Japan's Satoshi Okada2-3 at 2015 Minebea Cup

SKIP
Satoshi
Okada

Third
Michio
Hatano

Second
Masato
Takebuchi

Lead
Tomohisa
Honda

Japan's Satoshi Okada finished 2-3 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Japan's Satoshi Okada lost 5-4 to Japan's Hideaki Nakamura, then responded with a 7-3 win over Hiromitsu Kuriyama (Nagano, JPN). Japan's Satoshi Okada went on to lose 6-4 against Japan's Kazuhisa Unoura. Japan's Satoshi Okada responded with a 6-2 win over Japan's Shinpei Matsumoto. Japan's Satoshi Okada went on to lose 9-7 against Japan's Arihito Kasahara in their final qualifying round match.

Japan's Satoshi Okada earned 0.305 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 242 spots the World Ranking Standings into 397th place overall with 0.305 total points. Japan's Satoshi Okada ranks 212th 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

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