Morozumi Finishes Fourth at 2024 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Yusuke
Morozumi

Third
Yuta
Matsumura

Second
Ryotaro
Shukuya

Lead
Masaki
Iwai

Games:	6
Record:	4W - 2L
PF/G:	7.45
PA/G:	4.89
Hammer Efficiency:	0.33
Steal Defense:	0.06
Force Efficiency:	0.69
Steal Efficiency:	0.34

Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) lost 5-4 to Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2024 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan. of the 2024 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan; Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) lost 5-4 to Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2024 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan. Morozumi lost 4-3 to Takumi Maeda (Tokoro, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2024 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup in Hokkaido, Japan;

Morozumi finished 4-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morozumi defeated Kaito Fujii (Miyota, JPN) 5-3, then won 5-2 against Taia Nakahara (Kitami, JPN) and 9-5 against Toshiya Iida (Wakkanai, JPN). Morozumi won 9-4 against Hirata in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup, Morozumi take home 10.000 world rankings points. For week 2 of the event schedule, Morozumi did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Morozumi ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2025: Takumi Maeda
Takumi Maeda, Asei Nakahara, Hiroki Maeda, Uryu Kamikawa
Kitami, JPN
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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