Sato Finishes Fourth at ARGO GRAPHICS Cup

Kitami, Japan

SKIP
Sota
Sato

Third
Takumi
Nomura

Second
Toshihiro
Nishizawa

Lead
Tomonori
Matsuzawa

Games:	6
Record:	3W - 3L
PF/G:	4.35
PA/G:	4.78
Hammer Efficiency:	0.20
Steal Defense:	0.12
Force Efficiency:	0.40
Steal Efficiency:	0.19

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 125th 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.

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

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