CHAMPION: Abe Wins ADVICS Cup

Sapporo, Japan

Fourth
Tetsuro
Shimizu

SKIP
Shinya
Abe

Second
Haruto
Ouchi

Lead
Hayato
Sato

Games:	5
Record:	5W - 0L
PF/G:	10.61
PA/G:	3.94
Hammer Efficiency:	0.54
Steal Defense:	0.06
Force Efficiency:	0.63
Steal Efficiency:	0.47

Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) won 8-3 over Riku Yanagisawa (Karuizawa, JPN) in the Final of the ADVICS Cup, held August 22 - 25 at the Tokoro Curling Club in Kitami, Japan. Advancing directly to the semifinals, Abe won 6-2 over Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) to advance to the championship game. of the ADVICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan; of the ADVICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan;

Abe finished 3-0 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Abe defeated Takumi Maeda (Tokoro, JPN) 7-4, then won 7-0 against Japan's Kotaro Noguchi and 7-4 against Japan's Ryo Aoki in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the ADVICS Cup Championship title, Abe earned 18.750 world rankings points along with the $9,336CDN first prize cheque. For week 4 of the event schedule, Abe did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Abe 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

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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