Takahashi2-2 at 2023 Minebea Mitsumi Cup

SKIP
Kounosuke
Takahashi

Third
Miki
Yamamoto

Second
Syunsuke
Kanakawa

Lead
Tasumi
Tozawa

Kounosuke Takahashi (Nagano, JPN) finished 2-2 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Takahashi lost 6-1 to Hiromitsu Kuriyama (Tokyo, JPN), droppimg another game, 5-4 to Japan's Yusuke Tanaka where Takahashi responded with a 9-1 win over Kenji Iwasaki (Nagano, JPN). Takahashi won 5-0 against Kazuhisa Unoura (Tokyo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Takahashi earned 0.375 world rankings points for their Top 6 finish in the Minebea Mitsumi Cup, moving up 31 spots the World Ranking Standings into 379th place overall with 1.406 total points. Takahashi ranks 233rd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.375 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	11	8	0	0.579	8-3	3-4	1-1	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	144	101	85	7.01	5.90	1.11	4.17	3.61	1.68	1.63	2.22

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	72	65	26	18	2-1	7-0	10-3	0.90	0.36	0.35	0.28

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	72	36	59	14	0-2	2-4	6-11	0.50	0.82	0.47	0.36

2017: Satoru Tsukamoto
Satoru Tsukamoto, Suguru Tsukamoto, Yuma Endo, Nobuhito Kasahara, Tatsunori Naganuma
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Ryo Ogihara
Ryo Ogihara, Kohei Okamura, Tatsuya Hayashi, Daiki Yamazaki
Karuizawa, JPN
2015: Arihito Kasahara
Arihito Kasahara, Akira Ohtsuka, Yuta Higuchi, Akihiro Yokokura
, JPN

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