CHAMPION: Craik Wins 2025 Sun City Cup

Stirling, Scotland

SKIP
James
Craik

Third
Mark
Watt

Second
Angus
Bryce

Lead
Blair
Haswell

Games:	6
Record:	6W - 0L
PF/G:	10.23
PA/G:	4.65
Hammer Efficiency:	0.44
Steal Defense:	0.10
Force Efficiency:	0.69
Steal Efficiency:	0.35

James Craik (Stirling, SCO) won 7-5 over Jan Iseli (Solothurn , SUI) in the Final of the Sun City Cup, held February 20 - 23, 2025 in Karlstad, Sweden. To advance to the championship game, Craik won 8-3 over Kyle Waddell (Stirling, SCO) in the semifinals of the 2025 Sun City Cup in Karlstad, Sweden; and won 6-4 over Andreas Harstad (Oslo, NOR) in the quarterfinals. of the 2025 Sun City Cup in Karlstad, Sweden;

Craik finished 3-0 in the 28-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Craik defeated Kristian Lindstroem (Karlstad, SWE) 6-4, then won 11-1 against Burak Aytac Atac (Ankuva, TUR) and 6-3 against Jacob Schmidt (Hvidovre, DEN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Sun City Cup Championship title, Craik earned 30.000 world rankings points along with the $5,000CDN first prize cheque. Craik move up 7 spots after posting a net gain of 26.25 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 19th overall with 144.375 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Craik ranks 19th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 144.375 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2025	43	32	0	0.573	10-7	2-2	3-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2025	547	406	352	7.42	6.44	0.99	4.61	4.24	1.61	1.52	1.15

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2025	272	307	64	34	6-0	21-1	61-9	1.13	0.24	0.37	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2025	275	99	288	29	1-5	6-20	17-54	0.36	1.05	0.56	0.24

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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