Walstad Runner-Up at 2019 Aberdeen International Curling Championship

SKIP
Steffen
Walstad

Third
Markus
Hoiberg

Second
Magnus
Nedregotten

Lead
Magnus
Vaagberg

Steffen Walstad (Oppdal, NOR) lost 6-5 to Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI) in the Final of the Aberdeen International Curling Championship, held March 14 - 17, 2019 in Aberdeen, Scotland. To advance to the championship game, Walstad won 8-7 over Robin Brydone (Perth, SCO) in the semifinals of the 2019 Aberdeen International Curling Championship in Aberdeen, Scotland; and won 6-4 over Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO) in the quarterfinals.

Walstad finished 3-2 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Walstad lost 8-2 to De Cruz, droppimg another game, 6-4 to Magnus Ramsfjell (Oslo, NOR) where Walstad responded with a 5-4 win over Glen Muirhead (Perth, SCO). Walstad won 5-0 against Hamish Gallacher (Dumfries, SCO), then won 12-5 against Marc Muskatewitz (Baden Baden, GER) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Aberdeen International Curling Championship, Walstad take home 32.219 world rankings points along with the $4,034CDN prize. Walstad move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 28.243 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 18th overall with 207.999 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Walstad ranks 18th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 207.999 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: Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte, Robin Brydone, Duncan McFadzean, Euan Kyle
Stirling, SCO
2022: Sixten Totzek
Sixten Totzek, Marc Muskatewitz , Joshua Sutor, Dominik Greindl
Munich, GER
2020: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Keller-Meier, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI
2019: Peter De Cruz
Benoit Schwarz van-Berkel, Sven Michel, Peter De Cruz, Valentin Tanner
Geneve, SUI
2018: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Edinburgh, SCO
2017: Grant Hardie
Grant Hardie, Blair Fraser, Dave Reid, Duncan Menzies
Dumfries, SCO
2016: David Murdoch
David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO

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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