[[1:8.5980]] CHAMPION: Yamaguchi Wins 2019 WCT Kurosawa Cup

WCT Kurosawa Cup

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CHAMPION: Yamaguchi Wins 2019 WCT Kurosawa Cup

Jan 12 - 14, 2019

Karuizawa, Japan
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SKIP
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi
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Third
Satoshi
Koizumi
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Second
Fukuhiro
Ohno
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Lead
Taisei
Kanai
  
Games: 7  
Record: 7W - 0L  
PF/G: 13.56  
PA/G: 4.67  
Hammer Efficiency: 0.70  
Steal Defense: 0.25  
Force Efficiency: 0.83  
Steal Efficiency: 0.48  
Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) won 9-4 over Marina Oiwa (Miyota, JPN) in the Final of the WCT Kurosawa Cup, held January 12 - 14, 2019 in Miyota, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Yamaguchi won 9-1 over Kenji Komoda (Sagamihara, JPN) in the semifinals
 
Yamaguchi finished 5-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yamaguchi defeated Yuhei Kusui (Osaka, JPN) 8-4, then won 10-4 against Asuka Kanai (Karuizwaw, JPN) and 10-1 against Yumiko Kashiwagi (Karuizawa, JPN). Yamaguchi won 7-3 against Kota Onodera (Hokkaido, JPN), then won 8-4 against Tomoji Arai (Tokyo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.
 
For winning the WCT Kurosawa Cup Championship title, Yamaguchi earned 8.598 world rankings points along with the $2,428CDN first prize cheque. Yamaguchi move up 26 spots after posting a net gain of 5.466 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 147th overall with 25.325 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Yamaguchi ranks 163rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 19.061 points earned so far this season.
 

Statistics

 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 

Scores

 Draw Team Game Watch
  1 vs. Kusui (JPN) - WTR:513 W 8-4
  3 vs. Kanai (JPN) - WTR:562 W 10-4
  5 vs. Kashiwagi (JPN) - WTR:563 W 10-1
  7 vs. Onodera (JPN) - WTR:509 W 7-3
  9 vs. Arai (JPN) - WTR:559 W 8-4
  SF vs. Komoda (JPN) - WTR:512 W 9-1
  CF vs. Oiwa (JPN) - WTR:561 W 9-4

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W: Curling1spoon Elite 8
Uiseong, KOR
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Draw: CF -- Sun, Aug 2 -- 8:00am CET
Park 8  Final
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