CHAMPION: Gushue Wins 2013 Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau

SKIP
Brad
Gushue

Third
Brett
Gallant

Second
Adam
Casey

Lead
Geoff
Walker

Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) won 6-3 over Rob Rumfeldt (Guelph, ON) in the Final of the Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau, held October 24 - 27, 2013 at the Buckingham Curling Club in Buckingham, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Gushue won 7-2 over Howard Rajala (Ottawa, ON) in the semifinals of the 2013 Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada; and won 3-2 over Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, ON) in the quarterfinals. of the 2013 Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau in Buckingham, Quebec, Canada;

Gushue finished 4-0 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gushue defeated Gary Rowe (Ottawa, ON) 7-5, then won 5-3 against Craig Kochan (Toronto, ON) and 6-4 against Wayne Tuck Jr. (Brantford, ON). Gushue won 4-2 against Brian Lewis (Ottawa, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Challenge Chateau Cartier de Gatineau Championship title, Gushue earned 22.620 world rankings points along with the $11,000CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 7th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 249.605 total points. Gushue ranks 3rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 101.980 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2014	63	27	0	0.700	35-9	18-17	9-8	4-1	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2014	690	551	403	7.99	5.84	2.14	4.83	3.97	1.65	1.47	1.20

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2014	334	433	47	47	13-0	33-0	77-9	1.30	0.14	0.43	0.11

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2014	356	118	356	36	1-3	6-18	19-75	0.33	1.00	0.59	0.24

2009: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Jean Gagnon
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2010: Serge Reid
Serge Reid, Francois Gionest, Simon Collin, Steeve Villeneuve
Saguenay, QC
2011: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Philippe Menard
Gatineau/Levis, QC
2012: Mark Dacey
Mark Dacey, Tommy Sullivan, Stephen Burgess, Andrew Gibson
Halifax, NS
2013: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Brett Gallant, Adam Casey, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2014: Mike McEwen
Mike McEwen, B.J. Neufeld, Matt Wozniak, Denni Neufeld
Winnipeg, MB
2015: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2016: John Epping
John Epping, Mathew Camm, Craig Savill, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2017: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Xiao Ming Xu, Dongxu Jiang, Jia Liang Zang
Harbin, CHN
2018: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Jonathan Beuk, Wesley Forget, Scott Chadwick
Kingston, ON

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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