CHAMPION: Gushue Wins 2017 GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 1

SKIP
Brad
Gushue

Third
Mark
Nichols

Second
Brett
Gallant

Lead
Geoff
Walker

Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) won 9-1 over Steffen Walstad (Oppdal, NOR) in the Final of the GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 1, held September 5 - 10, 2017 in Regina, Saskatchewan. To advance to the championship game, Gushue won 5-2 over Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, ON) in the semifinals of the 2017 GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 1 in Regina, Saskatchewan; and won 7-5 over Steve Laycock (Saskatoon, SK) in the quarterfinals.

Gushue finished 4-0 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gushue defeated Glenn Howard (Islington, ON) 8-1, then won 6-1 against John Shuster (Duluth, USA) and 8-4 against Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB). Gushue won 8-3 against Peter De Cruz (Geneva, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 1 Championship title, Gushue earned 74.729 world rankings points along with the $20,000CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 2nd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 595.261 total points. Gushue ranks 4th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 74.729 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

2025: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr., Kyle Waddell, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO
2024: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Stirling, SCO
2023: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Mattia Giovanella
Trentino, ITA
2022: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2019: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
Sault Ste Marie, NO
2018: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Ryan Fry, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
Sault Ste Marie, NO
2017: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker , Jules Owchar
St. John's, NL
2016: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2015: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB

Winnipeg's Matt Dunstone (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) will be the number two seed in the men's playoff round at the KIOTI GSOC Tahoe beginning Saturday.

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