Brand

Baden, Switzerland

SKIP
Nicola
Brand

Third
Simon
Rauchenstein

Second
Malcolm
Bonzon

Lead
Gian
Loritz

Games:	5
Record:	1W - 4L
PF/G:	6.00
PA/G:	10.29
Hammer Efficiency:	0.38
Steal Defense:	0.18
Force Efficiency:	0.31
Steal Efficiency:	0.11

Nicola Brand (Baden, SUI) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, failed to advance to the playoff round, losing in the tiebreaker round, Brand finished 0-3 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Brand lost 7-6 to Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE), droppimg another game, 9-3 to Manuel Jermann (Basel, SUI). Brand lost 9-5 to Andrew Symonds (St. John's , NL) in their final qualifying round match.

Brand earned 1.463 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Brand move up 68 spots after posting a net gain of 1.451 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 257th overall with 1.923 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Brand ranks 198th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.876 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	3	10	0	0.231	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2026	95	61	85	6.42	8.95	-2.53	4.21	5.05	1.53	1.77	0.74

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	45	52	11	3	2-0	2-0	9-2	1.16	0.24	0.31	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	50	9	74	4	0-3	0-6	2-14	0.18	1.48	0.41	0.14

2025: Wouter Gosgens
Wouter Gosgens, Laurens Hoekman, Jaap van Dorp, Tobias van den Hurk, Alexander Magan
Zoetermeer, NED
2024: Marco Hoesli
Philipp Hoesli, Marco Hoesli, Simon Gloor, Justin Hausherr , Rolf Hoesli
Glarus, SUI
2023: James Craik
James Craik, Mark Watt, Angus Bryce, Blair Haswell
Forfar, SCO
2022: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Mattia Giovanella
Trentino, ITA
2021: Yves Stocker
Philipp Hoesli, Yves Stocker, Marco Hefti, Justin Hausherr
Glarus, SUI
2019: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Simone Gonin
Pinerolo, ITA
2018: Amos Mosaner
Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Andrea Pilzer, Daniele Ferrazza
Trentino, ITA

Jacobs wins Olympic Trials

Calgary's Brad Jacobs (Photo: Curling Canada/Andrew Klaver) defeats Winnipeg's Matt Dunstone 6-5, winning 2 games to 0 in a best-of-three final at the Montana's Canadian Olympic Curling Trials in Halifax, N.

Kubota Challenge: Gord Bamford vs Brad Gushue

EXTRA EXTRA END PODCAST: E20: Two-time U.S. Olympian Jessica...

A quick break for the Memorial Day holiday and we're back with our guest and new USA Curling Womenâs National Team & Juniors Director Jessica Schultz.... (read more)
MIKE THE CURLING GUY: Doing Jello Shots with my Kids...

I am in week 3 of isolation/quarantine/home schooling and getting a little squirrel-y. Personal hygiene has become optional. The kids have watched the entire... (read more)
WORLD CURLING REPORT: November 27th, 2019

On today's World Curling Report...we recap Day 1 of the 2019 Canada Cup. (read more)
FROM THE HACK: From the Hack Podcast - November...

On this week's podcast we focus on the Canada Cup with past champion Reid Carruthers (04:09), Adam Kingsbury - former coach of Team Homan and Team Jacobs (11:53)... (read more)
STONE + STRAW: S02:EP06 - Jason Gunnlaugson

Host John Cullen travels to Thunder Bay, Ontario, for the Tour Challenge to interview Winnipeg's own Jason Gunnlaugson. Though Gunnlaugson has yet to win a... (read more)