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 34th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
12.100 points earned so far this season.
