CHAMPION: Tirinzoni Wins 2019 Humpty's Champions Cup

Aarau, Switzerland

Fourth
Alina
Paetz

SKIP
Silvana
Tirinzoni

Second
Esther
Neuenschwander

Lead
Melanie
Barbezat

Games:	7
Record:	6W - 1L
PF/G:	7.22
PA/G:	4.81
Hammer Efficiency:	0.33
Steal Defense:	0.14
Force Efficiency:	0.72
Steal Efficiency:	0.34

Silvana Tirinzoni (Aarau, SUI) won 6-3 over Kerri Einarson (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the 2019 Humpty's Champions Cup in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. To advance to the championship game, Tirinzoni won 5-4 over Rachel Homan (Ottawa, ON) in the semifinals and won 4-3 over Robyn Silvernagle (North Battleford, SK) in the quarterfinals.

Tirinzoni finished 3-1 in the 15 team Humpty's Champions Cup qualifying round, held April 23 - 28, 2019 in , . In their opening game, Tirinzoni defeated Vlada Rumyanceva (Moscow, RUS) 8-5, then went on to lose 6-3 against Casey Scheidegger (Lethbridge, AB). Tirinzoni responded with a 6-2 win over Alina Kovaleva (Saint-Petersburg, RUS). Tirinzoni won 7-3 against Einarson in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Humpty's Champions Cup Championship title, Tirinzoni earned 76.144 world rankings points along with the $40,000CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 4th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 36.524 after improving upon their best so far this season. Tirinzoni ranks 4th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 471.644 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2019	6	1	0	0.857	1-0	4-1	2-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2019	54	39	26	7.22	4.81	2.41	5.37	3.89	1.34	1.24	0.74

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2019	22	27	3	1	0-0	2-0	5-0	1.23	0.14	0.33	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2019	32	12	23	3	0-0	0-0	1-5	0.38	0.72	0.72	0.34

2019: Silvana Tirinzoni
Alina Paetz, Silvana Tirinzoni, Esther Neuenschwander, Melanie Barbezat
Aarau, SUI
2018: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Emma Miskew, Joanne Courtney, Lisa Weagle
Ottawa, ON
2017: Rachel Homan
Rachel Homan, Emma Miskew, Sarah Wilkes, Lisa Weagle
Ottawa, ON
2016: Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen
Winnipeg, MB

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