Bottcher Runner-Up at 2018 GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 1

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Darren
Moulding

Second
Bradley
Thiessen

Lead
Karrick
Martin

Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) lost 6-5 to Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, NONT) in the Final of the GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 1, held November 6 - 11, 2018 in Thunder Bay, Ontario. To advance to the championship game, Bottcher won 5-2 over Glenn Howard (Penetanguishe, ON) in the semifinals of the 2018 GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 1 in Thunder Bay, Ontario; and won 5-1 over Rich Ruohonen (Chaska, USA) in the quarterfinals. of the 2018 GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 1 in Thunder Bay, Ontario;

Bottcher finished 3-1 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bottcher lost 5-4 to Jacobs, then responded with a 5-4 win over Howard. Bottcher won 8-1 against Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB), then won 7-4 against Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the GSOC Tour Challenge Tier 1, Bottcher take home 58.077 world rankings points along with the $15,000CDN prize, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 7th place overall with 370.639 total points. Bottcher ranks 6th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 172.470 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
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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

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