Nakamura1-4 at 2016 Minebea Cup

Okayama, Japan

SKIP
Hideaki
Nakamura

Third
Hitoshi
Teratani

Second
Toshiyuki
Kubota

Lead
Shinichiro
Sakurai

Games:	5
Record:	1W - 4L
PF/G:	6.76
PA/G:	11.18
Hammer Efficiency:	0.14
Steal Defense:	0.57
Force Efficiency:	0.33
Steal Efficiency:	0.31

Hideaki Nakamura (Okayama, JPN) finished 1-4 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Nakamura lost 10-2 to Hiromitsu Kuriyama (Nagano, JPN), droppimg another game, 9-4 to Yasuhiro Morita (Kyoto, JPN). Nakamura lost 8-1 to Arihito Kasahara (Tokyo, JPN). Nakamura lost 8-4 to Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN) where Nakamura responded with a 12-3 win over Taiki Natsuizaka (Aomori City, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Nakamura earned 0.180 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 24 spots the World Ranking Standings into 456th place overall with 0.485 total points. Nakamura ranks 227th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.180 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

2025: Kotaro Noguchi
Kotaro Noguchi, Yuto Kamada, Hiroshi Kato, Hiromasa Yonehara
, JPN
2023: Kaito Fujii
Kaito Fujii, Miharu Kubota, Ruki Yokoyama, Ryouga Sakurai
Miyota, JPN
2017: Satoru Tsukamoto
Satoru Tsukamoto, Suguru Tsukamoto, Yuma Endo, Nobuhito Kasahara, Tatsunori Naganuma
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Ryo Ogihara
Ryo Ogihara, Kohei Okamura, Tatsuya Hayashi, Daiki Yamazaki
Karuizawa, JPN
2015: Arihito Kasahara
Arihito Kasahara, Akira Ohtsuka, Yuta Higuchi, Akihiro Yokokura
, JPN

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