Birr1-4 at 2019 Beyer & Simonson US Open of Curling

Ham Lake, Minnesota

SKIP
Todd
Birr

Third
Andrew
Stopera

Second
Hunter
Clawson

Lead
Tom
O'Connor

Games:	5
Record:	1W - 4L
PF/G:	5.45
PA/G:	8.48
Hammer Efficiency:	0.13
Steal Defense:	0.38
Force Efficiency:	0.58
Steal Efficiency:	0.24

Todd Birr (Ham Lake, MN) finished 1-4 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Birr lost 6-2 to Dominik Maerki (Chaska, MN), droppimg another game, 7-3 to Luc Violette (Chaska, MN). Birr lost 7-3 to Scott Dunnam (Philadelphia, PA). Birr lost 6-3 to Korey Dropkin (Chaska, USA) where Birr responded with a 7-2 win over Jason Smith (Blaine , MN) in their final qualifying round match.

Birr earned 1.244 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 9 of the event schedule, Birr did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 57th to 60th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 74.039 total points. Birr ranks 47th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 15.148 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

2023: Daniel Casper
Daniel Casper, Luc Violette, Ben Richardson, Chase Sinnett , Jordan Moulton
Chaska, MN
2022: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner, Thomas Howell
Duluth, MN
2021: Luc Violette
Luc Violette, Chase Sinnett, Ben Richardson, Jon Harstad
Chaska, MN
2019: Rich Ruohonen
Greg Persinger, Rich Ruohonen, Colin Hufman, Philip Tilker, Kroy Nernberger
Minneapolis, USA
2018: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, DonghYeong Lee, Hyeonjun Hwang
Seoul, KOR
2016: Matt Dunstone
Matt Dunstone, Alex Forrest, Ian McMillan, Connor Njegovan
Winnipeg, MB
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2015: Steve Laycock
Steve Laycock, Kirk Muyres, Colton Flasch, Gerry Adam
Saskatoon, SK
2014: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, Xiao Ming Xu, De Xin Ba
Harbin, CHN

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