Gempeler2-3 at 2019 Grand Prix Bern Inter Curling Challenge

Adelboden, Switzerland

Fourth
Marc
Pfister

Third
Tim
Jungen

Second
Bjorn
Jungen

SKIP
Simon
Gempeler

Games:	5
Record:	2W - 3L
PF/G:	8.72
PA/G:	6.41
Hammer Efficiency:	0.38
Steal Defense:	0.08
Force Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Efficiency:	0.35

Simon Gempeler (Adelboden, SUI) finished 2-3 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Gempeler lost 8-7 to Thomas Ulsrud (Oppdal, NOR), droppimg another game, 7-6 to Yves Wagenseil (Bern, SUI) where Gempeler responded with a 10-0 win over Marc Strasser (Bern, SUI). Gempeler won 4-2 against Alberto Pimpini (Turin, ITA) to advance to a C-Qualifier game where they lost 8-7 against Lucien Lottenbach (Zug, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Gempeler earned 3.000 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Gempeler move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of -1.349 points improving upon their best 5 results so far this season, ranking 88th overall with 48.541 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Gempeler ranks 97th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 18.092 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: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Mattia Giovanella
Trentino, ITA
2021: Yves Stocker
Philipp Hoesli, Yves Stocker, Marco Hefti, Justin Hausherr
Glarus, SUI
2019: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Simone Gonin
Pinerolo, ITA
2018: Amos Mosaner
Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Andrea Pilzer, Daniele Ferrazza
Trentino, ITA

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