CHAMPION: Casper Wins 2023 CURVE US Open of Curling

Chaska, Minnesota

SKIP
Daniel
Casper

Third
Luc
Violette

Second
Ben
Richardson

Lead
Chase
Sinnett

Games:	6
Record:	6W - 0L
PF/G:	16.54
PA/G:	3.08
Hammer Efficiency:	0.67
Steal Defense:	0.20
Force Efficiency:	0.80
Steal Efficiency:	0.69

Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN) won 6-3 over Korey Dropkin (Duluth, 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, Casper won 5-4 over Rich Ruohonen (Minneapolis, MN) in the semifinals of the 2023 CURVE US Open of Curling - Championships in Blaine, Minnesota, United States; and won 6-0 over Nicholas Connolly (Seattle, WA) in the quarterfinals. of the 2023 CURVE US Open of Curling - Championships in Blaine, Minnesota, United States;

Casper finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Casper defeated Tucker Smith (Sioux Falls, SD) 12-0, then won 7-0 against Connor Kauffman (Blaine, MN) and 7-1 against Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the CURVE US Open of Curling - Championships Championship title, Casper earned 15.000 world rankings points along with the $4,040CDN first prize cheque. For week 9 of the event schedule, Casper did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 24th to 25th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 160.625 total points. Casper ranks 23rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 33.000 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
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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