Thomas Runner-Up at 2018 Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena)

Toronto, Ontario

SKIP
Charley
Thomas

Third
Adam
Casey

Second
Patrick
Janssen

Lead
Fraser
Reid

Games:	7
Record:	5W - 2L
PF/G:	9.53
PA/G:	5.12
Hammer Efficiency:	0.58
Steal Defense:	0.17
Force Efficiency:	0.67
Steal Efficiency:	0.37

Charley Thomas (Toronto, ON) lost 7-3 to Scott McDonald (Kingston, ON) in the Final of the Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena), held October 18 - 21, 2018 at the Buckingham Curling Club in Buckingham, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Thomas won 7-2 over Mark Homan (Chelsea, QC) in the semifinals of the 2018 Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena) in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada; and won 4-2 over Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO) in the quarterfinals. of the 2018 Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena) in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada;

Thomas finished 3-1 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Thomas defeated Gaetan Mancini (Lausanne, SUI) 11-1, then won 6-1 against Jia Liang Zang (Harbin, CHN). Thomas went on to lose 6-3 against Michael Fournier (Montreal, QC). Thomas responded with a 7-3 win over Steve Allen (Ottawa, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Challenge de Curling de Gatineau (Arena), Thomas take home 31.722 world rankings points along with the $7,000CDN prize. For week 10 of the event schedule, Thomas did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Thomas ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2009: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Jean Gagnon
Gatineau, QC
2010: Serge Reid
Serge Reid, Francois Gionest, Simon Collin, Steeve Villeneuve
Saguenay, QC
2011: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Philippe Menard
Gatineau/Levis, QC
2012: Mark Dacey
Mark Dacey, Tommy Sullivan, Stephen Burgess, Andrew Gibson
Halifax, NS
2013: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Brett Gallant, Adam Casey, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2014: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
Winnipeg, MB
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
Rui Liu, Xiao Ming Xu, Dongxu Jiang, Jia Liang Zang
Harbin, CHN
2018: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Jonathan Beuk, Wesley Forget, Scott Chadwick
Kingston, ON

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