2013 United States Men's Curling Championship

2013 United States Men's Curling Championship
2013 United States Men's Curling Championship
	2013 United States Men's Curling Championship
Host city	Green Bay, Wisconsin
Arena	Cornerstone Community Center
Dates	February 9–16
Winner	Washington (state) Brady Clark
Curling club	Granite CC, Seattle
Skip	Brady Clark
Third	Sean Beighton
Second	Darren Lehto
Lead	Philip Tilker
Alternate	Steve Lundeen
Finalist	Minnesota Tyler George
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The 2013 United States Men's Curling Championship was held from February 9 to 16 at the Cornerstone Community Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin.^[1] It was held in conjunction with the 2013 United States Women's Curling Championship. The winning team represented the United States at the 2013 World Men's Curling Championship in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The championship also acted as a qualifier to the 2014 United States Olympic Curling Trials, awarding qualifying spots to the winners and runners-up of the championship.^[2]

Road to the Nationals

A total of ten teams qualified to participate in the men's national championship through the High Performance Program, through the World Curling Tour Order of Merit, or through a challenge round.^[3]

Teams

Ten teams participated in the national championship. The teams are listed as follows:^[4]

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate	Locale	Qualification Method
Pete Fenson	Shawn Rojeski	Joe Polo	Ryan Brunt		Minnesota Bemidji, Minnesota	High Performance Program team^[5]
Heath McCormick	Bill Stopera	Martin Sather	Dean Gemmell	Matt Hames	New York (state) New York, New York	High Performance Program team^[5]
Chris Plys (fourth)	Tyler George (skip)	Richard Ruohonen	Colin Hufman		Minnesota Duluth, Minnesota	Order of Merit^[6]
John Shuster	Jeff Isaacson	Jared Zezel	John Landsteiner		Minnesota Duluth, Minnesota	Order of Merit^[6]
Craig Brown	Kroy Nernberger	Matt Hamilton	Jon Brunt		Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin	Challenge Round
Greg Persinger	Nicholas Myers	Sean Murray	Tim Gartner		Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska	Challenge Round
Ryan Lemke	Nate Gebert	John Lilla	Casey Konopacky		Wisconsin Medford, Wisconsin	Challenge Round
Brady Clark	Sean Beighton	Darren Lehto	Philip Tilker	Steve Lundeen	Washington (state) Seattle, Washington	Challenge Round^[7]
Mike Farbelow	Kevin Deeren	Kraig Deeren	Mark Lazar		Minnesota St. Paul, Minnesota	Challenge Round
Todd Birr	Doug Pottinger	Greg Romaniuk	Thomas O'Connor	Kevin Birr	Minnesota Mankato, Minnesota	Challenge Round

Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings

Key
	Teams to playoffs
	Teams to tiebreakers

Skip	W	L	PF	PA	Ends won	Ends Lost	Blank ends	Stolen ends	Shot pct.
Minnesota Tyler George	7	2	67	41	41	29	8	13	83%
Minnesota John Shuster	7	2	64	45	38	33	10	11	82%
Washington (state) Brady Clark	5	4	57	52	40	32	6	10	75%
Minnesota Pete Fenson	5	4	50	56	33	38	11	6	79%
New York (state) Heath McCormick	5	4	59	43	36	27	10	11	78%
Wisconsin Craig Brown	5	4	64	58	35	39	12	5	81%
Minnesota Mike Farbelow	5	4	56	55	36	30	8	12	77%
Alaska Greg Persinger	3	6	38	60	27	37	9	3	72%
Minnesota Todd Birr	3	6	52	60	35	42	7	10	77%
Wisconsin Ryan Lemke	0	9	35	75	25	39	11	6	74%

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in Central Standard Time (UTC−6).^[8]

Draw 1

Saturday, February 9, 8:30 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New York (state) Heath McCormick (has hammer)	1	1	2	0	3	2	X	X	X	X	9
Minnesota Todd Birr	0	0	0	1	0	0	X	X	X	X	1

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Wisconsin Craig Brown	0	2	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	7
Minnesota Pete Fenson (has hammer)	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	1	8

