Rykov1-6 at Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships

Vilnius, Lithuania

SKIP
Konstantin
Rykov

Third
Povilas
Cepulis

Second
Matas
Cepulis

Lead
Donatas
Kiudys

Games:	8
Record:	2W - 6L
PF/G:	6.03
PA/G:	6.58
Hammer Efficiency:	0.28
Steal Defense:	0.26
Force Efficiency:	0.57
Steal Efficiency:	0.32

Konstantin Rykov (Vilnius, LTU) finished 1-6 in the 16 team Le Gruyere AOP European B Curling Championships qualifying round, held November 16 - 23 in , . In their opening game, Rykov lost 8-6 to Ugurcan Karagoz (Eruzurum, TUR), droppimg another game, 9-5 to Ilya Shalamitski (Minsk, BLR). Rykov lost 6-5 to Eddy Mercier (France). Rykov lost 5-4 to Martins Truksans (Riga, LAT) where Rykov responded with a 8-2 win over Sebastian Wunderer (Kitzbuehel, AUT). Rykov went on to lose 6-4 against Alex Pokras (Metulla, ISR). Rykov lost 8-3 to Borys Jasiecki (Sopot, POL) in their final qualifying round match.

Rykov earned 2.672 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 96 spots the World Ranking Standings into 325th place overall with 4.017 total points. Rykov ranks 260th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 4.017 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2020	2	6	0	0.250	0-2	1-3	0-2	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2020	73	44	48	6.03	6.58	-0.55	4.38	4.38	1.38	1.50	1.23

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2020	35	29	11	6	0-0	1-0	7-2	0.83	0.31	0.28	0.26

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2020	38	15	37	3	0-2	0-0	3-8	0.39	0.97	0.57	0.32

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