CHAMPION: Maeda Wins 2022 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

Sapporo, Japan

SKIP
Takumi
Maeda

Third
Uryu
Kamikawa

Second
Hiroki
Maeda

Lead
Asei
Nakahara

Games:	5
Record:	5W - 0L
PF/G:	9.47
PA/G:	6.58
Hammer Efficiency:	0.61
Steal Defense:	0.19
Force Efficiency:	0.54
Steal Efficiency:	0.24

Takumi Maeda (Sapporo, JPN) won 6-4 over Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Final of the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup, held August 18 - 21, 2022 in Hokkaido, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Maeda won 7-6 over Japan's Juon Ishimura in the semifinals of the 2022 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan;

Maeda finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Maeda defeated Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) 7-6, then won 7-4 against Japan's Kotaro Noguchi and 9-5 against Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup Championship title, Maeda earned 15.000 world rankings points along with the $1,000,000CDN first prize cheque. For week 3 of the event schedule, Maeda did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Maeda ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 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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