Stocker Runner-Up at 2023 KW Fall Classic

Zug, Switzerland

SKIP
Yves
Stocker

Third
Kim
Schwaller

Second
Felix
Eberhard

Lead
Tom
Winkelhausen

Games:	6
Record:	5W - 1L
PF/G:	9.27
PA/G:	4.39
Hammer Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Defense:	0.10
Force Efficiency:	0.83
Steal Efficiency:	0.35

Yves Stocker (Zug, SUI) lost 6-5 to Alex Champ (Toronto, ON) in the Final of the KW Fall Classic, held September 14 - 17, 2023 at the K-W Granite Club in Waterloo, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Stocker won 7-3 over Felix Asselin (Montreal, QC) in the semifinals of the 2023 KW Fall Classic in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; and won 7-2 over Sandy MacEwan (Sudbury, NONT) in the quarterfinals. of the 2023 KW Fall Classic in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada;

Stocker finished 3-0 in the 19-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Stocker defeated Zackary Wise (Montreal , QC) 7-2, then won 5-3 against Ian Dickie (Kitchener, ON) and 7-2 against Asselin in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the KW Fall Classic, Stocker take home 16.500 world rankings points along with the $2,500CDN prize. Stocker move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 12 points improving upon their best 2 results so far this season, ranking 40th overall with 107.688 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Stocker ranks 35th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 21.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	57	26	0	0.687	8-3	7-7	2-3	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	567	510	361	8.99	6.37	2.63	5.01	4.16	1.80	1.53	0.83

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	281	362	77	26	13-1	24-3	78-10	1.29	0.27	0.45	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	286	148	284	21	5-4	13-18	17-57	0.52	0.99	0.56	0.30

2023: Alex Champ
Alex Champ, Charlie Richard, DJ Ronaldson, Scott Clinton
Toronto, ON
2022: Michael Fournier
Michael Fournier, Kevin Flewwelling, Sean Harrison, Zander Elmes
Toronto, ON
2021: Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte, Robin Brydone, Duncan McFadzean, Euan Kyle , Greg Drummond
Stirling, SCO
2020: Paul Moffatt
Paul Moffatt, Ben Shane, John Gabel, Kyle Forster
Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
2019: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Masaki Iwai, Ryotaro Shukuya, Kosuke Morozumi
Nagano, JPN
2018: Alexey Timofeev
Alexey Timofeev, Alexey Stukalskiy, Artur Razhabov, Artem Shmakov, Sergei Glukhov
St. Petersburg, RUS
2017: Matthew Hall
Matthew Hall, Jeff Wanless, Joey Hart, David Hart
Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
2016: Richard Krell
Richard Krell, Evan Lilly, Jonah Mondloch, Robert Currie
Waterloo, ON
2015: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, De Xin Ba, Xiao Ming Xu
Harbin, CHN
2014: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Brett Dekoning, Scott Brandon, Shane Konings
London, ON
2013: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Brett Dekoning, Connor Duhaime, Simon Barrick
London, ON
2012: Mark Kean
Mark Kean, Travis Fanset, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2011: Rob Rumfeldt
Rob Rumfeldt, Adam Spencer, Scott Hodgson, Greg Robinson
Guelph, ON
2010: Greg Balsdon
Greg Balsdon, Chris Ciasnocha, Tyler Morgan, Jamie Farnell
Kingston, ON
2009: Dale Matchett
Dale Matchett, Ryan Werenich, Jeff Gorda, Shawn Kaufman
Bradford, ON
2008: Dale Matchett
Dale Matchett, Ryan Werenich, Jeff Gorda, Shawn Kaufman
Churchill, ON

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