Gulbis

Riga, Latvia

SKIP
Ritvars
Gulbis

Third
Aivars
Avotins

Second
Anrijs Mikuss
Briezkalns

Lead
Rihards
Jeske

Games:	5
Record:	2W - 3L
PF/G:	7.39
PA/G:	9.57
Hammer Efficiency:	0.40
Steal Defense:	0.35
Force Efficiency:	0.31
Steal Efficiency:	0.15

Ritvars Gulbis (Riga, LAT) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, failed to advance to the playoff round, losing in the tiebreaker round, Gulbis finished 1-2 in the 8 team Baltic Super League qualifying round, held January 10 - 12, 2020 at the Riga Curling Hall in Riga, Latvia. In their opening game, Gulbis defeated Karlis Smilga (Jelgava, LAT) 9-8, then went on to lose 11-7 against Tobias Thune (Hvidovre, DEN). Gulbis lost 11-4 to Kriss Vonda (Riga, LAT) in their final qualifying round match.

Gulbis earned 0.759 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Gulbis gained -0.63 points improving upon their best 8 events, though dropped 12 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 335thplace overall with 3.536 total points. Gulbis ranks 430th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.759 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	2	3	0	0.400	2-1	0-2	1-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
	46	34	44	7.39	9.57	-2.17	4.13	5.43	1.79	1.76	0.43

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	26	30	11	1	0-0	4-0	6-2	1.15	0.42	0.40	0.35

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	20	4	33	1	0-1	0-4	1-6	0.20	1.65	0.31	0.15

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