Iino3-2 at 2016 Minebea Cup

Tokyo, Japan

SKIP
Shota
Iino

Third
Takeshi
Komatsu

Second
Shinya
Iwamoto

Lead
Tadaaki
Morita

Games:	6
Record:	4W - 2L
PF/G:	10.24
PA/G:	4.63
Hammer Efficiency:	0.55
Steal Defense:	0.20
Force Efficiency:	0.60
Steal Efficiency:	0.42

Shota Iino (Tokyo, JPN) finished 3-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Iino defeated Suguru Tsukamoto (Kanagawa, JPN) 8-3, then won 11-3 against Kenji Iwasaki (Miyota, JPN). Iino went on to lose 5-4 against Hiromitsu Fujinaka (Okayama, JPN). Iino responded with a 9-1 win over Kazuhisa Unoura (Osaka, JPN). Iino went on to lose 2-0 against Hayato Matsumura (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Iino earned 0.720 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, dropping 2 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 169th place overall with 14.804 total points. Iino ranks 178th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.720 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

2025: Kotaro Noguchi
Kotaro Noguchi, Yuto Kamada, Hiroshi Kato, Hiromasa Yonehara
, JPN
2023: Kaito Fujii
Kaito Fujii, Miharu Kubota, Ruki Yokoyama, Ryouga Sakurai
Miyota, JPN
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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