Liu6-5 at 2013 Ford World Men's Curling Championship

Harbin, China

SKIP
Rui
Liu

Third
Xiao Ming
Xu

Second
Jia Liang
Zang

Lead
De Xin
Ba

Games:	11
Record:	6W - 5L
PF/G:	6.57
PA/G:	5.74
Hammer Efficiency:	0.28
Steal Defense:	0.08
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.27

Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) finished 6-5 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Liu lost 7-6 to Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, CAN), then responded with a 12-5 win over Jiri Snitil (Praha, CZE). Liu won 5-4 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE), then won 7-5 against Yusuke Morozumi (Kariuzawa, JPN) and 6-3 against Andrey Drozdov (Moscow, RUS). Liu went on to lose 5-4 against Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR). Liu lost 10-8 to Brady Clark (Seattle, USA) where Liu responded with a 5-4 win over Sven Michel (Adelboden, SUI). Liu went on to lose 7-6 against Rasmus Stjerne (Hvidovre, DEN). Liu lost 7-4 to David Murdoch (Aberdeen, SCO) where Liu responded with a 8-5 win over Aku Kauste (Vantaa, FIN) in their final qualifying round match.

Liu earned 12.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 20th place overall with 117.995 total points. Liu ranks 22nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 66.930 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

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Calgary's Brad Jacobs (Photo: Curling Canada/Andrew Klaver) defeats Winnipeg's Matt Dunstone 6-5, winning 2 games to 0 in a best-of-three final at the Montana's Canadian Olympic Curling Trials in Halifax, N.

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