Byrd3-2 at 2016 Challenge de Curling de Gatineau Open

Kingston, Ontario

SKIP
Kurtis
Byrd

Third
Kyle
Thompson

Second
Ben
Savage

Lead
Nick
Thompson

Games:	5
Record:	3W - 2L
PF/G:	6.39
PA/G:	5.28
Hammer Efficiency:	0.31
Steal Defense:	0.07
Force Efficiency:	0.45
Steal Efficiency:	0.23

Kurtis Byrd (Kingston, ON) finished 3-2 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Byrd lost 5-4 to Alex Berube (Mt-Bruno, QC), then responded with a 7-3 win over Steeve Gagnon (Montreal, QC). Byrd won 4-2 against Marc-Andre Chartrand (Rouyn Noranda, QC), then won 6-4 against Daniel Caron (Montreal, QC). Byrd went on to lose 5-2 against Colin Dow (Ottawa, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Byrd earned 0.821 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 131 spots the World Ranking Standings into 435th place overall with 0.821 total points. Byrd ranks 226th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.821 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

2016: Adam Freilich
Adam Freilich, Ariel Krasik-Geiger, Gabriel Kempenich, Jeff Lutz
Jerusalem, ISR
2017: Sylvain Dicaire
Ghislain Doyon, Sylvain Dicaire, Claude St-Germain, Kurtis Hanna
Val d'Or, QC
2018: Colin Dow
Colin Dow, Jordie Lyon-Hatcher, Brett Lyon-Hatcher, John Steski, R.J. Johnson
Ottawa, ON

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