Brunner

SKIP
Michael
Brunner

Third
Romano
Keller-Meier

Second
Anthony
Petoud

Lead
Marcel
Kaeufeler

Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Brunner finished 2-3 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Brunner defeated Fabio Ribotta (Pinerolo, ITA) 7-1, then went on to lose 7-4 against Fredrik Nyman (Solleftea, SWE). Brunner lost 6-4 to James Craik (Stirling, SCO) where Brunner responded with a 7-5 win over Dominik Maerki (Nashville, TN). Brunner went on to lose 6-5 against Christof Schwaller (Glarus, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Brunner earned 3.750 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 13 of the event schedule, Brunner did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 13th place on the World Ranking Standings with 167.054 total points. Brunner ranks 34th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 40.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	35	43	0	0.449	10-9	11-13	4-4	1-0	0-3

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	577	395	416	6.85	7.21	-0.36	4.25	4.51	1.61	1.60	1.25

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	292	315	96	38	3-1	24-6	67-17	1.08	0.33	0.37	0.22

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	285	80	320	34	0-7	7-15	11-73	0.28	1.12	0.52	0.19

2023: James Craik
James Craik, Mark Watt, Angus Bryce, Blair Haswell
Forfar, SCO
2022: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Mattia Giovanella
Trentino, ITA
2021: Yves Stocker
Philipp Hoesli, Yves Stocker, Marco Hefti, Justin Hausherr
Glarus, SUI
2019: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Simone Gonin
Pinerolo, ITA
2018: Amos Mosaner
Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Andrea Pilzer, Daniele Ferrazza
Trentino, ITA

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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