CHAMPION: Morozumi Wins 2019 ADVICS Cup

SKIP
Yusuke
Morozumi

Third
Masaki
Iwai

Second
Ryotaro
Shukuya

Lead
Kosuke
Morozumi

Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) won 7-6 over Jongduk Park (Gangwon, KOR) in the Final of the ADVICS Cup, held August 9 - 12, 2019 in Kitami, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Morozumi won 8-4 over De Jia Zou (Beijing, CHN) in the semifinals

Morozumi finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morozumi defeated Jason Gunnlaugson (Winnipeg, MB) 7-2, then went on to lose 6-5 against Park. Morozumi responded with a 8-0 win over Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN). Morozumi won 7-2 against Naomasa Takeda (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the ADVICS Cup Championship title, Morozumi earned 28.885 world rankings points along with the $12,497CDN first prize cheque, moving up 29 spots the World Ranking Standings into 55th place overall with 69.546 total points. Morozumi ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 30.713 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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