Morozumi Runner-Up at 2022 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

SKIP
Yusuke
Morozumi

Third
Yuta
Matsumura

Second
Ryotaro
Shukuya

Lead
Kosuke
Morozumi

Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) lost 6-4 to Takumi Maeda (Sapporo, JPN) in the Final of the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup, held August 18 - 21, 2022 in Hokkaido, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Morozumi won 7-2 over Japan's Kotaro Noguchi in the semifinals

Morozumi finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morozumi defeated Japan's Juon Ishimura 12-4, then won 9-2 against Toshiya Iida (Ikeuikan, JPN) and 7-3 against Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup, Morozumi take home 11.000 world rankings points along with the $500,000CDN prize, moving up 17 spots the World Ranking Standings into 49th place overall with 52.662 total points. Morozumi ranks 6th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 22.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	32	25	0	0.561	8-1	2-3	1-2	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	393	322	271	8.19	6.90	1.30	4.96	4.48	1.65	1.54	0.56

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	184	203	74	6	2-2	18-2	40-6	1.10	0.40	0.34	0.31

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	209	119	197	16	1-5	11-14	20-35	0.57	0.94	0.55	0.35

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2023: Yusuke Morozumi
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