Kobayashi3-3 at 2023 ADVICS Cup

SKIP
Shunta
Kobayashi

Third
Yousuke
Abe

Second
Ayato
Sasaki

Lead
Taiki
Kudo

Shunta Kobayashi (Sapporo, JPN) finished 3-3 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kobayashi defeated Ryo Aoki (Sapporo, JPN) 9-5, then went on to lose 8-4 against Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN). Kobayashi lost 8-2 to Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) where Kobayashi responded with a 8-1 win over Naomasa Takeda (Sapporo, JPN). Kobayashi won 4-2 against Taia Nakahara (Kitami, JPN). Kobayashi went on to lose 8-2 against Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Kobayashi earned 2.250 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 281 spots the World Ranking Standings into 342nd place overall with 2.250 total points. Kobayashi ranks 58th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 2.250 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	9	7	0	0.563	3-2	3-2	2-0	1-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	114	90	87	7.89	7.63	0.26	4.56	4.39	1.73	1.74	1.05

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	53	64	23	4	2-0	3-3	16-3	1.21	0.43	0.43	0.26

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	61	26	64	8	1-1	1-6	3-13	0.43	1.05	0.44	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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