CHAMPION: Yamaguchi Wins 2025 ADVICS Cup

Fourth
Riku
Yanagisawa

SKIP
Tsuyoshi
Yamaguchi

Second
Takeru
Yamamoto

Lead
Satoshi
Koizumi

Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) won 8-4 over Shinya Abe (Sapporo, JPN) in the Final of the ADVICS Cup, held August 21 - 24, 2025 at the Tokoro Curling Club in Kitami, Japan. Advancing directly to the semifinals, Yamaguchi won 5-4 over Koki Ogiwara (Sapporo, JPN) to advance to the championship game. of the 2025 ADVICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan;

Yamaguchi finished 4-0 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Yamaguchi defeated Yota Michitani (Sapporo, JPN) 7-2, then won 7-2 against Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN) and 15-1 against Eito Nakagawa (Hokkaido, JPN). Yamaguchi won 5-3 against Junpei Kanda (Tokyo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the ADVICS Cup Championship title, Yamaguchi earned 18.000 world rankings points along with the $9,392CDN first prize cheque, remaining in 23rd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 8.1 after improving upon their best so far this season. Yamaguchi ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 18.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2026	55	24	0	0.696	5-0	0-1	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	606	488	360	8.05	5.94	2.11	4.72	3.75	1.71	1.59	1.53

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2026	303	371	55	54	11-0	21-3	89-7	1.22	0.18	0.49	0.14

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2026	303	117	305	39	2-6	10-17	11-67	0.39	1.01	0.51	0.26

2025: Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi
Riku Yanagisawa, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Takeru Yamamoto, Satoshi Koizumi
Karuizawa, JPN
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