Dunstone8-0 at 2018 Qinghai Curling Elite

SKIP
Matt
Dunstone

Third
Braeden
Moskowy

Second
Catlin
Schneider

Lead
Dustin
Kidby

Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK) finished 8-0 in the 9 team Qinghai Curling Elite qualifying round, held December 14 - 19, 2018 in , . In their opening game, Dunstone defeated Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS) 5-3, then won 8-2 against Mingjie Yuan (Beijing, CHN) and 6-1 against Glen Muirhead (Perth, SCO). Dunstone won 8-7 against Andrew Stopera (Chaska, USA), then won 8-6 against Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE) and 6-1 against Weihaoping Wang (Beijing, CHN). Dunstone won 6-4 against Jan Hess (Zug, SUI), then won 8-4 against Daniel Magnusson (Karlstad, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Qinghai Curling Elite Championship title, Dunstone earned 27.930 world rankings points along with the $20,078CDN first prize cheque. Dunstone move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 20.01 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 11th overall with 317.634 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Dunstone ranks 9th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 252.284 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	10	0	0	1.000	4-0	4-0	1-0	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	73	66	36	9.04	4.93	4.11	4.79	3.29	1.89	1.50	1.92

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	37	48	6	9	1-0	8-0	6-1	1.30	0.16	0.54	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	36	18	30	5	0-0	1-2	4-7	0.50	0.83	0.53	0.33

2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Braeden Moskowy, Catlin Schneider, Dustin Kidby
Regina, SK
2017: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Romano Meier, Michael Brunner, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI

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