Maeda Reaches ADVICS Cup Quarters

SKIP
Takumi
Maeda

Third
Uryu
Kamikawa

Second
Hiroki
Maeda

Lead
Asei
Nakahara

Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) qualified for the ADVICS Cup playoffs, dropping their quarterfinals match 7-1 against Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN). of the ADVICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan;

Maeda finished 4-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Maeda defeated Kotaro Noguchi (Sendai-shi, JPN) 8-4, then went on to lose 8-2 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Maeda responded with a 10-3 win over Naomasa Takeda (Sapporo, JPN). Maeda won 5-2 against Hiroyuki Honda (Kitami, JPN), then won 7-2 against Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Maeda earned 6.000 world rankings points for their Top 5 finish in the ADVICS Cup. Maeda move up 5 spots after posting a net gain of 3.75 points improving upon their best 2 results so far this season, ranking 91st overall with 36.000 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Maeda ranks 22nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 13.500 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

2023: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Haruto Ouchi, Shinya Abe, Sota Tsuruga, Makoto Tsuruga, Makoto Tsuruga
Sapporo, JPN
2022: Hayato Sato
Go Aoki, Hayato Sato, Koki Ogiwara, Kazushi Niino, Ayato Sasaki, Takayuki Doi
Sapporo, JPN
2019: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Masaki Iwai, Ryotaro Shukuya, Kosuke Morozumi
Nagano, JPN

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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