CHAMPION: Gushue Wins 2013 Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau

SKIP
Brad
Gushue

Third
Brett
Gallant

Second
Adam
Casey

Lead
Geoff
Walker

Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) won 6-3 over Rob Rumfeldt (Guelph, ON) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Gushue won 7-2 over Howard Rajala (Ottawa, ON) in the semifinals of the 2013 Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada; and won 3-2 over Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, ON) in the quarterfinals. of the 2013 Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada;

Gushue finished 4-0 in the 32 team Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau qualifying round, held October 24 - 27, 2013 at the Buckingham Curling Club in Buckingham, Canada. In their opening game, Gushue defeated Gary Rowe (Ottawa, ON) 7-5, then won 5-3 against Craig Kochan (Toronto, ON) and 6-4 against Wayne Tuck Jr. (Brantford, ON). Gushue won 4-2 against Brian Lewis (Ottawa, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau Championship title, Gushue earned 22.620 world rankings points along with the $11,000CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 7th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 249.605 total points. Gushue ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 101.980 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	7	0	0	1.000	4-0	3-0	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	47	38	21	8.09	4.47	3.62	5.11	3.62	1.58	1.24	1.28

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	19	28	0	2	0-0	4-0	3-0	1.47	0.00	0.41	0.00

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	28	10	21	4	0-0	1-1	1-2	0.36	0.75	0.82	0.25

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2010: Serge Reid
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2011: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Philippe Menard
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2012: Mark Dacey
Mark Dacey, Tommy Sullivan, Stephen Burgess, Andrew Gibson
Halifax, NS
2013: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Brett Gallant, Adam Casey, Geoff Walker
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2014: Mike McEwen
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2015: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Craig Savill, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2017: Rui Liu
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Harbin, CHN
2018: Scott McDonald
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Kingston, ON

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