CHAMPION: Violette Wins 2021 Curve US Open of Curling

Chaska, Minnesota

SKIP
Luc
Violette

Third
Chase
Sinnett

Second
Ben
Richardson

Lead
Jon
Harstad

Games:	7
Record:	6W - 1L
PF/G:	11.40
PA/G:	4.42
Hammer Efficiency:	0.69
Steal Defense:	0.00
Force Efficiency:	0.54
Steal Efficiency:	0.46

Luc Violette (Chaska, MN) won 6-2 over Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA) in the Final To advance to the championship game, Violette won 5-3 over Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, MN) in the semifinals of the 2021 Curve US Open of Curling - Championships in Blaine, Minnesota, United States;

Violette finished 3-1 in the 9 team Curve US Open of Curling - Championships qualifying round, held September 10 - 12, 2021 at the Four Seasons Curling Club in Blaine, United States. In their opening game, Violette defeated Jed Brundidge (East St. Paul, MN) 8-2, then went on to lose 7-6 against Ruohonen. Violette responded with a 9-2 win over Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN). Violette won 8-1 against Kevin Tuma (SAINT PAUL, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Curve US Open of Curling - Championships Championship title, Violette earned 26.231 world rankings points along with the $5,061CDN first prize cheque, moving up 32 spots the World Ranking Standings into 45th place overall with 50.223 total points. Violette ranks 9th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 26.231 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	6	1	0	0.857	2-0	1-1	0-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	43	49	19	11.40	4.42	6.98	5.81	3.02	1.96	1.46	1.16

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	17	26	0	4	1-0	2-0	6-0	1.53	0.00	0.69	0.00

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	26	23	19	1	0-0	3-0	5-6	0.88	0.73	0.54	0.46

2021: Luc Violette
Luc Violette, Chase Sinnett, Ben Richardson, Jon Harstad
Chaska, MN
2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, DonghYeong Lee, Hyeonjun Hwang
Seoul, KOR
2016: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2015: Steve Laycock
Steve Laycock, Kirk Muyres, Colton Flasch, Gerry Adam
Saskatoon, SK
2014: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, Xiao Ming Xu, De Xin Ba
Harbin, CHN

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