CHAMPION: Liu Wins 2017 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic

Harbin, China

SKIP
Rui
Liu

Third
Xiao Ming
Xu

Second
Dongxu
Jiang

Lead
Jia Liang
Zang

Games:	6
Record:	6W - 0L
PF/G:	8.57
PA/G:	5.48
Hammer Efficiency:	0.56
Steal Defense:	0.13
Force Efficiency:	0.67
Steal Efficiency:	0.37

Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) won 6-2 over Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB) in the Final of the Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic, held October 6 - 9, 2017 at the Crestwood Curling Club in Edmonton, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Liu won 7-6 over Adam Casey (Regina, SK) in the semifinals of the 2017 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and won 5-4 over Reid Carruthers (Winnipeg, MB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2017 Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;

Liu finished 3-0 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Liu defeated Jason Ackerman (Regina, SK) 5-4, then won 8-7 against John Morris (Vernon, BC) and 5-0 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic Championship title, Liu earned 57.641 world rankings points along with the $12,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 9 spots the World Ranking Standings into 16th place overall with 247.755 total points. Liu ranks 6th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 115.222 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: Evan Van Amsterdam
Evan Van Amsterdam, Jason Ginter, Sterling Middleton, Parker Konschuh, Darren Moulding
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2017: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Xiao Ming Xu, Dongxu Jiang, Jia Liang Zang , Yi Lei
Harbin, CHN
2016: Steve Laycock
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Saskatoon, SK
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Calgary, AB
2014: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2013: Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin, David Nedohin, Marc Kennedy, Ben Hebert
Edmonton, AB

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