Dropkin Runner-Up at 2023 CURVE US Open of Curling

Duluth, Minnesota

SKIP
Korey
Dropkin

Third
Andrew
Stopera

Second
Mark
Fenner

Lead
Thomas
Howell

Games:	6
Record:	5W - 1L
PF/G:	7.91
PA/G:	4.65
Hammer Efficiency:	0.24
Steal Defense:	0.27
Force Efficiency:	0.78
Steal Efficiency:	0.47

Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN) lost 6-3 to Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN) in the Final of the CURVE US Open of Curling - Championships, held September 21 - 24, 2023 at the Four Seasons Curling Club in Blaine, United States. To advance to the championship game, Dropkin won 5-2 over Ethan Sampson (Chaska, MN) in the semifinals of the 2023 CURVE US Open of Curling - Championships in Blaine, Minnesota, United States; and won 5-2 over Caden Hebert (Eau Claire , WI) in the quarterfinals.

Dropkin finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Dropkin defeated Austin Kadlec (Rice Lake, WI) 9-1, then won 7-6 against Wesley Wendling (Wausau, WI) and 5-3 against Sampson in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the CURVE US Open of Curling - Championships, Dropkin take home 11.000 world rankings points along with the $2,693CDN prize. For week 9 of the event schedule, Dropkin did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 10th place on the World Ranking Standings with 276.375 total points. Dropkin ranks 13th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 42.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	33	31	0	0.516	13-4	4-6	1-2	0-1	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	476	361	311	7.58	6.53	1.05	4.52	3.95	1.68	1.65	1.53

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	241	257	56	44	3-0	13-5	64-6	1.07	0.23	0.41	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	235	104	255	29	2-6	12-18	15-51	0.44	1.09	0.49	0.25

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
2021: Luc Violette
Luc Violette, Chase Sinnett, Ben Richardson, Jon Harstad
Chaska, MN
2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, DonghYeong Lee, Hyeonjun Hwang
Seoul, KOR
2016: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2015: Steve Laycock
Steve Laycock, Kirk Muyres, Colton Flasch, Gerry Adam
Saskatoon, SK
2014: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, Xiao Ming Xu, De Xin Ba
Harbin, CHN

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