Japan's Takuma Makanae1-3 at Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

Japan

SKIP
Takuma
Makanae

Third
Kantaro
Kono

Second
Masaki
Kudou

Lead
Daiki
Nipei

Games:	4
Record:	1W - 3L
PF/G:	6.07
PA/G:	8.57
Hammer Efficiency:	0.38
Steal Defense:	0.33
Force Efficiency:	0.44
Steal Efficiency:	0.23

Japan's Takuma Makanae finished 1-3 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Japan's Takuma Makanae lost 8-3 to Japan's Kaito Fujii, then responded with a 7-3 win over Hakjun Kim (Chuncheon, KOR). Japan's Takuma Makanae went on to lose 7-4 against Japan's Kohsuke Hirata. Japan's Takuma Makanae lost 6-3 to Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Japan's Takuma Makanae earned 0.825 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 82 spots the World Ranking Standings into 272nd place overall with 0.825 total points. Japan's Takuma Makanae ranks 24th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.825 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	1	3	0	0.250	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2026	28	17	24	6.07	8.57	-2.50	3.93	5.00	1.55	1.71	1.07

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	15	13	7	2	0-0	0-1	5-0	0.87	0.47	0.38	0.33

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	13	4	17	1	0-1	0-1	1-3	0.31	1.31	0.44	0.23

2024: Shinya Abe
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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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