CHAMPION: Jacobs Wins 2024 Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic

Edmonton, Alberta

SKIP
Brad
Jacobs

Third
Marc
Kennedy

Second
Brett
Gallant

Lead
Ben
Hebert

Games:	8
Record:	7W - 1L
PF/G:	8.97
PA/G:	5.00
Hammer Efficiency:	0.55
Steal Defense:	0.08
Force Efficiency:	0.63
Steal Efficiency:	0.27

Brad Jacobs (Edmonton, AB) won 6-4 over Scott Howard (Navan, ON) in the Final of the Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic, held October 24 - 28, 2024 at the Penticton Curling Club in Penticton, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Jacobs won 6-4 over Matt Dunstone (Winnipeg, MB) in the semifinals of the 2024 Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada; and won 6-1 over John Epping (Sudbury, NO) in the quarterfinals. of the 2024 Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada;

Jacobs finished 4-1 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Jacobs defeated Neil Dangerfield (Victoria, BC) 7-3, then went on to lose 5-4 against Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN). Jacobs responded with a 8-5 win over Cameron de Jong (Victoria, BC). Jacobs won 7-4 against Jongduk Park (Gangwon, KOR), then won 8-3 against Johnson Tao (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Nufloors Penticton Curling Classic Championship title, Jacobs earned 45.000 world rankings points along with the $20,000CDN first prize cheque. For week 13 of the event schedule, Jacobs did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Jacobs 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
2025	69	23	0	0.750	10-1	10-3	1-2	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	708	578	385	8.16	5.44	2.73	4.58	3.81	1.78	1.43	1.61

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	360	452	69	62	14-2	27-1	105-9	1.26	0.19	0.49	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	348	126	316	52	5-3	5-16	22-56	0.36	0.91	0.66	0.22

2024: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant, Ben Hebert , Paul Webster
Edmonton, AB
2023: Glenn Howard
Glenn Howard, Scott Howard, David Mathers, Tim March
Penetanguishene, ON
2021: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2019: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2018: Glen Muirhead
Glen Muirhead, Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Cameron Smith
Perth, SCO
2017: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB

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