Gulbis1-4 at 2015 Curling Masters Champery

Riga, Latvia

SKIP
Ritvars
Gulbis

Third
Normunds
Sarsuns

Second
Aivars
Avotins

Lead
Arturs
Gerhards

Games:	5
Record:	1W - 4L
PF/G:	6.32
PA/G:	8.16
Hammer Efficiency:	0.30
Steal Defense:	0.29
Force Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Efficiency:	0.06

Ritvars Gulbis (Riga, LAT) finished 1-4 in the 24 team Curling Masters Champery qualifying round, held October 22 - 25, 2015 in , . In their opening game, Gulbis lost 8-4 to James Grattan (Oromocto , NB), droppimg another game, 8-7 to Kyle Smith (Perth, SCO) where Gulbis responded with a 6-3 win over Kevin Wunderlin (Biel, SUI). Gulbis went on to lose 7-6 against Alexander Baumann (Fuessen, GER). Gulbis lost 5-1 to Reto Keller (Bern, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Gulbis earned 0.809 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 5 spots the World Ranking Standings into 190th place overall with 9.155 total points. Gulbis ranks 159th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 5.155 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	1	4	0	0.200	0-3	1-1	0-2	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	38	24	31	6.32	8.16	-1.84	3.95	5.53	1.60	1.48	0.53

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	21	23	7	1	1-0	1-0	4-1	1.10	0.33	0.30	0.29

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	17	1	24	1	0-0	0-2	0-5	0.06	1.41	0.53	0.06

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