Iwai3-0 at 2018 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

Fourth
Go
Aoki

SKIP
Masaki
Iwai

Second
Ryotaro
Shukuya

Lead
Koki
Ogiwara

Masaki Iwai (Sapporo, JPN) finished 3-0 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Iwai defeated Souta Tsuruga (Sapporo, JPN) 6-2, then won 10-1 against Shingo Usui (Kitami, JPN) and 8-7 against Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic Championship title, Iwai earned 18.985 world rankings points along with the $11,660CDN first prize cheque. Iwai gained 33.52 points improving upon their best 2 events, though dropped 102 spots on the World Ranking Standings into 102ndplace overall with 33.520 total points. Iwai ranks 1st overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 18.985 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: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Shinya Abe, Hayato Sato, Haruto Ouchi
Sapporo, JPN
2023: Kohsuke Hirata
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Ryota Meguro, Yoshiya Miura
Kitami, JPN
2022: ByeongJin Jeong
ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, MinWoo Kim, Taehwan Kim
Seoul, KOR
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Masaki Iwai
Go Aoki, Masaki Iwai, Ryotaro Shukuya, Koki Ogiwara, Kei Kamada
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jongduk Park, Yoonho Nam
Gangwon, KOR
2016: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Tristan Steinke, Chris Kennedy, Caleb Boorse
Edmonton, AB