Wakabayashi1-2 at Morioka City Mens Memorial Cup

Okayama, Japan

Fourth
Hiroki
Yoshioka

SKIP
Ryo
Wakabayashi

Second
Kosuke
Yuki

Lead
Shinji
Okamoto

Games:	3
Record:	1W - 2L
PF/G:	4.29
PA/G:	8.57
Hammer Efficiency:	0.20
Steal Defense:	0.31
Force Efficiency:	0.57
Steal Efficiency:	0.00

Ryo Wakabayashi (Okayama, JPN) finished 1-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Wakabayashi defeated Hiroki Hasegawa (Sapporo, JPN) 6-2, then went on to lose 9-1 against Naomasa Takeda (Nayoro, JPN). Wakabayashi lost 7-2 to Kotaro Noguchi (Sendai-shi, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Wakabayashi earned 0.338 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Wakabayashi gained 1.156 points improving upon their best 0 events, though dropped 315 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 315thplace overall with 1.156 total points. Wakabayashi ranks 86th 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	2	5	0	0.286	0-0	0-1	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	51	31	46	6.08	9.02	-2.94	3.53	5.49	1.72	1.64	0.98

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	28	26	17	3	1-0	1-1	5-4	0.93	0.61	0.28	0.39

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	23	5	29	2	0-1	0-2	1-5	0.22	1.26	0.53	0.17

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Sapporo, JPN
2024: Takumi Hasegawa
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Tokyo, JPN
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Tokyo, JPN
2019: Ryo Ogihara
Ryo Ogihara, Akira Ohtsuka, Manabu Aoki, Naoki Kaneko
Karuizawa, JPN

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