Bronze for Hirata at ARGO GRAPHICS Cup

SKIP
Kohsuke
Hirata

Third
Shingo
Usui

Second
Koei
Sato

Lead
Ryota
Meguro

Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) won 5-3 over Sota Sato (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan. of the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan; Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) won 5-3 over Sota Sato (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan. Hirata lost 6-4 to Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan;

Hirata finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hirata defeated Yuan Wang (Shanghai, CHN) 10-2, then went on to lose 8-2 against Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN). Hirata responded with a 8-6 win over Ryo Wakabayashi (Okayama, JPN). Hirata won 8-5 against Kotaro Noguchi (Sendai-shi, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup, Hirata earn 9.000 world rankings points and 1400CDN. For week 6 of the event schedule, Hirata did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 42nd to 43rd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 71.725 total points. Hirata ranks 33rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 12.100 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	14	8	0	0.636	1-0	0-0	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	162	137	101	8.46	6.23	2.22	4.51	4.51	1.88	1.38	0.99

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	82	108	23	5	4-0	10-0	18-2	1.32	0.28	0.42	0.26

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	80	29	78	11	1-1	1-1	7-21	0.36	0.98	0.56	0.21

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