Bottcher4-0 at Americas Challenge

Edmonton, Canada

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Darren
Moulding

Second
Bradley
Thiessen

Lead
Karrick
Martin

Games:	4
Record:	4W - 0L
PF/G:	19.17
PA/G:	2.08
Hammer Efficiency:	0.63
Steal Defense:	0.13
Force Efficiency:	1.00
Steal Efficiency:	0.75

Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, CAN) finished 4-0 in the 3-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bottcher defeated Marcelo Mello (Sao Paolo, BRA) 11-2, then won 14-1 against Jesus Barajas (Mexico City, MEX) and 10-1 against Mello. Bottcher won 11-1 against Barajas in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Americas Challenge Championship title, Bottcher earned 10.688 world rankings points, dropping 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 7th place overall with 261.180 total points. Bottcher ranks 10th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 87.191 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

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