Abe1-2 at 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

Sapporo, Japan

Fourth
Tetsuro
Shimizu

Third
Haruto
Ouchi

SKIP
Shinya
Abe

Lead
Sota
Tsuruga

Games:	3
Record:	1W - 2L
PF/G:	6.52
PA/G:	9.13
Hammer Efficiency:	0.45
Steal Defense:	0.36
Force Efficiency:	0.56
Steal Efficiency:	0.08

Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) finished 1-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Abe lost 9-3 to Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN), then responded with a 6-5 win over Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN). Abe went on to lose 7-6 against Yuun Ishimura (Aomori, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Abe earned 0.938 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 2 spots the World Ranking Standings into 60th place overall with 59.563 total points. Abe ranks 15th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 3.188 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	28	21	0	0.571	8-2	5-5	3-5	0-0	0-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	360	312	235	8.67	6.53	2.14	4.92	3.97	1.76	1.64	1.11

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	172	231	35	23	4-1	23-1	46-6	1.34	0.20	0.49	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	188	81	200	17	3-3	5-18	10-35	0.43	1.06	0.53	0.28

2024: Shinya Abe
Tetsuro Shimizu, Shinya Abe, Haruto Ouchi, Hayato Sato, Sota Tsuruga
Sapporo, JPN
2023: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Yuta Matsumura, Ryotaro Shukuya, Kosuke Morozumi, Masaki Iwai
Karuizawa, JPN
2022: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa, Hiroki Maeda, Asei Nakahara , Ayumi Ogasawara
Sapporo, JPN

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