Kanda3-5 at 2020 Japan National Championship

SKIP
Junpei
Kanda

Third
Hiromu
Otani

Second
Kizuki
Ryokawa

Lead
Shotaro
Hashimoto

Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN) finished 3-5 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kanda lost 6-3 to Yuya Takigahira (Nayoro, JPN), droppimg another game, 8-3 to Yuta Matsumura (Kitami, JPN). Kanda lost 9-6 to Ryutaro Tani (Hokkaido, JPN) where Kanda responded with a 6-1 win over Hiroki Yoshioka (Okayama, JPN). Kanda went on to lose 9-2 against Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN). Kanda responded with a 11-8 win over Kotaro Noguchi (Miyagi, JPN). Kanda won 8-7 against Kantaro Kawano (Sapporo, JPN). Kanda went on to lose 10-1 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Kanda earned 4.587 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 30 of the event schedule, Kanda did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Kanda 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

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