Dropkin4-8 at 2025 BKT Tires World Men's Curling Championship

Duluth, United States

SKIP
Korey
Dropkin

Third
Andrew
Stopera

Second
Mark
Fenner

Lead
Thomas
Howell

Games:	12
Record:	4W - 8L
PF/G:	6.11
PA/G:	7.31
Hammer Efficiency:	0.35
Steal Defense:	0.18
Force Efficiency:	0.39
Steal Efficiency:	0.17

Korey Dropkin (Duluth, USA) finished 4-8 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dropkin defeated Joel Retornaz (Cembra, ITA) 7-6, then went on to lose 8-2 against Xiao Ming Xu (BEI JING, CHN). Dropkin responded with a 12-7 win over Yannick Schwaller (Geneve, SUI). Dropkin went on to lose 7-6 against Magnus Ramsfjell (Trondheim, NOR). Dropkin responded with a 7-1 win over Mathias Genner (Kitzbuehel, AUT). Dropkin went on to lose 7-6 against Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Dropkin lost 7-1 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad , SWE) where Dropkin responded with a 9-6 win over Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN). Dropkin went on to lose 8-6 against Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO). Dropkin lost 5-3 to Hyojun Kim (Uiseong, KOR). Dropkin lost 9-4 to Marc Muskatewitz (Fuessen, GER). Dropkin lost 8-3 to Brad Jacobs (Edmonton, CAN) in their final qualifying round match.

Dropkin earned 16.500 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Dropkin gained 3 points improving upon their best 8 events, though dropped 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 12thplace overall with 215.500 total points. Dropkin ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 215.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	52	41	0	0.559	13-6	9-6	5-4	2-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	694	508	453	7.32	6.53	0.79	4.45	4.05	1.64	1.61	1.50

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	336	379	78	54	10-1	23-2	77-11	1.13	0.23	0.39	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	358	129	375	50	3-7	14-21	7-88	0.36	1.05	0.48	0.24

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