Yamashita1-4 at 2017 Minebea Mitsumi Cup

SKIP
Takefumi
Yamashita

Third
Shusaku
Takata

Second
Kazunari
Ogawa

Lead
Tadashi
Tatematsu

Takefumi Yamashita (Kakogawa, JPN) finished 1-4 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yamashita lost 8-5 to Arihito Kasahara (Tokyo, JPN), droppimg another game, 7-3 to Kazuhisa Unoura (Osaka, JPN). Yamashita lost 7-5 to Kota Onodera (Hokkaido, JPN). Yamashita lost 9-6 to Kenji Iwasaki (Miyota, JPN) where Yamashita responded with a 11-4 win over Yasuhiro Sano (Morioka, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Yamashita earned 0.166 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 211 spots the World Ranking Standings into 515th place overall with 0.166 total points. Yamashita ranks 227th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.166 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

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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