CHAMPION: Jacobs Wins 2019 Kioti Tractor Tour Challenge Tier 1

Sault Ste Marie, Northern Ontario

SKIP
Brad
Jacobs

Third
Marc
Kennedy

Second
E.J.
Harnden

Lead
Ryan
Harnden

Games:	7
Record:	6W - 1L
PF/G:	8.78
PA/G:	5.92
Hammer Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Defense:	0.09
Force Efficiency:	0.65
Steal Efficiency:	0.19

Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, NONT) won 6-4 over Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) in the Final of the Kioti Tractor Tour Challenge Tier 1, held November 5 - 10, 2019 in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. To advance to the championship game, Jacobs won 7-3 over Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, AB) in the semifinals of the 2019 Kioti Tractor Tour Challenge Tier 1 in Pictou County, Nova Scotia; and won 7-5 over Glenn Howard (Penetanguishene , ON) in the quarterfinals. of the 2019 Kioti Tractor Tour Challenge Tier 1 in Pictou County, Nova Scotia;

Jacobs finished 3-1 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Jacobs lost 9-4 to Bottcher, then responded with a 6-3 win over Jason Gunnlaugson (Winnipeg, MB). Jacobs won 6-3 against Yannick Schwaller (Bern, SUI), then won 7-2 against Matt Dunstone (Regina , SK) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Kioti Tractor Tour Challenge Tier 1 Championship title, Jacobs earned 81.085 world rankings points along with the $30,000CDN first prize cheque, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 2nd place overall with 495.895 total points. Jacobs ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 239.612 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

2023: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Mattia Giovanella
Trentino, ITA
2022: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2019: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Marc Kennedy, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
Sault Ste Marie, NONT
2018: Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs, Ryan Fry, E.J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden
Sault Ste Marie, NONT
2017: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant, Geoff Walker , Jules Owchar
St. John's, NL
2016: Niklas Edin
Niklas Edin, Oskar Eriksson, Rasmus Wrana, Christoffer Sundgren
Karlstad, SWE
2015: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB

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