Zou1-3 at Alberta Curling Series

SKIP
Qiang
Zou

Third
Xiu Yue
Ma

Second
Zhi Yu
Wang

Lead
Jiafeng
Tian

Qiang Zou (Beijing, CHN) finished 1-3 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Zou lost 6-2 to Adam Elsenheimer (Edmonton, AB), then responded with a 8-3 win over Jamie Koe (Yellowknife, NT). Zou went on to lose 4-3 against Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN). Zou lost 7-5 to Andrew Dunbar (Edmonton, AB) in their final qualifying round match.

Zou earned 0.375 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 12 of the event schedule, Zou did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 125th to 132nd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 19.582 total points. Zou ranks 76th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 11.438 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	7	12	0	0.368	1-1	0-2	0-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	127	96	97	7.56	7.64	-0.08	4.49	4.65	1.68	1.64	0.87

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	59	69	32	1	2-0	5-2	13-9	1.17	0.54	0.34	0.32

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	68	27	65	10	0-2	2-4	5-11	0.40	0.96	0.58	0.26

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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