CHAMPION: Sluchinski Wins 2023 Curling Stadium Alberta Tour Kick-off

SKIP
Aaron
Sluchinski

Third
Jeremy
Harty

Second
Kerr
Drummond

Lead
Dylan
Webster

Aaron Sluchinski (Airdrie, AB) won 6-1 over Daniel Casper (Chaska, MN) in the Final of the Curling Stadium Alberta Tour Kick-off, held August 25 - 27, 2023 at the Leduc Curling Club in Leduc, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Sluchinski won 6-2 over Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB) in the semifinals

Sluchinski finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sluchinski defeated Andrew Dunbar (Edmonton, AB) 10-3, then won 5-2 against Jacob Libbus (Okotoks, AB). Sluchinski went on to lose 6-5 against Casper in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Curling Stadium Alberta Tour Kick-off Championship title, Sluchinski earned 22.500 world rankings points along with the $5,000CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 19th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 174.625 total points. Sluchinski ranks 15th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 22.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	42	27	0	0.609	8-6	5-3	0-1	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	526	388	334	7.38	6.35	1.03	4.43	4.05	1.67	1.57	1.52

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	273	291	80	40	7-1	16-4	60-10	1.07	0.29	0.36	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	253	97	254	40	1-5	9-18	17-48	0.38	1.00	0.54	0.23

2023: Aaron Sluchinski
Aaron Sluchinski, Jeremy Harty, Kerr Drummond, Dylan Webster , Mickey Pendergast
Airdrie, AB
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Eun ji Gim, Ye ji Seol, Su ji Kim, Ye eun Seol, Min Ji Kim, Dong ho Shin
Uijeongbu, KOR
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Kamloops, BC

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