Smith

Perth, Great Britain

SKIP
Kyle
Smith

Third
Thomas
Muirhead

Second
Kyle
Waddell

Lead
Cameron
Smith

Games:	10
Record:	5W - 5L
PF/G:	6.38
PA/G:	7.34
Hammer Efficiency:	0.34
Steal Defense:	0.11
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.15

Kyle Smith (Perth, UK) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Smith finished 5-4 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Smith defeated Peter De Cruz (Geneva, SUI) 6-5, then went on to lose 6-4 against Kevin Koe (Calgary, CAN). Smith responded with a 6-5 win over Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Smith went on to lose 8-6 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Smith lost 11-5 to Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR) where Smith responded with a 7-6 win over Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA). Smith won 7-6 against Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN), then won 10-3 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Smith went on to lose 10-4 against John Shuster (Duluth, USA) in their final qualifying round match.

Smith earned 26.447 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 9th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 22.24 after improving upon their best so far this season. Smith ranks 16th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 193.881 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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