Craik2-0 at 2023 Grand Prix Bern Inter Curling Challenge

SKIP
James
Craik

Third
Mark
Watt

Second
Angus
Bryce

Lead
Blair
Haswell

James Craik (Forfar, SCO) finished 2-0 in the 23-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Craik defeated Martin Rios (Glarus, SUI) 8-0, then won 8-5 against Yves Stocker (Zug, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Grand Prix Bern Inter Curling Challenge Championship title, Craik earned 30.000 world rankings points along with the $7,623CDN first prize cheque. Craik move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 13.5 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 14th overall with 183.937 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Craik ranks 9th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 93.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	42	29	0	0.592	15-3	10-5	2-2	2-0	1-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	523	414	329	7.92	6.29	1.63	4.78	4.09	1.66	1.54	1.13

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	248	292	77	24	7-1	22-4	54-13	1.18	0.31	0.37	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	275	122	252	35	2-4	9-15	19-49	0.44	0.92	0.58	0.29

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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