CHAMPION: Roberge Wins 2021 Finale du Circuit

SKIP
Vincent
Roberge

Third
Jean-Michel
Arsenault

Second
Jesse
Mullen

Lead
Julien
Tremblay

Vincent Roberge (LÃ©vis, QC) won 6-4 over Michael Fournier (Montreal, QC) in the Final of the Finale du Circuit, held December 3 - 5, 2021 at the Aurèle Racine Curling Club in Tracy, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Roberge won 6-2 over Alexandre Leduc (Valleyfield, QC) in the semifinals of the 2021 Finale du Circuit in Tracy, Quebec, Canada; and won 5-3 over Robin Duguay (Thurso, QC) in the quarterfinals.

Roberge finished 4-0 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Roberge defeated Gregory Bornais (Quebec, QC) 8-1, then won 5-4 against Alex Berube (Mont-Bruno, QC) and 6-3 against Frederic Lawton (Baie d'Urfe, QC). Roberge won 7-3 against Jean-Sebastien Roy (Chelsea, QC) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Finale du Circuit Championship title, Roberge earned 17.605 world rankings points along with the $1,640CDN first prize cheque, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 36th place overall with 111.791 total points. Roberge ranks 41st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 55.495 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2022	17	10	0	0.630	0-4	0-4	0-2	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2022	210	161	145	7.67	6.90	0.76	4.29	4.33	1.79	1.59	1.38

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2022	111	128	44	17	3-1	12-3	27-8	1.15	0.40	0.45	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2022	99	33	101	12	0-1	2-7	7-18	0.33	1.02	0.60	0.22

2023: Yannick Martel
Yannick Martel, Louis Quevillon, Jean-Francois Charest, Bradley Lequin
Saguenay, QC
2022: Steven Munroe
Steven Munroe, Yannick Martel, Philippe Brassard, Jean-Francois Charest
Saquenay, QC
2021: Vincent Roberge
Vincent Roberge, Jean-Michel Arsenault, Jesse Mullen, Julien Tremblay , Eric Sylvain
LÃ©vis, QC
2018: Steven Munroe
Steven Munroe, Maxime Elmaleh, Jasmin Gibeau, Philippe Brassard
Levis, QC
2017: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Steven Munroe, Philippe Menard
Gatineau, QC
2011: Jean-Michel Menard
Jean-Michel Menard, Martin Crete, Eric Sylvain, Philippe Menard
Gatineau/Levis, QC

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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