Koana2-2 at ADVICS Cup

Yamanashi, Japan

SKIP
Tori
Koana

Third
Yuna
Kotani

Second
Mao
Ishigaki

Lead
Arisa
Kotani

Games:	4
Record:	2W - 2L
PF/G:	10.00
PA/G:	8.46
Hammer Efficiency:	0.58
Steal Defense:	0.23
Force Efficiency:	0.44
Steal Efficiency:	0.31

Tori Koana (Yamanashi, JPN) finished 2-2 in the 10 team ADVICS Cup qualifying round, held August 9 - 12 in , . In their opening game, Koana defeated Mizuki Hara (Sapporo, JPN) 9-3, then went on to lose 9-3 against Jie Mei (Beijing, CHN). Koana lost 8-6 to Satsuki Fujisawa (Kitami, JPN) where Koana responded with a 8-2 win over Misaki Tanaka (Aomori, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Koana earned 4.022 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 1 spots the World Ranking Standings into 45th place overall with 83.623 total points. Koana ranks 7th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 6.243 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
	2	2	0	0.500	2-1	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
	26	26	22	10.00	8.46	1.54	5.00	4.62	2.00	1.83	0.38

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
	13	20	6	1	1-0	2-1	4-1	1.54	0.46	0.58	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
	13	6	16	0	0-0	1-2	0-3	0.46	1.23	0.44	0.31

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