Maeda3-2 at 2024 Aberdeen International Curling Championship

SKIP
Takumi
Maeda

Third
Uryu
Kamikawa

Second
Hiroki
Maeda

Lead
Asei
Nakahara

Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) finished 3-2 in the 24-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Maeda lost 8-4 to Mathias Genner (Kitzbuehel, AUT), droppimg another game, 8-5 to Wouter Gosgens (Zoetermeer, NED) where Maeda responded with a 6-2 win over Xueqing Fei (Beijing, CHN). Maeda won 8-6 against John Shuster (Duluth , MN), then won 6-2 against Michael Brunner (Bern, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

Maeda earned 6.188 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Maeda move up 3 spots after posting a net gain of 3.938 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 41st overall with 78.063 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Maeda ranks 41st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 78.063 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	38	18	0	0.679	14-5	4-5	2-2	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	400	359	254	8.98	6.35	2.63	4.88	4.00	1.84	1.59	1.13

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	196	248	75	25	10-1	23-4	44-10	1.27	0.38	0.45	0.27

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	204	111	179	20	1-4	8-12	16-34	0.54	0.88	0.54	0.37

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Ross Whyte, Robin Brydone, Duncan McFadzean, Euan Kyle
Stirling, SCO
2022: Sixten Totzek
Sixten Totzek, Marc Muskatewitz , Joshua Sutor, Dominik Greindl
Munich, GER
2020: Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller, Michael Brunner, Romano Keller-Meier, Marcel Kaeufeler
Bern, SUI
2019: Peter De Cruz
Benoit Schwarz van-Berkel, Sven Michel, Peter De Cruz, Valentin Tanner
Geneve, SUI
2018: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Edinburgh, SCO
2017: Grant Hardie
Grant Hardie, Blair Fraser, Dave Reid, Duncan Menzies
Dumfries, SCO
2016: David Murdoch
David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO

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