CHAMPION: Bottcher Wins 2019 Humpty's Champions Cup

SKIP
Brendan
Bottcher

Third
Darren
Moulding

Second
Bradley
Thiessen

Lead
Karrick
Martin

Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) won 6-5 over Kevin Koe (Calgary, AB) in the Final of the Humpty's Champions Cup, held April 23 - 28, 2019 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. To advance to the championship game, Bottcher won 7-2 over Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO) in the semifinals of the 2019 Humpty's Champions Cup in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; and won 4-1 over Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, NONT) in the quarterfinals.

Bottcher finished 4-0 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bottcher defeated Matt Dunstone (Regina, SK) 9-8, then won 6-5 against Tyler Tardi (Langley, BC) and 9-5 against Mouat. Bottcher won 7-2 against Mike McEwen (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Humpty's Champions Cup Championship title, Bottcher earned 78.033 world rankings points along with the $40,000CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 2nd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 53.611 after improving upon their best so far this season. Bottcher ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 494.059 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2022: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2021: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr. , Alan Hannah
Stirling, SCO
2019: Brendan Bottcher
Brendan Bottcher, Darren Moulding, Bradley Thiessen, Karrick Martin
Edmonton, AB
2018: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker
St. John's, NL
2017: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Ryan Fry, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
Sault Ste Marie, NONT
2016: Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers, Braeden Moskowy, Derek Samagalski, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, MB

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

CURLING HISTORY: A Prize Letter

In the run up to Christmas Day, 1893, the Aberdeen Peoples's Journal offered a prize of one guinea for the best letter about curling! That's the invitation... (read more)
EXTRA EXTRA END PODCAST: E20: Two-time U.S. Olympian Jessica...

A quick break for the Memorial Day holiday and we're back with our guest and new USA Curling Womenâs National Team & Juniors Director Jessica Schultz.... (read more)
MIKE THE CURLING GUY: Doing Jello Shots with my Kids...

I am in week 3 of isolation/quarantine/home schooling and getting a little squirrel-y. Personal hygiene has become optional. The kids have watched the entire... (read more)
WORLD CURLING REPORT: November 27th, 2019

On today's World Curling Report...we recap Day 1 of the 2019 Canada Cup. (read more)
FROM THE HACK: From the Hack Podcast - November...

On this week's podcast we focus on the Canada Cup with past champion Reid Carruthers (04:09), Adam Kingsbury - former coach of Team Homan and Team Jacobs (11:53)... (read more)