Hayashi Runner-Up at Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup

Hokkaido, Japan

Fourth
Takamori
Chikahiro

Third
Genji
Ohara

SKIP
Rio
Hayashi

Lead
Shotaro
Maekawa

Games:	5
Record:	2W - 2L (1T)
PF/G:	7.57
PA/G:	7.57
Hammer Efficiency:	0.38
Steal Defense:	0.31
Force Efficiency:	0.62
Steal Efficiency:	0.33

Rio Hayashi (Hokkaido, JPN) lost 8-5 to Hiroki Hasegawa (Sapporo, JPN) in the Final of the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup, held June 7 - 8 in Morioka, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Hayashi won 6-4 over Naomasa Takeda (Nayoro, JPN) in the semifinals of the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup in Morioka, Japan;

Hayashi finished 1-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hayashi defeated Kouki Tonuma (Tokyo, JPN) 7-5, then went on to lose 6-6 against Takumi Tanabe (Tokyo, JPN). Hayashi lost 5-4 to Chikara Segawa (Morioka, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their runner-up finish at the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup, Hayashi take home 4.950 world rankings points along with the $470CDN prize. Hayashi gained 0.75 points improving upon their best 0 events, though dropped 346 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 346thplace overall with 0.750 total points. Hayashi ranks 116th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	3	5	1	0.375	0-0	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	67	44	51	6.57	7.61	-1.04	4.48	4.63	1.47	1.65	0.90

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	28	33	8	0	0-0	1-1	9-0	1.18	0.29	0.36	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	39	11	43	6	0-2	0-2	3-8	0.28	1.10	0.52	0.21

2025: Hiroki Hasegawa
Hiroki Hasegawa, Kishiro Kyo, Kantaro Kawano, Kentaro Hashimoto, Shun Takahashi
Sapporo, JPN
2024: Takumi Hasegawa
Takumi Hasegawa, Kishiro Kyo, Ryohei Maruyama, Kentaro Hashimoto, Takumi Tanabe
Tokyo, JPN
2023: Kouki Tonuma
Kouki Tonuma, Shusaku Takata, Hidetake Ohtani, Ken Suehiro
Tokyo, JPN
2019: Ryo Ogihara
Ryo Ogihara, Akira Ohtsuka, Manabu Aoki, Naoki Kaneko
Karuizawa, JPN

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