Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR) finished 7-2 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ulsrud lost 7-6 to Kevin Martin (Edmonton, CAN), then responded with a 6-5 win over John Shuster (Duluth, MN). Ulsrud won 7-4 against Andy Kapp (Fuessen, GER), then won 7-4 against Markus Eggler (St. Gallen, SUI) and 7-5 against Fengchun Wang (Harbin, CHN). Ulsrud won 6-3 against Ulrik Schmidt (Hvidovre, DEN). Ulsrud went on to lose 8-7 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Ulsrud responded with a 9-2 win over Thomas Dufour (Chamonix, FRA). Ulsrud won 9-5 against David Murdoch (Lockerbie, UK) in their final qualifying round match.
 
. For week of the event schedule, Ulsrud did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Ulsrud ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.