CHAMPION: Retornaz Wins 2022 Euro Super Series

SKIP
Joel
Retornaz

Third
Amos
Mosaner

Second
Sebastiano
Arman

Lead
Mattia
Giovanella

Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA) won 9-3 over Korey Dropkin (Duluth, MN) in the Final of the Euro Super Series, held August 25 - 28, 2022 in Stirling, Scotland. To advance to the championship game, Retornaz won 6-2 over Cameron Bryce (Stirling, SCO) in the semifinals of the 2022 Euro Super Series in Stirling, Scotland; and won 6-4 over James Craik (Stirling, SCO) in the quarterfinals.

Retornaz finished 3-0 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Retornaz defeated Jack Strawhorn (Dumfries, SCO) 6-1, then won 9-2 against Kyle Waddell (Glasgow, SCO) and 6-5 against John Shuster (Duluth, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Euro Super Series Championship title, Retornaz earned 41.250 world rankings points along with the $9,155CDN first prize cheque, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 5th place overall with 230.226 total points. Retornaz ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 62.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	81	31	0	0.723	19-7	19-7	5-4	0-0	1-2

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	825	733	455	8.88	5.52	3.37	4.91	3.76	1.81	1.47	1.33

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	396	533	82	56	21-0	42-3	108-10	1.35	0.21	0.50	0.17

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	429	200	373	54	2-1	13-23	36-80	0.47	0.87	0.57	0.31

2024: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Stirling, SCO
2023: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr. , Michael Goodfellow
STIRLING, SCO
2022: Joel Retornaz
Joel Retornaz, Amos Mosaner, Sebastiano Arman, Mattia Giovanella
Trentino, ITA
2021: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Keller-Meier, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI

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