John Shuster (Duluth, USA) won 8-2 over Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan. of the 2019 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan; John Shuster (Duluth, USA) won 8-2 over Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan. Shuster lost
7-6 to
Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2019 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan; and won
7-2 over
Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB) in the quarterfinals.
Shuster finished 4-0 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Shuster defeated
Yoshiro Shimizu (Nagano, JPN) 11-1, then won
11-1 against
Keisaku Takada (Kitami, JPN) and
8-5 against
Calvert. Shuster won
6-5 against
Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Nagano, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.
With their third place finish at the Karuizawa International, Shuster earn
21.623 world rankings points and 6011CDN, moving up 3 spots the
World Ranking Standings into 20th place overall with
231.216 total points. Shuster ranks 28th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
118.630 points earned so far this season.
