CHAMPION: Champ Wins KW Fall Classic

Toronto, Ontario

SKIP
Alex
Champ

Third
Charlie
Richard

Second
DJ
Ronaldson

Lead
Scott
Clinton

Games:	8
Record:	6W - 2L
PF/G:	9.15
PA/G:	6.10
Hammer Efficiency:	0.30
Steal Defense:	0.29
Force Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Efficiency:	0.46

Alex Champ (Toronto, ON) won 6-5 over Yves Stocker (Zug, SUI) in the Final of the KW Fall Classic, held September 14 - 17 at the K-W Granite Club in Waterloo, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Champ won 7-3 over Ian Dickie (Kitchener, ON) in the semifinals of the KW Fall Classic in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; and won 8-7 over James Craik (Forfar, SCO) in the quarterfinals.

Champ finished 3-2 in the 19-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Champ defeated Mark Kean (Woodstock, ON) 8-2, then went on to lose 7-5 against Craik. Champ lost 6-4 to Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) where Champ responded with a 8-1 win over Jordan McNamara (Ottawa, ON). Champ won 8-5 against Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the KW Fall Classic Championship title, Champ earned 22.500 world rankings points along with the $3,500CDN first prize cheque, moving up 13 spots the World Ranking Standings into 47th place overall with 84.079 total points. Champ ranks 30th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 24.188 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	13	8	0	0.619	0-0	1-4	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	151	121	106	8.01	7.02	0.99	4.83	4.17	1.66	1.68	0.99

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	66	63	38	5	0-1	7-2	10-8	0.95	0.58	0.28	0.33

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	85	58	68	10	0-0	6-7	12-13	0.68	0.80	0.51	0.40

2023: Alex Champ
Alex Champ, Charlie Richard, DJ Ronaldson, Scott Clinton
Toronto, ON
2022: Michael Fournier
Michael Fournier, Kevin Flewwelling, Sean Harrison, Zander Elmes
Toronto, ON
2021: Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte, Robin Brydone, Duncan McFadzean, Euan Kyle , Greg Drummond
Stirling, SCO
2020: Paul Moffatt
Paul Moffatt, Ben Shane, John Gabel, Kyle Forster
Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
2019: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Masaki Iwai, Ryotaro Shukuya, Kosuke Morozumi
Nagano, JPN
2018: Alexey Timofeev
Alexey Timofeev, Alexey Stukalskiy, Artur Razhabov, Artem Shmakov, Sergei Glukhov
St. Petersburg, RUS
2017: Matthew Hall
Matthew Hall, Jeff Wanless, Joey Hart, David Hart
Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
2016: Richard Krell
Richard Krell, Evan Lilly, Jonah Mondloch, Robert Currie
Waterloo, ON
2015: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, De Xin Ba, Xiao Ming Xu
Harbin, CHN
2014: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Brett Dekoning, Scott Brandon, Shane Konings
London, ON
2013: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Brett Dekoning, Connor Duhaime, Simon Barrick
London, ON
2012: Mark Kean
Mark Kean, Travis Fanset, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2011: Rob Rumfeldt
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Guelph, ON
2010: Greg Balsdon
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Kingston, ON
2009: Dale Matchett
Dale Matchett, Ryan Werenich, Jeff Gorda, Shawn Kaufman
Bradford, ON
2008: Dale Matchett
Dale Matchett, Ryan Werenich, Jeff Gorda, Shawn Kaufman
Churchill, ON

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