Sota Sato (Kitami, JPN) lost 5-3 to Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan. of the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan; Sota Sato (Kitami, JPN) lost 5-3 to Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN) in the Bronze Medal game at the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup in Kitami, Japan, Japan. Sato lost
4-2 to
Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi (Karuizawa, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game.
Sato finished 3-1 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Sato lost
6-3 to
Takumi Maeda (Kitami, JPN), then responded with a
3-2 win over
Minato Hayamizu (Karuizawa, JPN). Sato won
4-2 against
Kenji Takamatsu (Sapporo, JPN), then won
5-3 against
Koki Ogiwara (Sapporo, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.
With their fourth place finish at the ARGO GRAPHICS Cup, Sato take home
8.000 world rankings points along with 467CDN. For week 6 of the event schedule, Sato did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 132nd place on the
World Ranking Standings with
14.205 total points. Sato ranks 30th overall on the
Year-to-Date rankings with
12.650 points earned so far this season.
