As we are now into the second day of the Players’ Championship, I thought I add to my comments earlier about the men’s qualifying for the curling trials spots.
Here, I want to look at who could get those other two automatic berths to Edmonton and the final trials, skipping past Prince George and the pre-trials.
Only two rinks can possibly earn the three-year accumulated total berth into the Edmonton trials.
Kevin Koe is tops on the three-year list among teams that have not qualified for Edmonton (which is Kevin Martin and Glenn Howard).
Koe is 45 points ahead of Jeff Stoughton, meaning he cannot be caught by Stoughton. The only person who can catch up Randy Ferbey. To do so, Ferbey will need to do 20 points better than Koe at the Players’.
If Koe wins the three-year, then this will leave it up to the two-year accumulated total berth and that will be a real dogfight.
Right now, Koe is tops among teams on the two-year list that don’t yet have a spot in Edmonton. If Ferbey somehow passed Koe on the three-year list, he still has a shot with this list.
However, if Koe wins the three-year berth then this leaves the two-year spot wide open with four teams in range to earn it.
Wayne Middaugh is after Koe with 343.645 points on the two-year list. Then comes Kerry Burtnyk at 332.325, then Jeff Stoughton at 331.7 and finally Ferbey, way back at at 316.288.
So, for the final two direct berths to Edmonton, Kevin Koe is not a lock but he has a firm grip on at least one of the spots. The other teams up for the spots are Ferbey, Middaugh, Burtnyk and Stoughton.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Koe is guaranteed a direct berth, since he can't be passed in BOTH the 3-year and 2-year CTRS totals.
ReplyDelete