Craik Reaches 2022 Euro Super Series Quarters

Stirling, Scotland

SKIP
James
Craik

Third
Mark
Watt

Second
Angus
Bryce

Lead
Blair
Haswell

Games:	6
Record:	3W - 3L
PF/G:	7.78
PA/G:	7.11
Hammer Efficiency:	0.44
Steal Defense:	0.10
Force Efficiency:	0.47
Steal Efficiency:	0.20

James Craik (Stirling, SCO) qualified for the 2022 Euro Super Series playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 6-4 against Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA).

Craik finished 3-2 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Craik defeated Yves Stocker (Zug, SUI) 8-5, then went on to lose 8-4 against John Shuster (Duluth, MN). Craik lost 7-5 to Kyle Waddell (Glasgow, SCO) where Craik responded with a 10-3 win over ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR). Craik won 4-3 against Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Craik earned 16.500 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Euro Super Series, moving up 18 spots the World Ranking Standings into 35th place overall with 66.785 total points. Craik ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 21.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	45	26	0	0.634	6-5	5-4	2-2	1-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	519	418	326	8.05	6.28	1.77	4.68	4.22	1.72	1.49	1.10

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	262	307	85	31	12-1	18-2	61-14	1.17	0.32	0.39	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	257	111	241	26	3-1	5-15	18-51	0.43	0.94	0.57	0.29

2025: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr., Kyle Waddell, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO
2024: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Stirling, SCO
2023: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr. , Michael Goodfellow
STIRLING, SCO
2022: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Mattia Giovanella
Trentino, ITA
2021: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Keller-Meier, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI

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