Bronze for Hirata at 2024 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

Kitami, Japan

SKIP
Kohsuke
Hirata

Third
Shingo
Usui

Second
Ryota
Meguro

Lead
Yoshiya
Miura

Games:	6
Record:	4W - 2L
PF/G:	6.17
PA/G:	4.47
Hammer Efficiency:	0.18
Steal Defense:	0.26
Force Efficiency:	0.82
Steal Efficiency:	0.39

Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) won 5-4 over Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2024 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan. of the 2024 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan; Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) won 5-4 over Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2024 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan. Hirata lost 4-3 to Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.

Hirata finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hirata defeated Taia Nakahara (Kitami, JPN) 8-1, then won 3-2 against Kaito Fujii (Miyota, JPN). Hirata went on to lose 9-4 against Morozumi. Hirata responded with a 6-1 win over Toshiya Iida (Wakkanai, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup, Hirata earn 11.250 world rankings points. For week 2 of the event schedule, Hirata did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Hirata ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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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