CHAMPION: Jacobs Wins Kioti Tractor Tour Challenge Tier 1

Sault Ste Marie, Northern Ontario

SKIP
Brad
Jacobs

Third
Marc
Kennedy

Second
E.J.
Harnden

Lead
Ryan
Harnden

Games:	7
Record:	6W - 1L
PF/G:	8.78
PA/G:	5.92
Hammer Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Defense:	0.09
Force Efficiency:	0.65
Steal Efficiency:	0.19

Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, NONT) won 6-4 over Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Jacobs won 7-3 over Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) in the semifinals of the Kioti Tractor Tour Challenge Tier 1 in Pictou County, Nova Scotia; and won 7-5 over Glenn Howard (Penetanguishene , ON) in the quarterfinals. of the Kioti Tractor Tour Challenge Tier 1 in Pictou County, Nova Scotia;

Jacobs finished 3-1 in the 15 team Kioti Tractor Tour Challenge Tier 1 qualifying round, held November 5 - 10 in , . In their opening game, Jacobs lost 9-4 to Bottcher, then responded with a 6-3 win over Jason Gunnlaugson (Winnipeg, MB). Jacobs won 6-3 against Yannick Schwaller (Bern, SUI), then won 7-2 against Matt Dunstone (Regina , SK) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Kioti Tractor Tour Challenge Tier 1 Championship title, Jacobs earned 81.085 world rankings points along with the $30,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 2nd place overall with 495.895 total points. Jacobs ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 239.612 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	6	1	0	0.857	4-1	2-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	49	43	29	8.78	5.92	2.86	4.69	3.88	1.87	1.53	1.43

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	23	38	2	3	3-0	2-0	5-0	1.65	0.09	0.50	0.09

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	26	5	27	4	0-1	0-2	0-3	0.19	1.04	0.65	0.19

2019: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
Sault Ste Marie, NONT
2018: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Ryan Fry, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
Sault Ste Marie, NONT
2017: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2016: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2015: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB

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