Natsuizaka1-4 at 2016 Minebea Cup

Aomori City, Japan

SKIP
Taiki
Natsuizaka

Third
Masaki
Fujimura

Second
Tetsuo
Yamaguchi

Lead
Takahiko
Yoshida

Games:	6
Record:	1W - 5L
PF/G:	6.19
PA/G:	11.67
Hammer Efficiency:	0.33
Steal Defense:	0.48
Force Efficiency:	0.42
Steal Efficiency:	0.18

Taiki Natsuizaka (Aomori City, JPN) finished 1-4 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Natsuizaka defeated Yasuhiro Morita (Kyoto, JPN) 9-8, then went on to lose 7-3 against Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN). Natsuizaka lost 5-4 to Hiromitsu Kuriyama (Nagano, JPN). Natsuizaka lost 7-2 to Arihito Kasahara (Tokyo, JPN). Natsuizaka lost 12-3 to Hideaki Nakamura (Okayama, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Natsuizaka earned 0.180 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 11 spots the World Ranking Standings into 374th place overall with 1.676 total points. Natsuizaka ranks 226th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.180 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

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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