Ulsrud5-2 at 2019 Grand Prix Bern Inter Curling Challenge

SKIP
Thomas
Ulsrud

Third
Steffen
Walstad

Second
Markus
Hoiberg

Lead
Magnus
Vaagberg

Thomas Ulsrud (Oppdal, NOR) finished 5-2 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Ulsrud defeated Timo Daniel (Laufen, SUI) 10-2, then won 8-7 against Simon Gempeler (Adelboden, SUI) and 8-4 against Jan Hess (Zug, SUI) to advance to a A-Qualifier game where they lost 8-6 against Joel Retornaz (Pinerolo, ITA). Ulsrud responded with a 10-5 win over Alberto Pimpini (Turin, ITA) to advance to a B-Qualifier game where they lost 8-2 against Hess to drop into a C-Qualifier game where they responded with a 6-4 win over Felix Attinger (Dubendorf, SUI) to advance to the playoff round. in their final qualifying round match.

Ulsrud earned 18.000 world rankings points for their Top 3 finish in the Grand Prix Bern Inter Curling Challenge, remaining in 20th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of -1.254 after improving upon their best so far this season. Ulsrud ranks 16th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 94.811 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: James Craik
James Craik, Mark Watt, Angus Bryce, Blair Haswell
Forfar, SCO
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

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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