CHAMPION: McDonald Wins 2024 Performance Kia Charity Open

SKIP
Jordon
McDonald

Third
Dallas
Burgess

Second
Elias
Huminicki

Lead
Cameron
Olafson

Jordon McDonald (Winnipeg, MB) won 7-2 over Krista McCarville (Thunder Bay, NO) in the Final of the Performance Kia Charity Open, held January 5 - 7, 2024 at the Port Arthur Curling Club in Thunder Bay, Canada. To advance to the championship game, McDonald won 7-0 over Brian Adams Jr. (Thunder Bay, NO) in the semifinals of the 2024 Performance Kia Charity Open in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada; and won 7-2 over Ben Mikkelsen (Thunder Bay, NO) in the quarterfinals. of the 2024 Performance Kia Charity Open in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada;

McDonald finished 3-1 in the 14-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, McDonald defeated Ben Grant (Thunder Bay , NO) 7-3, then won 6-3 against Zach Warkentin (Thunder Bay, NO) and 4-1 against Bryan Burgess (Thunder Bay, NO). McDonald went on to lose 7-6 against Adams Jr. in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Performance Kia Charity Open Championship title, McDonald earned 3.750 world rankings points along with the $3,000CDN first prize cheque. McDonald move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 1.5 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 49th overall with 69.344 total points on the World Ranking Standings. McDonald ranks 47th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 57.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	49	16	0	0.754	8-1	3-2	5-1	1-0	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	422	374	221	8.86	5.24	3.63	5.12	3.55	1.73	1.47	1.33

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	193	241	45	22	7-1	18-2	45-4	1.25	0.23	0.41	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	229	133	176	34	3-2	14-9	16-36	0.58	0.77	0.59	0.35

2024: Jordon McDonald
Jordon McDonald, Dallas Burgess, Elias Huminicki, Cameron Olafson , William Lyburn
Winnipeg, MB
2012: Al Hackner
Al Hackner, Kory Carr, Kristofer Leupen, Gary Champagne
Thunder Bay, NO
2011: Colin Koivula
Colin Koivula, Eric Theriault, Justin Whitehurst, Jordan Potts
Thunder Bay, NO
2010: Craig Brown
Craig Brown, John Shuster, Greg Johnson, Derrick Casper
Madison, WI
2005: John Salo
John Salo
,

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