Smith

Perth, Scotland

SKIP
Kyle
Smith

Third
Thomas
Muirhead

Second
Kyle
Waddell

Lead
Cameron
Smith

Games:	10
Record:	5W - 5L
PF/G:	6.92
PA/G:	7.69
Hammer Efficiency:	0.37
Steal Defense:	0.28
Force Efficiency:	0.45
Steal Efficiency:	0.16

Kyle Smith (Perth, SCO) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Smith finished 5-4 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Smith lost 11-4 to Thomas Ulsrud (Oslo, NOR), then responded with a 9-7 win over David Sik (Prague, CZE). Smith went on to lose 9-6 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Smith lost 9-2 to Peter De Cruz (Geneve, SUI). Smith lost 8-2 to Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED) where Smith responded with a 7-3 win over Aku Kauste (Helsinki, FIN). Smith won 6-4 against Joel Retornaz (Turin, ITA), then won 8-6 against Alexey Stukalskiy (Moscow, RUS) and 12-5 against Alexander Baumann (Fuessen, GER) in their final qualifying round match.

Smith earned 6.910 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, dropping 1 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 25th place overall with 161.958 total points. Smith ranks 17th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 109.239 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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