Kapp5-1 at 2023 Grand Prix Bern Inter Curling Challenge

Fourth
Marc
Muskatewitz

SKIP
Benny
Kapp

Second
Felix
Messenzehl

Lead
Johannes
Scheuerl

Benny Kapp (Fuessen, GER) finished 5-1 in the 23-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kapp lost 8-6 to Christian Bangerter (Bern, SUI), then responded with a 7-3 win over Sergio Vez (San Sebastian, ESP). Kapp won 8-5 against Loris Caccivio (Basel, SUI), then won 6-2 against Martin Rios (Glarus, SUI) and 9-4 against Kyle Waddell (Hamilton, SCO). Kapp won 7-4 against Yves Stocker (Zug, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Grand Prix Bern Inter Curling Challenge, Kapp take home 22.000 world rankings points along with the $5,336CDN prize. Kapp move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of 21.625 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 39th overall with 105.518 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Kapp ranks 21st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 65.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	36	27	0	0.571	7-5	2-3	2-3	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	466	383	311	8.22	6.67	1.55	4.57	4.42	1.80	1.51	1.01

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	245	304	74	34	11-1	23-2	69-11	1.24	0.30	0.49	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	221	79	237	13	0-3	3-13	15-51	0.36	1.07	0.55	0.26

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