Wakabayashi1-4 at 2020 Keijinkai Rizing Cup

Osaka, Japan

Fourth
Shinji
Okamoto

Third
Kosuke
Yuki

Second
Katsuaki
Yasui

SKIP
Ryo
Wakabayashi

Games:	5
Record:	1W - 4L
PF/G:	5.28
PA/G:	8.33
Hammer Efficiency:	0.28
Steal Defense:	0.40
Force Efficiency:	0.58
Steal Efficiency:	0.19

Ryo Wakabayashi (Osaka, JPN) finished 1-4 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Wakabayashi lost 6-5 to Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN), droppimg another game, 7-3 to Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN). Wakabayashi lost 8-1 to Shun Tanaka (Tokyo, JPN). Wakabayashi lost 5-4 to Tomoya Watanabe (Tokyo, JPN) where Wakabayashi responded with a 6-4 win over Ken Kanai (Yamanashi, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Wakabayashi earned 0.569 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 177 spots the World Ranking Standings into 510th place overall with 0.569 total points. Wakabayashi ranks 452nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.569 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

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