Zou1-3 at 2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

Beijing, China

Fourth
De Xin
Ba

SKIP
Qiang
Zou

Second
Zhi Yu
Wang

Lead
Jingtao
Xu

Games:	4
Record:	1W - 3L
PF/G:	6.55
PA/G:	5.86
Hammer Efficiency:	0.27
Steal Defense:	0.29
Force Efficiency:	0.17
Steal Efficiency:	0.40

Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) finished 1-3 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Zou lost 6-3 to SooHyuk Kim (Seoul, KOR), droppimg another game, 4-3 to Jason Gunnlaugson (Winnipeg, MB) where Zou responded with a 9-1 win over Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN). Zou went on to lose 6-4 against Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Zou earned 1.828 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 2 of the event schedule, Zou did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Zou ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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

2025: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Shinya Abe, Hayato Sato, Haruto Ouchi
Sapporo, JPN
2023: Kohsuke Hirata
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Ryota Meguro, Yoshiya Miura
Kitami, JPN
2022: ByeongJin Jeong
ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, MinWoo Kim, Taehwan Kim
Seoul, KOR
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Masaki Iwai
Go Aoki, Masaki Iwai, Ryotaro Shukuya, Koki Ogiwara, Kei Kamada
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jongduk Park, Yoonho Nam
Gangwon, KOR
2016: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Tristan Steinke, Chris Kennedy, Caleb Boorse
Edmonton, AB

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