CHAMPION: Fournier Wins 2022 KW Fall Classic

Toronto, Ontario

SKIP
Michael
Fournier

Third
Kevin
Flewwelling

Second
Sean
Harrison

Lead
Zander
Elmes

Games:	7
Record:	7W - 0L
PF/G:	11.63
PA/G:	4.88
Hammer Efficiency:	0.47
Steal Defense:	0.06
Force Efficiency:	0.45
Steal Efficiency:	0.52

Michael Fournier (Toronto, ON) won 8-5 over Sam Steep (KW, ON) in the Final of the KW Fall Classic, held September 22 - 25, 2022 at the K-W Granite Club in Waterloo, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Fournier won 6-4 over Paul Moffatt (Waterloo, ON) in the semifinals of the 2022 KW Fall Classic in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; and won 5-1 over Brandon Tippin (Bala, ON) in the quarterfinals. of the 2022 KW Fall Classic in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada;

Fournier finished 4-0 in the 15-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Fournier defeated Alex Champ (Kitchener-Waterloo, ON) 7-2, then won 9-7 against Steep and 7-2 against Mark Kean (Ottawa, ON). Fournier won 8-0 against Colton Daly (Georgetown, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the KW Fall Classic Championship title, Fournier earned 22.500 world rankings points along with the $2,600CDN first prize cheque, moving up 21 spots the World Ranking Standings into 55th place overall with 61.534 total points. Fournier ranks 29th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 22.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	23	18	0	0.561	2-1	4-2	1-0	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	291	236	215	8.11	7.39	0.72	4.71	4.26	1.72	1.73	1.03

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	141	165	51	16	7-2	10-4	30-5	1.17	0.36	0.38	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	150	71	164	14	1-3	8-14	7-34	0.47	1.09	0.45	0.29

2023: Alex Champ
Alex Champ, Charlie Richard, DJ Ronaldson, Scott Clinton
Toronto, ON
2022: Michael Fournier
Michael Fournier, Kevin Flewwelling, Sean Harrison, Zander Elmes
Toronto, ON
2021: Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte, Robin Brydone, Duncan McFadzean, Euan Kyle , Greg Drummond
Stirling, SCO
2020: Paul Moffatt
Paul Moffatt, Ben Shane, John Gabel, Kyle Forster
Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
2019: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Masaki Iwai, Ryotaro Shukuya, Kosuke Morozumi
Nagano, JPN
2018: Alexey Timofeev
Alexey Timofeev, Alexey Stukalskiy, Artur Razhabov, Artem Shmakov, Sergei Glukhov
St. Petersburg, RUS
2017: Matthew Hall
Matthew Hall, Jeff Wanless, Joey Hart, David Hart
Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
2016: Richard Krell
Richard Krell, Evan Lilly, Jonah Mondloch, Robert Currie
Waterloo, ON
2015: Rui Liu
Rui Liu, Jia Liang Zang, De Xin Ba, Xiao Ming Xu
Harbin, CHN
2014: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Brett Dekoning, Scott Brandon, Shane Konings
London, ON
2013: Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald, Brett Dekoning, Connor Duhaime, Simon Barrick
London, ON
2012: Mark Kean
Mark Kean, Travis Fanset, Patrick Janssen, Tim March
Toronto, ON
2011: Rob Rumfeldt
Rob Rumfeldt, Adam Spencer, Scott Hodgson, Greg Robinson
Guelph, ON
2010: Greg Balsdon
Greg Balsdon, Chris Ciasnocha, Tyler Morgan, Jamie Farnell
Kingston, ON
2009: Dale Matchett
Dale Matchett, Ryan Werenich, Jeff Gorda, Shawn Kaufman
Bradford, ON
2008: Dale Matchett
Dale Matchett, Ryan Werenich, Jeff Gorda, Shawn Kaufman
Churchill, ON

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