Shuster5-7 at 2023 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Men's Curling Championship

SKIP
John
Shuster

Third
Christopher
Plys

Second
Matt
Hamilton

Lead
John
Landsteiner

John Shuster (Duluth, USA) finished 5-7 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Shuster lost 8-5 to Magnus Ramsfjell (Lillehammer, NOR), droppimg another game, 11-6 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Shuster lost 6-5 to Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) where Shuster responded with a 10-8 win over Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Shuster won 11-5 against ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR). Shuster went on to lose 10-8 against Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO). Shuster responded with a 10-4 win over Ugurcan Karagoz (Erzurum, TUR). Shuster went on to lose 11-4 against Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA). Shuster lost 9-6 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN). Shuster lost 12-9 to Yannick Schwaller (Geneva, SUI) where Shuster responded with a 12-4 win over Sixten Totzek (Baden Baden, GER). Shuster won 8-3 against Anton Hood (Naseby, NZL) in their final qualifying round match.

Shuster earned 20.625 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Shuster move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 18.75 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 13th overall with 188.250 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Shuster ranks 13th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 188.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	47	26	0	0.644	11-8	12-7	2-1	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	544	473	350	8.69	6.43	2.26	4.80	4.15	1.81	1.55	1.05

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	272	353	81	30	13-1	29-3	66-16	1.30	0.30	0.45	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	272	120	269	27	2-2	9-17	21-59	0.44	0.99	0.54	0.28

Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner (Photo: Stephen Fisher/World Curling) are semifinal bound after picking up an eighth victory in Fredericton.

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