Takeda Finishes Fourth at Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup

Nayoro, Japan

SKIP
Naomasa
Takeda

Third
Akira
Otsuka

Second
Takumi
Ozawa

Lead
Tomonori
Matsuzawa

Games:	5
Record:	2W - 3L
PF/G:	8.00
PA/G:	6.57
Hammer Efficiency:	0.33
Steal Defense:	0.18
Force Efficiency:	0.45
Steal Efficiency:	0.28

Naomasa Takeda (Nayoro, JPN) lost 7-3 to Chikara Segawa (Morioka, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup in Morioka, Japan. of the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup in Morioka, Japan; Naomasa Takeda (Nayoro, JPN) lost 7-3 to Chikara Segawa (Morioka, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup in Morioka, Japan. Takeda lost 6-4 to Rio Hayashi (Hokkaido, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup in Morioka, Japan;

Takeda finished 2-1 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Takeda defeated Kotaro Noguchi (Sendai-shi, JPN) 9-5, then won 9-1 against Ryo Wakabayashi (Okayama, JPN). Takeda went on to lose 4-3 against Hiroki Hasegawa (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup, Takeda take home 2.700 world rankings points. Takeda gained 0.727 points improving upon their best 0 events, though dropped 355 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 355thplace overall with 0.727 total points. Takeda ranks 72nd 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	2	0	0.600	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	37	27	33	7.30	8.92	-1.62	4.59	5.41	1.59	1.65	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	21	22	10	0	0-0	2-0	6-1	1.05	0.48	0.38	0.43

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	16	5	23	0	0-0	0-4	0-4	0.31	1.44	0.27	0.31

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