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota Tyler George (has hammer)	1	0	0	2	0	2	0	2	1	0	8
Washington (state) Brady Clark	0	3	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	2	9

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wisconsin Ryan Lemke	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	5
Alaska Greg Persinger (has hammer)	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	6

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota Mike Farbelow	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	X	5
Minnesota John Shuster (has hammer)	2	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	2	X	8

Draw 2

Sunday, February 9, 12:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota John Shuster	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	3
Washington (state) Brady Clark (has hammer)	1	0	1	1	0	2	1	0	1	X	7

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota Mike Farbelow	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	5
Minnesota Todd Birr (has hammer)	1	0	2	0	0	2	0	2	0	2	9

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Alaska Greg Persinger	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	3
Minnesota Pete Fenson (has hammer)	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	X	4

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota Tyler George (has hammer)	1	0	3	0	3	0	1	0	1	X	9
Wisconsin Craig Brown	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	X	5

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wisconsin Ryan Lemke	0	0	2	0	1	0	X	X	X	X	3
New York (state) Heath McCormick (has hammer)	0	3	0	4	0	2	X	X	X	X	9

Draw 3

Sunday, February 9, 8:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota Tyler George	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	X	3
Minnesota Pete Fenson (has hammer)	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	2	X	6

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Washington (state) Brady Clark (has hammer)	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	2	X	9
Wisconsin Ryan Lemke	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	X	4

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wisconsin Craig Brown	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	2	0	6
Minnesota John Shuster (has hammer)	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	1	7

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota Mike Farbelow	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	X	X	3
New York (state) Heath McCormick (has hammer)	0	0	2	0	2	0	3	2	X	X	9

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Alaska Greg Persinger	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	6
Minnesota Todd Birr (has hammer)	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	4

Draw 4

Monday, February 10, 12:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Minnesota Todd Birr (has hammer)	0	0	2	1	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	7
Wisconsin Craig Brown	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	8

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New York (state) Heath McCormick (has hammer)	3	0	1	1	0	2	X	X	X	X	7
Alaska Greg Persinger	0	0	0	0	1	0	X	X	X	X	1

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota Mike Farbelow (has hammer)	2	1	0	4	0	2	0	X	X	X	9
Wisconsin Ryan Lemke	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	X	X	X	4

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Washington (state) Brady Clark (has hammer)	2	0	2	2	1	1	X	X	X	X	8
Minnesota Pete Fenson	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	X	X	X	1

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota John Shuster	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	5
Minnesota Tyler George (has hammer)	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	6

Draw 5

Monday, February 10, 8:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Alaska Greg Persinger (has hammer)	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	X	X	3
Minnesota Tyler George	0	2	1	1	2	0	0	3	X	X	9

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wisconsin Ryan Lemke	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	X	X	3
Wisconsin Craig Brown (has hammer)	0	0	2	0	0	3	0	4	X	X	9

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Washington (state) Brady Clark (has hammer)	1	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	1	X	7
New York (state) Heath McCormick	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	X	4

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota Todd Birr	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	6
Minnesota John Shuster (has hammer)	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	7

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Minnesota Pete Fenson	0	2	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	8
Minnesota Mike Farbelow (has hammer)	2	0	2	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	9

Draw 6

Tuesday, February 11, 2:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Washington (state) Brady Clark	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	X	X	3
Minnesota Mike Farbelow (has hammer)	0	2	1	0	4	0	1	1	X	X	9

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota John Shuster	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	2	6
New York (state) Heath McCormick (has hammer)	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	5

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota Todd Birr (has hammer)	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	5
Minnesota Tyler George	3	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota Pete Fenson (has hammer)	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	7
Wisconsin Ryan Lemke	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	5

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wisconsin Craig Brown	0	3	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	2	9
Alaska Greg Persinger (has hammer)	1	0	2	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	8

Draw 7

Wednesday, February 12, 8:00 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota Pete Fenson (has hammer)	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	3	0	7
New York (state) Heath McCormick	0	2	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	8

