Honda2-5 at 2024 Hokkaido Curling Championships

Kitami, Japan

SKIP
Hiroyuki
Honda

Third
Ryu
Yamamura

Second
Ichiei
Koana

Lead
Syunya
Mizuuchi

Games:	7
Record:	2W - 5L
PF/G:	6.81
PA/G:	7.23
Hammer Efficiency:	0.14
Steal Defense:	0.44
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.36

Hiroyuki Honda (Kitami, JPN) finished 2-5 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Honda lost 7-1 to Taia Nakahara (Kitami, JPN), droppimg another game, 7-1 to Shunta Kobayashi (Sapporo, JPN) where Honda responded with a 14-0 win over Keita Takano (Hokkaido, JPN). Honda went on to lose 5-3 against Yuya Takigahira (Hokkaido, JPN). Honda responded with a 9-2 win over Fukuhiro Ohno (Hokkaido, JPN). Honda went on to lose 8-1 against Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN). Honda lost 5-3 to Yutaro Kasai (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Honda earned 0.375 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 239th place overall with 6.000 total points. Honda ranks 264th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.625 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	5	11	0	0.313	2-4	1-4	1-1	0-1	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	108	72	95	6.67	8.80	-2.13	3.80	5.09	1.76	1.73	1.11

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	60	48	38	7	1-1	5-2	7-5	0.80	0.63	0.25	0.43

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	48	24	57	5	0-3	1-4	8-11	0.50	1.19	0.38	0.29

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