Zou3-3 at 2018 Curling World Cup Omaha

SKIP
Qiang
Zou

Third
Zhi Yu
Wang

Second
Jingtao
Xu

Lead
Zhilin
Shao

Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) finished 3-3 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Zou defeated John Shuster (Duluth, USA) 4-3, then went on to lose 6-3 against Jason Gunnlaugson (Winnipeg, CAN). Zou responded with a 5-3 win over Bruce Mouat (Stirling, SCO). Zou went on to lose 6-5 against Shuster. Zou responded with a 10-6 win over Gunnlaugson. Zou went on to lose 9-1 against Mouat in their final qualifying round match.

Zou earned 19.020 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Curling World Cup Omaha. Zou move up 8 spots after posting a net gain of 16.427 points improving upon their best 7 results so far this season, ranking 48th overall with 94.751 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Zou ranks 42nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 74.646 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

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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