Craik Reaches 2022 Tallinn Mens International Challenger Quarters

SKIP
James
Craik

Third
Mark
Watt

Second
Angus
Bryce

Lead
Blair
Haswell

James Craik (Stirling, SCO) qualified for the 2022 Tallinn Mens International Challenger playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 9-6 against Cameron Bryce (Stirling, SCO). of the 2022 Tallinn Mens International Challenger in Tallinn, Estonia;

Craik finished 4-1 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Craik defeated Fredrik Nyman (Solleftea, SWE) 9-2, then went on to lose 7-1 against Dean Huerlimann (Zug, SUI). Craik responded with a 7-2 win over Eduard Nikolov (Kyiv, UKR). Craik won 6-1 against Margus Tubalkain (Tallinn, EST), then won 5-2 against Ansis Regza (Riga, LAT) in their final qualifying round match.

Craik earned 9.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the Tallinn Mens International Challenger. For week 9 of the event schedule, Craik did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 33rd to 34th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 81.535 total points. Craik ranks 23rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 36.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	45	26	0	0.634	6-5	5-4	2-2	1-0	0-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	519	418	326	8.05	6.28	1.77	4.68	4.22	1.72	1.49	1.10

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	262	307	85	31	12-1	18-2	61-14	1.17	0.32	0.39	0.24

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	257	111	241	26	3-1	5-15	18-51	0.43	0.94	0.57	0.29

2023: Yves Stocker
Yves Stocker, Kim Schwaller, Felix Eberhard, Tom Winkelhausen
Zug, SUI
2022: Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce, Duncan Menzies, Luke Carson, Robin McCall
Stirling, SCO
2021: Marco Hoesli
Marco Hoesli, Philipp Hoesli, Marco Hefti, Justin Hausherr
Glarus, SUI
2019: Jermu Pollanen
Jere Sullanmaa, Jason Moore, Iikko Santti, Jermu Poellaenen
Hyvinkaa, FIN
2018: Ilya Shalamitski
Ilya Shalamitski, Pavel Petrov, Dzimitry Rudnitski, Yevgeny Tamkovich
Minsk, BLR

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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