Japan's Kotaro Tani3-2 at 2018 Obihiro ICE Gold Cup

Japan

SKIP
Kotaro
Tani

Third
Taishi
Ikezaki

Second
Takuma
Yamauchi

Lead
Tatsuya
Sumino

Games:	5
Record:	3W - 2L
PF/G:	6.47
PA/G:	6.76
Hammer Efficiency:	0.36
Steal Defense:	0.26
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.27

Japan's Kotaro Tani finished 3-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Japan's Kotaro Tani lost 4-2 to Azusa Arakawa (Hokkaido, JPN), droppimg another game, 8-4 to Motoyuki Fujisaki (Obihiro, JPN) where Japan's Kotaro Tani responded with a 5-4 win over Tomoya Watanabe (Tokyo, JPN). Japan's Kotaro Tani won 7-4 against Japan's Tsubasa Nakagawa, then won 4-3 against Suguru Tsukamoto (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Japan's Kotaro Tani earned 3.939 world rankings points for their Top 4 finish in the Obihiro ICE Gold Cup, moving up 201 spots the World Ranking Standings into 287th place overall with 4.117 total points. Japan's Kotaro Tani ranks 60th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 3.939 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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2023: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Asei Nakahara, Hiroki Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa , Ayumi Ogasawara
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2018: Shingo Usui
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Daiki Shikano, Yoshiya Miura , Hirofumi Kobayashi
Kitami, JPN

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