Tao Runner-Up at 2021 Alberta Curling Series: Avonair

Edmonton, Alberta

SKIP
Johnson
Tao

Third
Jaedon
Neuert

Second
Ben
Morin

Lead
Andrew
Nowell

Games:	7
Record:	4W - 3L
PF/G:	7.40
PA/G:	6.40
Hammer Efficiency:	0.37
Steal Defense:	0.15
Force Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Efficiency:	0.40

Johnson Tao (Edmonton, AB) lost 7-2 to SooHyuk Kim (Uiseong, KOR) in the Final of the Alberta Curling Series: Avonair, held October 1 - 3, 2021 at the Avonair Curling Club in Edmonton, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Tao won 5-2 over Evan van Amsterdam (Calgary, AB) in the semifinals of the 2021 Alberta Curling Series: Avonair in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;

Tao finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tao defeated Warren Cross (Edmonton, AB) 8-2, then won 6-1 against van Amsterdam and 7-6 against Ryan Jacques (Edmonton, AB). Tao went on to lose 8-5 against Scott Webb (Grande Prairie, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Alberta Curling Series: Avonair, Tao take home 11.818 world rankings points along with the $1,480CDN prize. For week 10 of the event schedule, Tao did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Tao 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
2022	30	13	0	0.698	9-1	2-2	2-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	364	262	201	7.20	5.52	1.68	4.97	3.79	1.45	1.46	1.24

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	169	159	44	22	0-0	5-1	38-6	0.94	0.26	0.29	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	195	103	157	23	0-0	6-11	21-33	0.53	0.81	0.57	0.36

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2022: Kody Hartung
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2021: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Chang-Min Kim, Jae Ik Jeon, Hak Kyun Kim , So Min Yoon
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2019: Jeremy Harty
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2015: Soo-Hyuk Kim
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, 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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