Watanabe4-1 at 2018 Obihiro ICE Gold Cup

Tokyo, Japan

Fourth
Akira
Otsuka

SKIP
Tomoya
Watanabe

Second
Naoki
Kaneko

Lead
Hiromasa
Yamamoto

Games:	5
Record:	4W - 1L
PF/G:	11.18
PA/G:	5.59
Hammer Efficiency:	0.60
Steal Defense:	0.24
Force Efficiency:	0.75
Steal Efficiency:	0.47

Tomoya Watanabe (Tokyo, JPN) finished 4-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Watanabe defeated Suguru Tsukamoto (Karuizawa, JPN) 10-4, then won 12-1 against Azusa Arakawa (Hokkaido, JPN). Watanabe went on to lose 5-4 against Japan's Kotaro Tani. Watanabe responded with a 5-3 win over Motoyuki Fujisaki (Obihiro, JPN). Watanabe won 7-6 against Japan's Tsubasa Nakagawa in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Obihiro ICE Gold Cup, Watanabe take home 7.221 world rankings points along with the $3,495CDN prize, moving up 37 spots the World Ranking Standings into 140th place overall with 18.863 total points. Watanabe ranks 45th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 7.221 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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