Thompson

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

SKIP
Stuart
Thompson

Third
Colten
Steele

Second
Cameron
MacKenzie

Lead
Travis
Colter

Stuart Thompson (Dartmouth, NS) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Thompson finished 4-3 in the 8 team Deloitte Nova Scotia Tankard qualifying round, held January 20 - 26 at the Dartmouth Curling Club in Dartmouth, Canada. In their opening game, Thompson defeated Brent MacDougall (Halifax, NS) 8-4, then won 9-5 against Andrew Gibson (Nova Scotia) and 9-8 against Alan O'Leary (Halifax, NS). Thompson went on to lose 8-7 against Kendal Thompson (Halifax, NS). Thompson lost 9-8 to Matthew Manuel (Halifax, NS) where Thompson responded with a 7-3 win over Chad Stevens (Truro, NS). Thompson went on to lose 11-4 against Jamie Murphy (Halifax, NS) in their final qualifying round match.

Thompson earned 2.363 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Thompson gained -6.386 points improving upon their best 8 events, though dropped 3 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 58thplace overall with 79.616 total points. Thompson ranks 59th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 70.867 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2020	4	4	0	0.500	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	75	58	56	7.73	7.47	0.27	4.80	4.53	1.61	1.65	0.67

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	39	39	19	3	1-1	3-0	5-5	1.00	0.49	0.25	0.28

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	36	19	37	2	1-0	1-2	3-10	0.53	1.03	0.48	0.31

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