Gulbis

SKIP
Ritvars
Gulbis

Third
Raivis
Busmanis

Second
Aivars
Avotins

Lead
Anrijs Mikuss
Briezkalns

Ritvars Gulbis (Riga, LAT) needed tiebreakers to advance to the playoffs, failed to advance to the playoff round, losing in the tiebreaker round, Gulbis finished 1-3 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gulbis lost 5-2 to Martin Rios (Glarus, SUI), droppimg another game, 7-3 to Simon Gempeler (Adelboden, SUI) where Gulbis responded with a 8-7 win over Vincent Huguelet (Morges, SUI). Gulbis went on to lose 5-3 against Christian Bangerter (Bern, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Gulbis earned 3.578 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Gulbis move up 56 spots after posting a net gain of 3.208 points improving upon their best 5 results so far this season, ranking 241st overall with 8.227 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Gulbis ranks 184th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 5.634 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

2023: James Craik
James Craik, Mark Watt, Angus Bryce, Blair Haswell
Forfar, SCO
2022: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Mattia Giovanella
Trentino, ITA
2021: Yves Stocker
Philipp Hoesli, Yves Stocker, Marco Hefti, Justin Hausherr
Glarus, SUI
2019: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Simone Gonin
Pinerolo, ITA
2018: Amos Mosaner
Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Andrea Pilzer, Daniele Ferrazza
Trentino, ITA

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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