CHAMPION: Liu Wins 2013 Weatherford Curling Classic

SKIP
Rui
Liu

Third
Jia Liang
Zang

Second
Xiao Ming
Xu

Lead
De Xin
Ba

Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN) won 5-2 over Bruce Korte (Saskatoon, SK) in the Final of the Weatherford Curling Classic, held November 29 - December 2, 2013 at the Estevan Curling Club in Estevan, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Liu won 5-4 over Scott Manners (North Battleford, SK) in the semifinals of the 2013 Weatherford Curling Classic in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada; and won 3-1 over Randy Woytowich (Saskatoon, SK) in the quarterfinals.

Liu finished 3-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Liu lost 2-1 to Brent Gedak (Estevan, SK), then responded with a 9-3 win over Brad Heidt (Kerrobert, SK). Liu won 6-4 against Scott Bitz (Regina, SK), then won 8-3 against Manners in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Weatherford Curling Classic Championship title, Liu earned 10.200 world rankings points along with the $10,000CDN first prize cheque, dropping 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 16th place overall with 134.480 total points. Liu ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 67.550 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	65	32	0	0.670	28-16	11-12	10-14	2-3	0-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	784	613	470	7.82	5.99	1.82	4.89	3.85	1.60	1.56	1.26

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	383	430	89	55	5-0	26-7	95-13	1.12	0.23	0.38	0.16

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	401	183	381	44	3-7	15-21	27-77	0.46	0.95	0.56	0.29

Team Marco Hoesli (Photo: Anil Mungal/GSOC) took down the world number one and two ranked teams to secure the first title of the season.

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