Takada2-3 at 2019 Obihiro ICE Gold Cup

Kitami, Japan

SKIP
Keisaku
Takada

Third
Ryo
Itsubo

Second
Kouhei
Sawai

Lead
Takanobu
Yamaura

Games:	5
Record:	2W - 3L
PF/G:	5.28
PA/G:	10.83
Hammer Efficiency:	0.21
Steal Defense:	0.48
Force Efficiency:	0.64
Steal Efficiency:	0.20

Keisaku Takada (Kitami, JPN) finished 2-3 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Takada lost 13-2 to Yoshiaki Sakaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN), then responded with a 6-5 win over Suguru Tsukamoto (Kanagawa, JPN). Takada won 6-4 against Kenji Takamatsu (Sapporo, JPN). Takada went on to lose 9-2 against Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN). Takada lost 8-3 to Shingo Usui (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Takada earned 1.201 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 20 spots the World Ranking Standings into 323rd place overall with 4.127 total points. Takada ranks 123rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.201 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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