CHAMPION: Casper Wins 2023 HearingLife Tour Challenge Tier 2

SKIP
Daniel
Casper

Third
Luc
Violette

Second
Ben
Richardson

Lead
Chase
Sinnett

Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN) won 6-2 over Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Final of the HearingLife Tour Challenge Tier 2, held October 17 - 22, 2023 in Niagara Falls, Ontario. To advance to the championship game, Casper won 8-3 over Mike McEwen (Saskatoon, SK) in the semifinals of the 2023 HearingLife Tour Challenge Tier 2 in Niagara Falls, Ontario; and won 7-4 over ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR) in the quarterfinals.

Casper finished 2-2 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Casper defeated Marco Hoesli (Glarus, SUI) 4-3, then went on to lose 7-2 against Cameron Bryce (Border, SCO). Casper responded with a 6-5 win over Catlin Schneider (Victoria, BC). Casper went on to lose 8-7 against Rylan Kleiter (Saskatoon, SK) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the HearingLife Tour Challenge Tier 2 Championship title, Casper earned 41.250 world rankings points along with the $9,500CDN first prize cheque. Casper move up 8 spots after posting a net gain of 25.297 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 17th overall with 169.016 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Casper ranks 11th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 89.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	42	21	0	0.667	7-5	7-2	3-1	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	440	380	284	8.64	6.45	2.18	5.11	4.05	1.69	1.60	0.84

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	203	259	54	20	5-0	22-5	52-7	1.28	0.27	0.43	0.18

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	237	121	230	17	4-6	5-15	17-39	0.51	0.97	0.57	0.33

2023: Daniel Casper
Daniel Casper, Luc Violette, Ben Richardson, Chase Sinnett , Jordan Moulton
Chaska, MN
2022: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner, Thomas Howell
Duluth, MN
2019: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Thomas Howell, Mark Fenner, Alex Fenson, Joe Polo, Shawn Rojeski
Chaska, USA
2018: Kirk Muyres
Kirk Muyres, Kevin Marsh, Daniel Marsh, Dallan Muyres
Saskatoon, SK
2017: Jason Gunnlaugson
Jason Gunnlaugson, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2016: Greg Balsdon
Greg Balsdon, Jonathan Beuk, David Staples, Scott Chadwick
Kingston, ON
2015: Jim Cotter
Jim Cotter, Ryan Kuhn, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
Vernon, BC

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