded with a 9-3 win over James Pougher (Deeside, WAL). Karatas went on to lose 6-3 against Tadas Vyskupaitis (Vilnius, LTU). Karatas responded with a 9-8 win over Timothy Verreycken (Brussels, BEL). Karatas went on to lose 8-2 against Rasmus Stjerne (Copenhagen, DEN). Karatas responded with a 8-1 win over Tomas Tisler (Ljublijiana, SLO). Karatas won 6-2 against Tomasz Ziolo (Katowice, POL) in their final qualifying round match.

Karatas earned 1.823 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 246 spots the World Ranking Standings into 353rd place overall with 1.823 total points. Karatas ranks 253rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.823 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

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