CHAMPION: Abe Wins 2023 ADVICS Cup

Sapporo, Japan

Fourth
Tetsuro
Shimizu

Third
Haruto
Ouchi

SKIP
Shinya
Abe

Lead
Sota
Tsuruga

Games:	6
Record:	5W - 1L
PF/G:	8.14
PA/G:	4.42
Hammer Efficiency:	0.39
Steal Defense:	0.18
Force Efficiency:	0.70
Steal Efficiency:	0.33

Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) won 10-2 over Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) in the Final of the ADVICS Cup, held August 24 - 27, 2023 at the Tokoro Curling Club in Kitami, Japan. To advance to the championship game, Abe won 5-3 over Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the semifinals of the 2023 ADVICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan; and won 5-3 over Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) in the quarterfinals. of the 2023 ADVICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan;

Abe finished 2-1 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Abe defeated Shunta Kobayashi (Sapporo, JPN) 8-4, then went on to lose 4-3 against Fukuhiro Ohno (Sapporo, JPN). Abe responded with a 4-3 win over Sato in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the ADVICS Cup Championship title, Abe earned 15.000 world rankings points along with the $9,292CDN first prize cheque. Abe move up 6 spots after posting a net gain of 12.75 points improving upon their best 2 results so far this season, ranking 45th overall with 80.375 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Abe ranks 14th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 24.000 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

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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