Tsukamoto2-3 at 2016 Minebea Cup

SKIP
Suguru
Tsukamoto

Third
Akihito
Kasahara

Second
Yuma
Endo

Lead
Hideyuki
Sato

Suguru Tsukamoto (Kanagawa, JPN) finished 2-3 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tsukamoto lost 8-3 to Shota Iino (Tokyo, JPN), then responded with a 8-5 win over Hiromitsu Fujinaka (Okayama, JPN). Tsukamoto went on to lose 4-3 against Kazuhisa Unoura (Osaka, JPN). Tsukamoto lost 10-1 to Hayato Matsumura (Karuizawa, JPN) where Tsukamoto responded with a 7-5 win over Kenji Iwasaki (Miyota, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Tsukamoto earned 0.360 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 60 spots the World Ranking Standings into 463rd place overall with 0.436 total points. Tsukamoto ranks 213th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.360 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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