CHAMPION: Bottcher Wins 2023 Saville Shootout

Calgary, Alberta

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Marc
Kennedy

Second
Brett
Gallant

Lead
Ben
Hebert

Games:	8
Record:	7W - 1L
PF/G:	10.20
PA/G:	4.31
Hammer Efficiency:	0.48
Steal Defense:	0.08
Force Efficiency:	0.73
Steal Efficiency:	0.27

Brendan Bottcher (Calgary, AB) won 4-2 over Catlin Schneider (Victoria, BC) in the Final of the Saville Shootout, held September 8 - 11, 2023 at the Saville Community Sports Centre in Edmonton, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Bottcher won 5-3 over Johnson Tao (Edmonton, AB) in the semifinals of the 2023 Saville Shootout in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and won 9-0 over Aaron Sluchinski (Airdrie, AB) in the quarterfinals. of the 2023 Saville Shootout in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;

Bottcher finished 4-1 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bottcher defeated Kenan Wipf (Calgary, AB) 7-2, then won 7-1 against Jacob Libbus (Okotoks, AB) and 7-4 against Schneider. Bottcher won 9-3 against Scott Webb (Grande Prairie, AB). Bottcher went on to lose 7-4 against Ryan Wiebe (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Saville Shootout Championship title, Bottcher earned 33.750 world rankings points along with the $6,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 4th place overall with 395.750 total points. Bottcher ranks 15th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 33.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	53	21	0	0.716	11-4	9-1	3-3	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	547	445	294	8.14	5.37	2.76	4.64	3.64	1.75	1.48	1.72

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	260	332	34	51	15-0	19-1	61-3	1.28	0.13	0.45	0.11

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	287	113	260	43	4-3	4-16	17-48	0.39	0.91	0.61	0.26

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2013: Kevin Martin
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2012: Jamie King
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2011: Randy Ferbey
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2004: Randy Ferbey
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