Bronze for Shuster at 2019 Karuizawa International

Duluth, United States

SKIP
John
Shuster

Third
Christopher
Plys

Second
Matt
Hamilton

Lead
John
Landsteiner

Games:	7
Record:	6W - 1L
PF/G:	12.13
PA/G:	4.89
Hammer Efficiency:	0.67
Steal Defense:	0.05
Force Efficiency:	0.69
Steal Efficiency:	0.35

John Shuster (Duluth, USA) won 8-2 over Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan. of the 2019 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan; John Shuster (Duluth, USA) won 8-2 over Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan. Shuster lost 7-6 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2019 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan; and won 7-2 over Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB) in the quarterfinals.

Shuster finished 4-0 in the 15 team Karuizawa International qualifying round, held December 19 - 22, 2019 in , . In their opening game, Shuster defeated Yoshiro Shimizu (Nagano, JPN) 11-1, then won 11-1 against Keisaku Takada (Kitami, JPN) and 8-5 against Calvert. Shuster won 6-5 against Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Nagano, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Karuizawa International, Shuster earn 21.623 world rankings points and 6011CDN, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 20th place overall with 231.216 total points. Shuster ranks 28th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 118.630 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2020	6	1	0	0.857	2-0	2-0	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2020	47	57	23	12.13	4.89	7.23	6.17	3.62	1.97	1.35	0.21

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	21	40	1	0	1-0	4-0	9-0	1.90	0.05	0.67	0.05

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	26	17	22	1	0-0	1-1	6-4	0.65	0.85	0.69	0.35

2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers, Mike McEwen, Matt Wozniak, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, CAN
2017: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Tetsuro Shimizu, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Kosuke Morozumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Tom Brewster
Tom Brewster, Glen Muirhead, Ross Paterson, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Aberdeen, SCO
2015: David Murdoch
David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO
2014: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2013: Chang-Min Kim
Chang-Min Kim, Min-Chan Kim, Se-Hyun Sung, Young-Seon Seo, Eun Soo Oh
Gyeongbuk Uiseong, KOR

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