CHAMPION: Maeda Wins Mother Club Fall Curling Classic

Kitami, Japan

SKIP
Takumi
Maeda

Third
Uryu
Kamikawa

Second
Hiroki
Maeda

Lead
Asei
Nakahara

Games:	7
Record:	6W - 1L
PF/G:	10.85
PA/G:	6.17
Hammer Efficiency:	0.59
Steal Defense:	0.27
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.40

Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) won 7-3 over Jordon McDonald (Winnipeg, MB) in the Final of the Mother Club Fall Curling Classic, held September 14 - 17 at the Granite Curling Club in Winnipeg, Canada. To advance to the championship game, Maeda won 8-2 over Ryan Wiebe (Winnipeg, MB) in the semifinals of the Mother Club Fall Curling Classic in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; and won 9-3 over Brett Walter (Winnipeg, MB) in the quarterfinals. of the Mother Club Fall Curling Classic in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada;

Maeda finished 3-1 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Maeda defeated Jace Freeman (Virden, MB) 7-5, then won 8-6 against Ethan Sampson (Chaska, MN). Maeda went on to lose 6-3 against Wiebe. Maeda responded with a 9-4 win over Braden Calvert (Winnipeg, MB) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Mother Club Fall Curling Classic Championship title, Maeda earned 15.000 world rankings points along with the $1,700CDN first prize cheque. Maeda move up 7 spots after posting a net gain of 9 points improving upon their best 2 results so far this season, ranking 85th overall with 45.000 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Maeda ranks 34th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 22.500 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	38	18	0	0.679	14-5	4-5	2-2	1-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	400	359	254	8.98	6.35	2.63	4.88	4.00	1.84	1.59	1.13

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	196	248	75	25	10-1	23-4	44-10	1.27	0.38	0.45	0.27

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	204	111	179	20	1-4	8-12	16-34	0.54	0.88	0.54	0.37

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