Pollanen4-3 at 2020 Men's World Qualification Event

Fourth
Jere
Sullanmaa

Third
Jason
Moore

Second
Iikko
Santti

SKIP
Jermu
Poellaenen

Jermu Pollanen (Hyvinkaa, FIN) finished 4-3 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Pollanen defeated Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) 8-3, then went on to lose 8-7 against Borys Jasiecki (Sopot, POL). Pollanen responded with a 10-7 win over Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Pollanen won 13-0 against Diego Tompkins (Mexico City, MEX). Pollanen went on to lose 9-4 against Andrew Reed (Kent, ENG). Pollanen lost 12-5 to Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN) where Pollanen responded with a 12-7 win over Sergei Glukhov (Moscow, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.

Pollanen earned 4.084 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 5 spots the World Ranking Standings into 92nd place overall with 49.823 total points. Pollanen ranks 85th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 47.802 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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