Hess Runner-Up at 2017 Latvia International Challenger

SKIP
Yves
Hess

Third
Rainer
Kobler

Second
Michael
Mueller

Lead
Fabian
Schmid

Yves Hess (Zug, SUI) lost 4-3 to Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN) in the Final of the Latvia International Challenger, held October 26 - 29, 2017 in Tukums, Latvia.

Hess finished 4-0 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hess defeated Harri Lill (Tallinn, EST) 6-5, then won 6-4 against Martins Truksans (Riga, LAT) and 5-3 against Janis Bremanis (Riga, LAT). Hess won 7-6 against Cameron Bryce (Stirling, SCO) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Latvia International Challenger, Hess take home 9.055 world rankings points along with the $1,189CDN prize, moving up 21 spots the World Ranking Standings into 93rd place overall with 42.308 total points. Hess ranks 99th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 13.718 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

2022: Martins Truksans
Martins Truksans, Janis Klive, Arnis Veidemanis, Sandris Buholcs
Riga, LAT
2021: Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce, Callum Kinnear, Mark Taylor, Robin McCall
Stirling, SCO
2019: Daniel Magnusson
Daniel Magnusson, Robin Ahlberg, Anton Regosa, Sebastian Jones
Karlstad, SWE
2018: Wille Makela
Wille Makela, Kalle Kiiskinen, Teemu Salo, Paavo Kuosmanen
Hyvinkaa, FIN
2017: Rasmus Stjerne
Rasmus Stjerne, Johnny Frederiksen, Mikkel Poulsen, Oliver Dupont
Hvidovre, DEN