Maeda Finishes Fourth at 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

Kitami, Japan

SKIP
Takumi
Maeda

Third
Uryu
Kamikawa

Second
Hiroki
Maeda

Lead
Asei
Nakahara

Games:	5
Record:	1W - 4L
PF/G:	7.57
PA/G:	8.11
Hammer Efficiency:	0.33
Steal Defense:	0.28
Force Efficiency:	0.30
Steal Efficiency:	0.42

Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) lost 8-4 to Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan. of the 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan; Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) lost 8-4 to Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan. Maeda lost 5-4 to Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan;

Maeda finished 1-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Maeda defeated Yuun Ishimura (Aomori, JPN) 11-0, then went on to lose 6-5 against Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN). Maeda lost 11-4 to Yanagisawa in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup, Maeda take home 7.500 world rankings points, moving up 20 spots the World Ranking Standings into 99th place overall with 32.250 total points. Maeda ranks 8th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 9.750 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

2025: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Asei Nakahara, Hiroki Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa
Kitami, JPN
2024: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Shinya Abe, Haruto Ouchi, Hayato Sato, Sota Tsuruga
Sapporo, JPN
2023: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Yuta Matsumura, Ryotaro Shukuya, Kosuke Morozumi, Masaki Iwai
Karuizawa, JPN
2022: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa, Hiroki Maeda, Asei Nakahara , Ayumi Ogasawara
Sapporo, JPN

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