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota Todd Birr	1	0	0	3	2	0	1	0	X	X	7
Washington (state) Brady Clark (has hammer)	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	X	X	3

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota John Shuster (has hammer)	5	1	0	0	0	4	X	X	X	X	10
Alaska Greg Persinger	0	0	1	1	0	0	X	X	X	X	2

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wisconsin Craig Brown (has hammer)	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	X	4
Minnesota Mike Farbelow	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	3	X	7

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota Tyler George (has hammer)	2	0	3	0	2	1	X	X	X	X	8
Wisconsin Ryan Lemke	0	0	0	1	0	0	X	X	X	X	1

Draw 8

Wednesday, February 12, 4:00 pm

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wisconsin Ryan Lemke	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	X	4
Minnesota John Shuster (has hammer)	2	0	1	2	1	0	0	2	2	X	10

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota Tyler George (has hammer)	3	0	0	4	0	1	1	X	X	X	9
Minnesota Mike Farbelow	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	X	X	2

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New York (state) Heath McCormick	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	X	X	3
Wisconsin Craig Brown (has hammer)	0	0	1	0	2	0	3	2	X	X	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Alaska Greg Persinger	0	1	0	0	3	0	1	0	3	X	8
Washington (state) Brady Clark (has hammer)	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	X	5

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota Todd Birr	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	1	X	5
Minnesota Pete Fenson (has hammer)	1	0	2	0	0	3	2	0	0	X	8

Draw 9

Thursday, February 13, 8:00 am

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota Mike Farbelow (has hammer)	1	2	1	0	3	X	X	X	X	X	7
Alaska Greg Persinger	0	0	0	1	0	X	X	X	X	X	1

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota Pete Fenson	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	X	X	X	1
Minnesota John Shuster (has hammer)	1	0	0	2	0	4	1	X	X	X	8

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Wisconsin Ryan Lemke	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	6
Minnesota Todd Birr (has hammer)	0	0	2	0	4	0	0	0	1	1	8

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New York (state) Heath McCormick	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	X	5
Minnesota Tyler George (has hammer)	2	0	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	X	7

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Washington (state) Brady Clark	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	6
Wisconsin Craig Brown (has hammer)	2	0	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	1	8

Tiebreakers

Semifinals		To Playoffs

		Minnesota Mike Farbelow	6
New York (state) Heath McCormick	7	New York (state) Heath McCormick	9
Minnesota Pete Fenson	5

To Playoffs

1	Washington (state) Brady Clark	9

2	Wisconsin Craig Brown	8

Thursday, February 14, 2:00 pm

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New York (state) Heath McCormick	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	3	X	7
Minnesota Pete Fenson (has hammer)	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	X	5

Player percentages
New York (state) Heath McCormick		Minnesota Pete Fenson
Dean Gemmell	86%	Ryan Brunt	79%
Martin Sather	82%	Joe Polo	83%
Bill Stopera	84%	Shawn Rojeski	72%
Heath McCormick	87%	Pete Fenson	80%
Total	85%	Total	79%

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Wisconsin Craig Brown (has hammer)	0	2	0	1	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	8
Washington (state) Brady Clark	1	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	3	0	1	9

Player percentages
Wisconsin Craig Brown		Washington (state) Brady Clark
Jon Brunt	87%	Phil Tilker	78%
Matt Hamilton	77%	Darren Lehto	82%
Kroy Nernberger	74%	Sean Beighton	84%
Craig Brown	80%	Brady Clark	89%
Total	79%	Total	83%

Thursday, February 14, 8:00 pm

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
New York (state) Heath McCormick (has hammer)	0	0	2	0	0	3	0	3	0	1	9
Minnesota Mike Farbelow	2	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	6

Player percentages
New York (state) Heath McCormick		Minnesota Mike Farbelow
Dean Gemmell	70%	Mark Lazar	85%
Martin Sather	81%	Kraig Deeren	83%
Bill Stopera	84%	Kevin Deeren	60%
Heath McCormick	80%	Mike Farbelow	68%
Total	79%	Total	74%

