Thompson2-3 at 2018 Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena)

SKIP
Stuart
Thompson

Third
Colten
Steele

Second
Travis
Colter

Lead
Taylor
Ardiel

Stuart Thompson (Dartmouth, NS) finished 2-3 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Thompson defeated Greg Smith (St. John's, NL) 7-1, then won 7-5 against John Epping (Toronto, ON). Thompson went on to lose 8-5 against Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN). Thompson lost 5-4 to Jia Liang Zang (Harbin, CHN). Thompson lost 8-3 to Jean-Sebastien Roy (Saguenay, QC) in their final qualifying round match.

Thompson earned 4.326 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Thompson gained -2.567 points improving upon their best 4 events, though dropped 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 33rdplace overall with 114.380 total points. Thompson ranks 28th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 59.241 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

2009: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Jean Gagnon
Gatineau, QC
2010: Serge Reid
Serge Reid, Francois Gionest, Simon Collin, Steeve Villeneuve
Saguenay, QC
2011: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Philippe Menard
Gatineau/Levis, QC
2012: Mark Dacey
Mark Dacey, Tommy Sullivan, Stephen Burgess, Andrew Gibson
Halifax, NS
2013: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Brett Gallant, Adam Casey, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2014: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
Winnipeg, MB
2015: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Craig Savill, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2017: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Xiao Ming Xu, Dongxu Jiang, Jia Liang Zang
Harbin, CHN
2018: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Jonathan Beuk, Wesley Forget, Scott Chadwick
Kingston, ON

Team Marco Hoesli (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) took down the world number one and two ranked teams to secure the first title of the season.

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