Usui3-2 at 2019 Obihiro ICE Gold Cup

Kitami, Japan

Fourth
Kohsuke
Hirata

SKIP
Shingo
Usui

Second
Yoshiya
Miura

Lead
Sota
Jutori

Games:	8
Record:	6W - 2L
PF/G:	7.86
PA/G:	5.89
Hammer Efficiency:	0.43
Steal Defense:	0.20
Force Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Efficiency:	0.32

Shingo Usui (Kitami, JPN) finished 3-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Usui lost 7-5 to Kenji Takamatsu (Sapporo, JPN), then responded with a 4-3 win over Yoshiaki Sakaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN). Usui went on to lose 7-4 against Suguru Tsukamoto (Kanagawa, JPN). Usui responded with a 7-2 win over Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN). Usui won 8-3 against Keisaku Takada (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Obihiro ICE Gold Cup Championship title, Usui earned 12.014 world rankings points along with the $6,016CDN first prize cheque, moving up 16 spots the World Ranking Standings into 87th place overall with 45.465 total points. Usui ranks 56th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 13.374 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

2024: Toshiya Iida
Toshiya Iida, Yuta Fuuse, Koto Inaba, Kento Nishida
Wakkanai, JPN
2023: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Asei Nakahara, Hiroki Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa , Ayumi Ogasawara
Sapporo, JPN
2019: Shingo Usui
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Yoshiya Miura, Sota Jutori
Kitami, JPN
2018: Shingo Usui
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Daiki Shikano, Yoshiya Miura , Hirofumi Kobayashi
Kitami, JPN

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