Fujii Runner-Up at 2024 Chubu Curling Championships

SKIP
Kaito
Fujii

Third
Miharu
Kubota

Second
Ruki
Yokoyama

Lead
Ryouga
Sakurai

Kaito Fujii (Miyota, JPN) lost 8-2 to Kounosuke Takahashi (Nagano, JPN) in the Final of the Chubu Curling Championships, held December 14 - 17, 2023 in Chubu, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Fujii won 10-4 over Tamotsu Matsumura (Chubu, JPN) in the semifinals of the 2024 Chubu Curling Championships in Chubu, Japan;

Fujii finished 4-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Fujii defeated Daisuke Kobayashi (Chubu, JPN) 11-5, then won 12-1 against Hirotaka Ishikuro (Chubu, JPN) and 9-5 against Kouhei Sawai (Chubu, JPN). Fujii won 7-1 against Kiyotaka Kurbayashi (Chubu, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Chubu Curling Championships, Fujii take home 2.750 world rankings points, moving up 47 spots the World Ranking Standings into 218th place overall with 7.137 total points. Fujii ranks 177th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 6.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	10	2	1	0.833	5-2	5-1	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	95	89	48	9.37	5.05	4.32	5.47	3.58	1.71	1.41	0.95

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	40	45	13	5	2-0	2-0	7-3	1.13	0.33	0.31	0.25

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	55	44	35	4	3-0	1-2	5-7	0.80	0.64	0.63	0.49

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