Hayashi1-3 at Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

Hokkaido, Japan

Fourth
Takamori
Chikahiro

Third
Genji
Ohara

SKIP
Rio
Hayashi

Lead
Shotaro
Maekawa

Games:	4
Record:	1W - 3L
PF/G:	5.33
PA/G:	7.67
Hammer Efficiency:	0.33
Steal Defense:	0.08
Force Efficiency:	0.42
Steal Efficiency:	0.06

Rio Hayashi (Hokkaido, JPN) finished 1-3 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Hayashi lost 6-4 to Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN), then responded with a 6-5 win over Hakjun Kim (Chuncheon, KOR). Hayashi went on to lose 7-2 against Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN). Hayashi lost 5-4 to Kotaro Noguchi (Sendai-shi, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

Hayashi earned 0.863 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 3 of the event schedule, Hayashi did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 192nd to 193rd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 5.700 total points. Hayashi ranks 15th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 4.950 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: Kohsuke Hirata
Kohsuke Hirata, Shingo Usui, Ryota Meguro, Yoshiya Miura
Kitami, JPN
2022: ByeongJin Jeong
ByeongJin Jeong, JeongJae Lee, MinWoo Kim, Taehwan Kim
Seoul, KOR
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Masaki Iwai
Go Aoki, Masaki Iwai, Ryotaro Shukuya, Koki Ogiwara, Kei Kamada
Sapporo, JPN
2017: Soo-Hyuk Kim
Soo-Hyuk Kim, Taehwan Kim, Jongduk Park, Yoonho Nam
Gangwon, KOR
2016: Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay, Tristan Steinke, Chris Kennedy, Caleb Boorse
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