Bronze for Watanabe at 2020 Keijinkai Rizing Cup

Tokyo, Japan

SKIP
Tomoya
Watanabe

Third
Akira
Otsuka

Second
Naoki
Kaneko

Lead
Hiromasa
Yamamoto

Games:	8
Record:	5W - 3L
PF/G:	7.02
PA/G:	6.84
Hammer Efficiency:	0.33
Steal Defense:	0.35
Force Efficiency:	0.53
Steal Efficiency:	0.38

Tomoya Watanabe (Tokyo, JPN) won 5-3 over Takuya Ishikawa (Tokyo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2020 Keijinkai Rizing Cup in Miyota, Japan. of the 2020 Keijinkai Rizing Cup in Miyota, Japan; Tomoya Watanabe (Tokyo, JPN) won 5-3 over Takuya Ishikawa (Tokyo, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2020 Keijinkai Rizing Cup in Miyota, Japan. Watanabe lost 6-3 to Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Nagano, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2020 Keijinkai Rizing Cup in Miyota, Japan;

Watanabe finished 3-2 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Watanabe defeated Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN) 6-1, then went on to lose 5-3 against Shun Tanaka (Tokyo, JPN). Watanabe lost 7-1 to Ken Kanai (Yamanashi, JPN) where Watanabe responded with a 5-4 win over Ryo Wakabayashi (Osaka, JPN). Watanabe won 9-8 against Ryo Ogihara (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

With their third place finish at the Keijinkai Rizing Cup, Watanabe earn 6.445 world rankings points and 1424CDN. Watanabe move up 123 spots after posting a net gain of 5.885 points improving upon their best 8 results so far this season, ranking 236th overall with 8.765 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Watanabe ranks 232nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 7.646 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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