World Mens Curling Championship
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Iwai3-9 at 2018 World Mens Curling Championship
Mar 30 - Apr 8, 2018

Hokkaido, Japan
![]() Fourth Go Aoki |
![]() SKIP Masaki Iwai |
![]() Second Ryotaro Shukuya |
![]() Lead Yutaka Aoyama |
| Games: | 12 |
| Record: | 3W - 9L |
| PF/G: | 5.61 |
| PA/G: | 8.13 |
| Hammer Efficiency: | 0.31 |
| Steal Defense: | 0.20 |
| Force Efficiency: | 0.39 |
| Steal Efficiency: | 0.11 |
Masaki Iwai (Hokkaido, JPN) finished 3-9 in the 13-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Iwai lost 6-5 to Rich Ruohonen (Seattle, USA), droppimg another game, 9-2 to Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR). Iwai lost 8-4 to Steffen Walstad (Oppdal, NOR) where Iwai responded with a 7-6 win over Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). Iwai won 7-4 against De Jia Zou (Harbin, CHN). Iwai went on to lose 6-5 against Alexey Timofeev (Moscow, RUS). Iwai lost 9-2 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN). Iwai lost 10-6 to Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA). Iwai lost 9-2 to Bruce Mouat (Edinburgh, SCO) where Iwai responded with a 8-3 win over Alexander Baumann (Baden-Baden, GER). Iwai went on to lose 10-9 against Marc Pfister (Adelboden, SUI). Iwai lost 7-3 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in their final qualifying round match.
Iwai earned 7.248 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 72 spots the World Ranking Standings into 225th place overall with 17.223 total points. Iwai ranks 157th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 17.223 points earned so far this season.
| RECORD | W | L | T | PCT | HMR | STL | 1PT | EEH | EES |
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| SCORING | ENDs | PF | PA | PF/G | PA/G | +/- | EF/G | EA/G | PF/E | PA/E | BE/G |
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| WITH HAMMER | ENDs | PF | PA | BE | 4s | 3s | 2s | PF/E | PA/E | HE | SD |
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| WITHOUT HAMMER | ENDs | PF | PA | BE | 4s | 3s | 2s | PF/E | PA/E | FE | SE |
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