Kang2-2 at 2019 Avonair Cash Spiel

SKIP
Xinlong
Kang

Third
Tianqi
Guan

Second
Ruihan
Li

Lead
Shuo
Li

Xinlong Kang (Changchun, CHN) finished 2-2 in the 23-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kang lost 6-3 to Sean O'Connor (Calgary, AB), then responded with a 6-2 win over Shingo Usui (Kitami, JPN). Kang went on to lose 6-4 against Daylan Vavrek (Sexsmith, AB). Kang responded with a 4-3 win over Kalem Hamilton (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Kang earned 2.489 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Kang move up 114 spots after posting a net gain of 2.427 points improving upon their best 3 results so far this season, ranking 352nd overall with 3.044 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Kang ranks 159th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.489 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: Kohsuke Hirata
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Ryota Meguro, Yoshiya Miura
Kitami, JPN
2022: Kody Hartung
Kody Hartung, Tyler Hartung, Brady Scharback, Brady Kendel
Saskatoon, SK
2021: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Chang-Min Kim, Jae Ik Jeon, Hak Kyun Kim , So Min Yoon
Uiseong, KOR
2019: Jeremy Harty
Jeremy Harty, Kyler Kleibrink, Joel Berger, Kurtis Goller
Calgary, AB
2018: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Tristan Steinke, Jason Ginter, Glenn Venance
Edmonton, AB
2017: Aaron Sluchinski
Aaron Sluchinski, Dean Mamer, Kerr Drummond, Dylan Webster
Airdrie,
2016: Glen Hansen
Glen Hansen, Dean Ross, Don Bartlett, George Parsons
Edmonton, AB
2015: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jongduk Park, Yoonho Nam
, KOR
2014: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Jongduk Park, Taehwan Kim, Minhyeon Yoo
Gang Won, KOR
2013: Ted Appelman
Ted Appelman, Shawn Donnelly, Landon Bucholz, Bryce Bucholz
Edmonton, AB

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