Kuriyama

SKIP
Hiromitsu
Kuriyama

Third
Ryo
Kawanishi

Second
Katsuhito
Sumi

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Hiromitsu Kuriyama (Karuizawa, JPN) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Kuriyama finished 1-4 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kuriyama lost 4-3 to Masahiko Goto (Miyota, JPN), droppimg another game, 4-2 to Satoru Tsukamoto (Karuizawa, JPN). Kuriyama lost 5-2 to Shunto Tsuchiya (Miyota, JPN). Kuriyama lost 8-4 to Hiromitsu Fujinaka (Okajama, JPN) where Kuriyama responded with a 7-2 win over Shungo Nomizo (Yokohama, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Kuriyama earned 0.332 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 9 of the event schedule, Kuriyama did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Kuriyama ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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

Gangwon Province's Park Jong-duk (Photo: Steve Seixeiro/WCF) will try to make it a second straight national title this week in Uijeongbu.

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