Brunner1-3 at HearingLife Tour Challenge Tier 2

SKIP
Michael
Brunner

Third
Anthony
Petoud

Second
Romano
Keller-Meier

Lead
Andreas
Gerlach

Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI) finished 1-3 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Brunner lost 6-1 to ByeongJin Jeong (Seoul, KOR), droppimg another game, 6-2 to Karsten Sturmay (Edmonton, AB) where Brunner responded with a 5-4 win over Lukas Hostmaelingen (Oslo, NOR). Brunner went on to lose 5-2 against John Epping (Toronto, ON) in their final qualifying round match.

Brunner earned 2.063 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Brunner move up 2 spots after posting a net gain of 3.328 points improving upon their best 4 results so far this season, ranking 19th overall with 164.984 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Brunner ranks 8th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 91.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	55	35	0	0.611	9-5	7-4	4-1	3-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	643	476	404	7.40	6.28	1.12	4.53	4.18	1.64	1.50	1.29

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	318	338	100	39	10-1	23-2	58-14	1.06	0.31	0.33	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	325	138	304	44	2-3	7-16	26-72	0.42	0.94	0.52	0.28

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2022: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Andrew Stopera, Mark Fenner, Thomas Howell
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2019: Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin, Thomas Howell, Mark Fenner, Alex Fenson, Joe Polo, Shawn Rojeski
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2018: Kirk Muyres
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2017: Jason Gunnlaugson
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2016: Greg Balsdon
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Kingston, ON
2015: Jim Cotter
Jim Cotter, Ryan Kuhn, Tyrel Griffith, Rick Sawatsky
Vernon, BC

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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