CHAMPION: Brewster Wins 2016 Karuizawa International

SKIP
Tom
Brewster

Third
Glen
Muirhead

Second
Ross
Paterson

Lead
Hammy
McMillan Jr.

Tom Brewster (Aberdeen, SCO) won 4-3 over David Murdoch (Stirling, SCO) in the Final of the Karuizawa International, held December 15 - 18, 2016 in Karuizawa, Japan.

Brewster finished 4-0 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Brewster defeated Taiki Natsuizaka (Aomori City, JPN) 5-3, then won 6-4 against Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN) and 8-5 against SooHyuk Kim (Gangwon, KOR). Brewster won 4-3 against Yuya Takigahira (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Karuizawa International Championship title, Brewster earned 29.295 world rankings points along with the $11,311CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 18th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 28.013 after improving upon their best so far this season. Brewster ranks 19th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 138.492 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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