Goto3-1 at 2018 Minebea Mitsumi Cup

Miyota, Japan

SKIP
Masahiko
Goto

Third
Shunsuke
Kubouchi

Second
Shusaku
Osawa

Lead
Shunsuke
Tanaka

Games:	5
Record:	3W - 2L
PF/G:	10.00
PA/G:	6.76
Hammer Efficiency:	0.57
Steal Defense:	0.07
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.35

Masahiko Goto (Miyota, JPN) are currently 3-1 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Goto defeated Satoru Tsukamoto (Kanagawa, JPN) 11-2, then went on to lose 7-3 against Tomoya Watanabe (Tokyo, JPN). Goto responded with a 9-4 win over Kota Onodera (Hokkaido, JPN). Goto won 6-2 against Akira Kageyama (Sagamihara, JPN). In their next game, Goto plays Yasuhiro Morita (Kyoto, JPN) on Saturday at 3:30am and Onodera at 11:30pm.

. Goto gained -0.025 points improving upon their best 3 events, though dropped 4 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 496thplace overall with 0.224 total points. Goto ranks 290th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 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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