Kuriyama

Fourth
Shunto
Tsuchiya

Third
Katsuhito
Sumi

Second
Shota
Iino

SKIP
Hiromitsu
Kuriyama

Hiromitsu Kuriyama (Tokyo, JPN) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Kuriyama finished 2-3 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kuriyama defeated Michio Hatano (Chiba, JPN) 7-4, then won 10-3 against Tomoji Arai (Tokyo, JPN). Kuriyama went on to lose 11-3 against Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Nagano, JPN). Kuriyama lost 5-4 to Takuya Ishikawa (Tokyo, JPN). Kuriyama lost 8-1 to Hiroki Yoshioka (Okayama, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Kuriyama earned 1.137 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. Kuriyama move up 83 spots after posting a net gain of 0.914 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 412th overall with 1.581 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Kuriyama ranks 398th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.137 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

Brendan Bottcher (photo: Stan Fong) is moving on from now former teammates Marc Kennedy, Brett Gallant and Ben Hebert, announced Tuesday.

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