Japan's Koki Ogiwara2-2 at Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

Japan

SKIP
Koki
Ogiwara

Third
Shunta
Kobayashi

Second
Daiki
Kudo

Lead
Yuto
Abe

Games:	4
Record:	2W - 2L
PF/G:	6.25
PA/G:	6.25
Hammer Efficiency:	0.50
Steal Defense:	0.14
Force Efficiency:	0.40
Steal Efficiency:	0.17

Japan's Koki Ogiwara finished 2-2 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Japan's Koki Ogiwara lost 7-5 to Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN), then responded with a 7-5 win over Japan's Yuta Fuse. Japan's Koki Ogiwara won 5-4 against Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN). Japan's Koki Ogiwara went on to lose 4-3 against P.N. Raju (Hyderabad, IN) in their final qualifying round match.

Japan's Koki Ogiwara earned 1.650 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, moving up 30 spots the World Ranking Standings into 198th place overall with 4.994 total points. Japan's Koki Ogiwara ranks 20th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 1.650 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	10	9	0	0.526	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	145	107	89	7.38	6.14	1.24	4.41	4.28	1.67	1.44	1.31

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	74	81	18	11	4-0	3-0	15-3	1.09	0.24	0.35	0.20

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	71	26	71	8	1-0	1-2	4-20	0.37	1.00	0.53	0.23

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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