Playoffs


Page playoff system			Semifinal			Final



1	Minnesota Tyler George	6				1	Minnesota Tyler George	5

2	Minnesota John Shuster	4				3	Washington (state) Brady Clark	6

			2	Minnesota John Shuster	5

			3	Washington (state) Brady Clark	6

3	Washington (state) Brady Clark	7

4	New York (state) Heath McCormick	4

1 vs. 2

Friday, February 14, 9:00 am

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota Tyler George (has hammer)	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	6
Minnesota John Shuster	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	4

Player percentages
Minnesota Tyler George		Minnesota John Shuster
Colin Hufman	76%	John Landsteiner	76%
Richard Ruohonen	83%	Jared Zezel	77%
Tyler George	80%	Jeff Isaacson	92%
Chris Plys	85%	John Shuster	70%
Total	81%	Total	79%

3 vs. 4

Friday, February 14, 9:00 am

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Washington (state) Brady Clark	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	1	1	X	7
New York (state) Heath McCormick (has hammer)	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	X	4

Player percentages
Washington (state) Brady Clark		New York (state) Heath McCormick
Phil Tilker	79%	Dean Gemmell	82%
Darren Lehto	78%	Martin Sather	73%
Sean Beighton	73%	Bill Stopera	85%
Brady Clark	82%	Heath McCormick	70%
Total	78%	Total	77%

Semifinal

Friday, February 14, 8:00 pm

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota John Shuster (has hammer)	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	5
Washington (state) Brady Clark	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	6

Player percentages
Minnesota John Shuster		Washington (state) Brady Clark
John Landsteiner	80%	Phil Tilker	84%
Jared Zezel	93%	Darren Lehto	75%
Jeff Isaacson	93%	Sean Beighton	92%
John Shuster	63%	Brady Clark	68%
Total	82%	Total	80%

Final

Saturday, February 15, 3:00 pm

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Minnesota Tyler George (has hammer)	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	5
Washington (state) Brady Clark	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	2	6

Player percentages
Minnesota Tyler George		Washington (state) Brady Clark
Colin Hufman	86%	Phil Tilker	82%
Richard Ruohonen	84%	Darren Lehto	84%
Tyler George	73%	Sean Beighton	71%
Chris Plys	65%	Brady Clark	77%
Total	77%	Total	79%

References

↑ "Green Bay to host 2013 National Championships" (PDF). USA Curling. 25 October 2011.
↑ "U.S. Curling Association – Athlete Selection Procedures for the 2014 Olympic Games" (PDF). USA Curling. 19 August 2011.
↑ "2012–2013 USCA Rules of Curling and Competition" (PDF). United States Curling Association. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
↑ "Qualified teams, 2013 National Championships". United States Curling Association. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 "USCA Year to Date Order of Merit as of Tuesday, November 27th, 2012" (PDF). USA Curling. 27 November 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2012.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 "USCA Year to Date Order of Merit as of Tuesday, December 18th, 2012" (PDF). USA Curling. 18 December 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
↑ Olympic Trials
↑ "2013 United States Men's Curling Championship – Draw Schedule" (PDF). United States Curling Association. Retrieved 21 January 2013.

External links

[1] "Green Bay to host 2013 National Championships" (PDF). USA Curling. 25 October 2011.

[2] "U.S. Curling Association – Athlete Selection Procedures for the 2014 Olympic Games" (PDF). USA Curling. 19 August 2011.

[rules-3] "2012–2013 USCA Rules of Curling and Competition" (PDF). United States Curling Association. Retrieved 6 December 2012.

[4] "Qualified teams, 2013 National Championships". United States Curling Association. Retrieved 9 January 2013.

[OOM_HPP-5] 5.0 ^5.1 "USCA Year to Date Order of Merit as of Tuesday, November 27th, 2012" (PDF). USA Curling. 27 November 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2012.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[OOM_qual-6] 6.0 ^6.1 "USCA Year to Date Order of Merit as of Tuesday, December 18th, 2012" (PDF). USA Curling. 18 December 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2012.

[7] Olympic Trials

[8] "2013 United States Men's Curling Championship – Draw Schedule" (PDF). United States Curling Association. Retrieved 21 January 2013.

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