CHAMPION: Blandford Wins King Cash Spiel

Vancouver, British Columbia

SKIP
Matthew
Blandford

Third
Sebastien
Robillard

Second
Cody
Johnston

Lead
Matthew
Fenton

Games:	7
Record:	6W - 1L
PF/G:	9.78
PA/G:	5.00
Hammer Efficiency:	0.67
Steal Defense:	0.00
Force Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Efficiency:	0.20

Matthew Blandford (Vancouver, BC) won 5-3 over British Columbia's Jay Wakefield in the Final of the King Cash Spiel, held October 16 - 19 at the Golden Ears Curling Club in Maple Ridge, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Blandford won 5-4 over Cody Tanaka (Kamloops, BC) in the semifinals of the King Cash Spiel in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada; and won 8-2 over Matt Tolley (Penticton, BC) in the quarterfinals. of the King Cash Spiel in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada;

Blandford finished 3-1 in the 14-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Blandford lost 5-4 to British Columbia's Jay Wakefield, then responded with a 9-3 win over Alex Duncan-Wu (Victoria, BC). Blandford won 7-4 against Richard Krell (Langley, BC), then won 7-2 against Cameron de Jong (Victoria, BC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the King Cash Spiel Championship title, Blandford earned 9.750 world rankings points along with the $4,000CDN first prize cheque. Blandford move up 7 spots after posting a net gain of 8.25 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 46th overall with 73.293 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Blandford ranks 33rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 41.125 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	28	13	0	0.683	2-1	1-1	3-1	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2026	305	242	200	7.93	6.56	1.38	4.59	4.30	1.73	1.53	1.11

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	150	188	44	13	3-0	18-2	40-6	1.25	0.29	0.45	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	155	54	156	21	2-2	1-8	8-37	0.35	1.01	0.52	0.24

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