Ulsrud Runner-Up at Curling Masters Champery

Oppdal, Norway

SKIP
Thomas
Ulsrud

Third
Steffen
Walstad

Second
Markus
Hoiberg

Lead
Magnus
Vaagberg

Games:	7
Record:	6W - 1L
PF/G:	7.84
PA/G:	5.88
Hammer Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Defense:	0.20
Force Efficiency:	0.57
Steal Efficiency:	0.35

Thomas Ulsrud (Oppdal, NOR) lost 9-4 to Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Ulsrud won 5-4 over Yannick Schwaller (Bern, SUI) in the semifinals of the Curling Masters Champery in Champery, Switzerland; and won 7-2 over Ross Whyte (Stirling, SCO) in the quarterfinals. of the Curling Masters Champery in Champery, Switzerland;

Ulsrud finished 4-0 in the 20 team Curling Masters Champery qualifying round, held October 17 - 20 in , . In their opening game, Ulsrud defeated Jan Hess (Zug, SUI) 6-5, then won 5-3 against Andrin Schnider (St. Gallen, SUI) and 5-1 against Marco Hoesli (Glarus, SUI). Ulsrud won 8-6 against David Sik (Czech Republic) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Curling Masters Champery, Ulsrud take home 34.526 world rankings points along with the $9,306CDN prize. Ulsrud move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of 15.273 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 19th overall with 230.839 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Ulsrud ranks 17th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 76.811 points earned so far this season.

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

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2020	51	40	30	7.84	5.88	1.96	5.10	3.73	1.54	1.58	1.18

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	25	30	7	3	1-0	0-0	10-2	1.20	0.28	0.50	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	26	10	23	3	0-1	0-1	1-4	0.38	0.88	0.57	0.35

2019: Jaap van Dorp
Wouter Gosgens, Jaap van Dorp, Laurens Hoekman, Carlo Glasbergen
Zoetermeer, NED
2018: Peter De Cruz
Benoit Schwarz, Sven Michel, Peter De Cruz, Valentin Tanner
Geneve, SUI
2017: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2016: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2015: James Grattan
James Grattan, Tommy Sullivan, Stephen Burgess, Jamie Korab
Oromocto , NB
2014: Tom Brewster
Tom Brewster, Glen Muirhead, Ross Paterson, Hammy McMillan Jr., Thomas Muirhead
Aberdeen, UK
2013: James Grattan
James Grattan, Jason Roach, Darren Roach, Josh Barry
Oromocto, NB
2012: Marcus Hasselborg
Marcus Hasselborg, Peder Folke, Andreas Prytz, Anton Sandstrom
, SWE
2011: Peter De Cruz
Benoit Schwarz, Peter De Cruz, Gilles Vuille, Valentin Tanner
, SUI

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