CHAMPION: Champ Wins 2023 KW Fall Classic

Toronto, Ontario

SKIP
Alex
Champ

Third
Charlie
Richard

Second
DJ
Ronaldson

Lead
Scott
Clinton

Games:	8
Record:	6W - 2L
PF/G:	9.15
PA/G:	6.10
Hammer Efficiency:	0.30
Steal Defense:	0.29
Force Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Efficiency:	0.46

Alex Champ (Toronto, ON) won 6-5 over Yves Stocker (Zug, SUI) in the Final of the KW Fall Classic, held September 14 - 17, 2023 at the K-W Granite Club in Waterloo, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Champ won 7-3 over Ian Dickie (Kitchener, ON) in the semifinals of the 2023 KW Fall Classic in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; and won 8-7 over James Craik (Forfar, SCO) in the quarterfinals.

Champ finished 3-2 in the 19-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Champ defeated Mark Kean (Woodstock, ON) 8-2, then went on to lose 7-5 against Craik. Champ lost 6-4 to Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) where Champ responded with a 8-1 win over Jordan McNamara (Ottawa, ON). Champ won 8-5 against Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the KW Fall Classic Championship title, Champ earned 22.500 world rankings points along with the $3,500CDN first prize cheque, moving up 12 spots the World Ranking Standings into 49th place overall with 84.079 total points. Champ ranks 30th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 24.188 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	19	23	0	0.452	0-1	1-9	1-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	308	201	234	6.53	7.60	-1.07	4.35	4.45	1.50	1.71	1.20

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	147	147	60	16	0-2	13-3	26-10	1.00	0.41	0.30	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	161	54	174	21	0-3	3-12	9-40	0.34	1.08	0.46	0.24

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