Waddell Reaches 2025 Sun City Cup Semifinals

Stirling, Scotland

SKIP
Kyle
Waddell

Third
Craig
Waddell

Second
Mark
Taylor

Lead
Gavin
Barr

Games:	5
Record:	4W - 1L
PF/G:	8.92
PA/G:	7.03
Hammer Efficiency:	0.38
Steal Defense:	0.22
Force Efficiency:	0.40
Steal Efficiency:	0.47

Kyle Waddell (Stirling, SCO) run at the 2025 Sun City Cup came to an end in the semifinals with a 8-3 loss to James Craik (Stirling, SCO). of the 2025 Sun City Cup in Karlstad, Sweden; Waddell advanced through the quarterfinals with a 9-5 win over Niklas Edin (Karlstad , SWE). of the 2025 Sun City Cup in Karlstad, Sweden;

Waddell finished 3-0 in the 28-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Waddell defeated Norway's Lukas Hostmaelingen 8-3, then won 6-5 against Kasper Wiksten (Hvodovre, DEN) and 7-5 against Joel Westerberg (Sundbyberg, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.

Waddell earned 17.000 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Sun City Cup. Waddell move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 9.687 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 22nd overall with 139.375 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Waddell ranks 22nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 139.375 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	40	31	0	0.563	7-2	1-7	1-2	1-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	506	404	348	7.98	6.88	1.11	4.68	4.25	1.70	1.62	1.07

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	246	304	67	23	7-0	24-2	58-13	1.24	0.27	0.40	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	260	100	281	31	3-10	9-16	7-54	0.38	1.08	0.52	0.25

2025: James Craik
James Craik, Mark Watt, Angus Bryce, Blair Haswell
Stirling, SCO
2024: Wouter Gosgens
Wouter Gosgens, Laurens Hoekman, Jaap van Dorp, Tobias van den Hurk, Alexander Magan
Zoetermeer, NED
2023: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE

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