Tsuchiya3-4 at 2012 Kariuzawa International

Nagano, Japan

SKIP
Kai
Tsuchiya

Third
Kie
Igarashi

Second
Mina
Uchibori

Lead
Erika
Otani

Games:	7
Record:	3W - 4L
PF/G:	7.33
PA/G:	8.67
Hammer Efficiency:	0.29
Steal Defense:	0.33
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.29

Kai Tsuchiya (Nagano, JPN) finished 3-4 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Tsuchiya lost 12-1 to Bingyu Wang (Harbin, CHN), then responded with a 9-1 win over Satsuki Fujisawa (nagano, JPN). Tsuchiya won 6-1 against Denmark's Madeleine Dupont. Tsuchiya went on to lose 7-4 against Laura Crocker (Waterloo, ON). Tsuchiya lost 5-3 to Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni where Tsuchiya responded with a 7-4 win over Shinobu Aota (Aomori, JPN). Tsuchiya went on to lose 9-3 against Korea's Ji-Sun Kim in their final qualifying round match.

Tsuchiya earned 2.250 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 54 spots the World Ranking Standings into 162nd place overall with 3.250 total points. Tsuchiya ranks 124th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.250 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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