CHAMPION: Shuster Wins 2020 USA Curling National Championship

Duluth, United States

SKIP
John
Shuster

Third
Christopher
Plys

Second
Matt
Hamilton

Lead
John
Landsteiner

Games:	11
Record:	11W - 0L
PF/G:	10.12
PA/G:	4.70
Hammer Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Defense:	0.07
Force Efficiency:	0.71
Steal Efficiency:	0.26

John Shuster (Duluth, USA) won 8-6 over Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, USA) in the Final

Shuster finished 9-0 in the 10 team USA Curling National Championship qualifying round, held February 8 - 15, 2020 in , . In their opening game, Shuster defeated Dominik Maerki (Chaska, MN) 8-3, then won 10-1 against Steven Birklid (Mountlake Terrace, WA) and 7-4 against Ruohonen. Shuster won 8-4 against Todd Birr (Ham Lake, MN), then won 10-9 against Korey Dropkin (Chaska, USA) and 9-3 against Kyle Kakela (Rolla, ND). Shuster won 8-3 against Chase Sinnett (Medfield, MA), then won 1-0 against Jed Brundidge (West St. Paul, MN) and 7-4 against Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the USA Curling National Championship Championship title, Shuster earned 46.683 world rankings points. Shuster move up 7 spots after posting a net gain of 42.143 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 19th overall with 181.864 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Shuster ranks 19th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 181.864 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2020	11	0	0	1.000	6-0	4-0	2-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2020	83	84	39	10.12	4.70	5.42	5.54	3.73	1.83	1.26	0.72

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	41	71	3	3	5-0	4-0	11-0	1.73	0.07	0.53	0.07

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	42	13	36	3	0-0	1-0	0-8	0.31	0.86	0.71	0.26

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