Bottcher Finishes Fourth at 2019 Karuizawa International

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Darren
Moulding

Second
Bradley
Thiessen

Lead
Patrick
Janssen

Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) lost 8-2 to John Shuster (Duluth, USA) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan. of the 2019 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan; Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) lost 8-2 to John Shuster (Duluth, USA) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2019 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan. Bottcher lost 8-6 to Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2019 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan; and won 7-2 over Yusuke Morozumi (Nagano, JPN) in the quarterfinals. of the 2019 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan;

Bottcher finished 3-1 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bottcher defeated Kanya Shimizuno (Hokkaido, JPN) 8-2, then won 6-1 against Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN). Bottcher went on to lose 8-4 against Morozumi. Bottcher responded with a 9-1 win over Hayato Matsumura (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Karuizawa International, Bottcher take home 19.220 world rankings points along with 4809CDN, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 3rd place overall with 469.346 total points. Bottcher ranks 4th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 271.723 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: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden, Geoff Walker , Siyu Liu
St. John's, NL
2022: Riku Yanagisawa
Riku Yanagisawa, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Takeru Yamamoto, Satoshi Koizumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers, Mike McEwen, Matt Wozniak, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, CAN
2017: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Tetsuro Shimizu, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Kosuke Morozumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Tom Brewster
Tom Brewster, Glen Muirhead, Ross Paterson, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Aberdeen, SCO
2015: David Murdoch
David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO
2014: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2013: Chang-Min Kim
Chang-Min Kim, Min-Chan Kim, Se-Hyun Sung, Young-Seon Seo, Eun Soo Oh
Gyeongbuk Uiseong, KOR

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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