CHAMPION: Schwaller Wins 2020 Curling Masters Champery

SKIP
Yannick
Schwaller

Third
Michael
Brunner

Second
Romano
Keller-Meier

Lead
Marcel
Kaeufeler

Yannick Schwaller (Bern, SUI) won 7-2 over Bjorn Jungen (Adelboden, SUI) in the Final of the Curling Masters Champery, held October 15 - 18, 2020 in Champery, Switzerland. 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 qualifying round. . In their opening game, Schwaller defeated Switzerland's Andrin Schnider 8-1, then went on to lose 6-5 against Switzerland's Jan Klossner. 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

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2021: Steffen Walstad
Steffen Walstad, Torger Nergaard, Markus Hoiberg, Magnus Vaagberg
Oslo, NOR
2020: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Keller-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 van-Berkel, 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 van-Berkel, Peter De Cruz, Gilles Vuille, Valentin Tanner
, SUI

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