CHAMPION: Maeda Wins 2025 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

SKIP
Takumi
Maeda

Third
Asei
Nakahara

Second
Hiroki
Maeda

Lead
Uryu
Kamikawa

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, 2025 in Hokkaido, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Maeda won 4-3 over Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals of the 2025 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 2 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	52	26	0	0.667	3-1	1-2	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	552	461	365	8.35	6.61	1.74	4.71	4.15	1.77	1.59	1.14

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	269	346	77	30	12-3	22-2	76-9	1.29	0.29	0.46	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	283	115	288	33	1-5	7-19	23-56	0.41	1.02	0.55	0.26

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