Bottcher Reaches 2022 KIOTI Tractor Champions Cup Quarters

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Darren
Moulding

Second
Bradley
Thiessen

Lead
Karrick
Martin

Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) qualified for the 2022 KIOTI Tractor Champions Cup playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 6-3 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL). of the 2022 KIOTI Tractor Champions Cup in Olds, Alberta;

Bottcher finished 3-2 in the 12 team KIOTI Tractor Champions Cup qualifying round, held May 3 - 8, 2022 in , . In their opening game, Bottcher defeated Korey Dropkin (Chaska, MN) 5-3, then went on to lose 6-5 against Soo-Hyuk Kim (Uiseong, KOR). Bottcher lost 6-4 to Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO) where Bottcher responded with a 7-6 win over Jason Gunnlaugson (Winnipeg, MB). Bottcher won 8-3 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

Bottcher earned 29.741 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the KIOTI Tractor Champions Cup, remaining in 6th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 19.053 after improving upon their best so far this season. Bottcher ranks 6th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 288.696 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	42	24	0	0.636	11-6	9-7	7-5	1-1	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	519	391	306	7.53	5.90	1.64	4.47	3.78	1.69	1.56	1.75

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	247	310	41	40	7-0	20-3	66-5	1.26	0.17	0.45	0.12

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	272	81	265	51	2-4	5-14	10-58	0.30	0.97	0.54	0.20

2021: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr. , Alan Hannah
Stirling, SCO
2019: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2018: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2017: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Ryan Fry, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
Sault Ste Marie, NONT
2016: Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers, Braeden Moskowy, Derek Samagalski, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, MB

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