CHAMPION: Schwaller Wins 2020 Curling Masters Champery

Bern, Switzerland

SKIP
Yannick
Schwaller

Third
Michael
Brunner

Second
Romano
Meier

Lead
Marcel
Kaeufeler

Games:	6
Record:	5W - 1L
PF/G:	11.00
PA/G:	4.75
Hammer Efficiency:	0.39
Steal Defense:	0.21
Force Efficiency:	0.64
Steal Efficiency:	0.38

Yannick Schwaller (Bern, SUI) won 7-2 over Bjorn Jungen (Adelboden, SUI) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Schwaller won 7-6 over Joel Retornaz (Pinerolo, ITA) in the semifinals of the 2020 Curling Masters Champery in Champery, Switzerland; and won 8-0 over Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) in the quarterfinals. of the 2020 Curling Masters Champery in Champery, Switzerland;

Schwaller finished 2-1 in the 20 team Curling Masters Champery qualifying round, held October 15 - 18, 2020 in , . In their opening game, Schwaller defeated Andrin Schnider (Switzerland) 8-1, then went on to lose 6-5 against Jan Klossner (Switzerland). Schwaller responded with a 9-4 win over Christian Heinimann (Basel, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Curling Masters Champery Championship title, Schwaller earned 0.000 world rankings points along with the $11,533CDN first prize cheque. For week 9 of the event schedule, Schwaller did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 6th place on the World Ranking Standings with 330.558 total points. Schwaller ranks 234th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2021	5	1	0	0.833	2-1	0-0	0-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2021	40	44	19	11.00	4.75	6.25	5.50	3.75	2.00	1.27	0.75

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2021	19	31	4	1	2-0	3-0	2-0	1.63	0.21	0.39	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2021	21	13	15	2	1-0	0-0	1-4	0.62	0.71	0.64	0.38

2021: Steffen Walstad
Steffen Walstad, Torger Nergaard, Markus Hoiberg, Magnus Vaagberg
Oslo, NOR
2020: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Meier, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI
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, GBR
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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