CHAMPION: Sato Wins 2022 ADVICS Cup

Fourth
Go
Aoki

SKIP
Hayato
Sato

Second
Koki
Ogiwara

Lead
Kazushi
Niino

Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) won 6-3 over Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in the Final of the ADVICS Cup, held September 8 - 11, 2022 in Tokoro, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Sato won 5-2 over Hiroyuki Honda (Kitami, JPN) in the semifinals

Sato finished 4-0 in the 9-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sato defeated Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) 3-2, then won 6-2 against Japan's Toa Nakahara and 4-2 against Naomasa Takeda (Hokkaido, JPN). Sato won 7-4 against Japan's Kotaro Noguchi in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the ADVICS Cup Championship title, Sato earned 11.250 world rankings points along with the $9,101CDN first prize cheque. Sato move up 41 spots after posting a net gain of 10.5 points improving upon their best 2 results so far this season, ranking 98th overall with 24.244 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Sato ranks 28th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 17.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2023	35	23	0	0.603	9-3	7-3	1-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2023	429	318	268	7.41	6.25	1.17	4.06	4.06	1.83	1.54	1.89

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2023	207	237	61	38	11-0	15-3	43-11	1.14	0.29	0.41	0.21

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2023	222	81	207	43	3-2	5-13	13-44	0.36	0.93	0.55	0.22

2023: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Haruto Ouchi, Shinya Abe, Sota Tsuruga, Makoto Tsuruga, Makoto Tsuruga
Sapporo, JPN
2022: Hayato Sato
Go Aoki, Hayato Sato, Koki Ogiwara, Kazushi Niino, Ayato Sasaki, Takayuki Doi
Sapporo, JPN
2019: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Masaki Iwai, Ryotaro Shukuya, Kosuke Morozumi
Nagano, JPN

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