CHAMPION: Morozumi Wins 2023 ARGO GRAPHICS Cup

SKIP
Yusuke
Morozumi

Third
Yuta
Matsumura

Second
Ryotaro
Shukuya

Lead
Kosuke
Morozumi

Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) won 6-5 over Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) in the Final of the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup, held August 17 - 20, 2023 at the Kitami Curling Club in Kitami, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Morozumi won 8-5 over Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals

Morozumi finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morozumi defeated Ryo Aoki (Sapporo, JPN) 8-2, then won 7-2 against Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN). Morozumi went on to lose 7-1 against Hirata. Morozumi responded with a 9-5 win over Japan's Kantaro Kawano in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup Championship title, Morozumi earned 15.000 world rankings points along with the $1,000,000CDN first prize cheque. Morozumi move up 7 spots after posting a net gain of 13.875 points improving upon their best 2 results so far this season, ranking 21st overall with 137.875 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Morozumi ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 33.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	55	35	0	0.611	19-7	11-8	6-5	3-1	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	622	532	433	8.55	6.96	1.59	4.86	4.24	1.76	1.64	0.90

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	307	385	107	28	13-3	29-6	76-13	1.25	0.35	0.42	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	315	147	326	28	2-3	11-27	24-67	0.47	1.03	0.50	0.30

2025: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Asei Nakahara, Hiroki Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa
Kitami, JPN
2024: Momoha Tabata
Momoha Tabata, Miku Nihira, Sae Yamamoto, Mikoto Nakajima, Ayami Ito
Sapporo, JPN
2023: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Yuta Matsumura, Ryotaro Shukuya, Kosuke Morozumi, Masaki Iwai
Karuizawa, JPN