Tsukamoto2-3 at 2015 Minebea Cup

SKIP
Satoru
Tsukamoto

Third
Suguru
Tsukamoto

Second
Manabu
Aoki

Lead
Tatsunori
Naganuma

Satoru Tsukamoto (Kanagawa, JPN) finished 2-3 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tsukamoto defeated Japan's Tasuhiro Morita 9-5, then went on to lose 6-5 against Japan's Hiroshi Fukui. Tsukamoto lost 7-4 to Japan's Ryo Ogihara. Tsukamoto lost 10-1 to Japan's Junpei Kanda where Tsukamoto responded with a 10-0 win over Japan's Kenji Iwasaki in their final qualifying round match.

Tsukamoto earned 0.305 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 315th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 1.505 total points. Tsukamoto ranks 214th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.305 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

2017: Satoru Tsukamoto
Satoru Tsukamoto, Suguru Tsukamoto, Yuma Endo, Nobuhito Kasahara, Tatsunori Naganuma
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Ryo Ogihara
Ryo Ogihara, Kohei Okamura, Tatsuya Hayashi, Daiki Yamazaki
Karuizawa, JPN
2015: Arihito Kasahara
Arihito Kasahara, Akira Ohtsuka, Yuta Higuchi, Akihiro Yokokura
, JPN

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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