Zou2-5 at 2019 Changan Ford International Curling Elite

Beijing, China

SKIP
Qiang
Zou

Third
Zhi Yu
Wang

Second
Jiafeng
Tian

Lead
Jingtao
Xu

Games:	7
Record:	2W - 5L
PF/G:	5.88
PA/G:	7.06
Hammer Efficiency:	0.23
Steal Defense:	0.25
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.26

Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) finished 2-5 in the 8 team Changan Ford International Curling Elite qualifying round, held December 5 - 10, 2019 in , . In their opening game, Zou defeated Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, USA) 6-1, then went on to lose 6-3 against Fredrik Nyman (Stockholm, SWE). Zou lost 7-4 to Andrin Schnider (St. Gallen, SUI). Zou lost 7-3 to Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR). Zou lost 6-3 to Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) where Zou responded with a 8-4 win over Sergei Glukhov (Sochi, RUS). Zou went on to lose 5-3 against Tanner Horgan (Winnipeg Beach, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

Zou earned 3.417 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 37th place overall with 122.242 total points. Zou ranks 48th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 71.770 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2020	2	5	0	0.286	1-0	0-1	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	30	36	5.88	7.06	-1.18	4.51	4.31	1.30	1.64	1.18

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	24	22	7	2	0-0	1-0	4-1	0.92	0.29	0.23	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	27	8	29	4	0-2	0-1	1-5	0.30	1.07	0.50	0.26

2019: Rich Ruohonen
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2017: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Romano Meier, Michael Brunner, Marcel Kaeufeler
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