CHAMPION: Maeda Wins Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

Kitami, Japan

SKIP
Takumi
Maeda

Third
Asei
Nakahara

Second
Hiroki
Maeda

Lead
Uryu
Kamikawa

Games:	6
Record:	5W - 1L
PF/G:	8.41
PA/G:	4.32
Hammer Efficiency:	0.47
Steal Defense:	0.23
Force Efficiency:	0.60
Steal Efficiency:	0.36

Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) won 5-1 over Japan's Kohsuke Hirata in the Final of the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup, held July 31 - August 3 in Hokkaido, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Maeda won 4-3 over Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals of the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan;

Maeda finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Maeda defeated Japan's Koki Ogiwara 7-5, then won 9-3 against Japan's Yuta Fuse and 8-1 against P.N. Raju (Hyderabad, IN). Maeda went on to lose 6-4 against Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup Championship title, Maeda earned 16.500 world rankings points along with the $9,406CDN first prize cheque, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 27th place overall with 127.250 total points. Maeda ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 16.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	40	20	0	0.667	0-0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2026	423	352	275	8.32	6.50	1.82	4.68	4.07	1.78	1.60	1.25

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	202	257	57	25	10-3	19-1	49-5	1.27	0.28	0.44	0.19

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	221	95	218	28	1-3	5-16	21-43	0.43	0.99	0.53	0.27

2025: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Asei Nakahara, Hiroki Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa
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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
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2022: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa, Hiroki Maeda, Asei Nakahara , Ayumi Ogasawara
Sapporo, JPN

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