Morozumi Finishes Fourth at 2023 Karuizawa International

Karuizawa, Japan

SKIP
Yusuke
Morozumi

Third
Yuta
Matsumura

Second
Ryotaro
Shukuya

Lead
Kosuke
Morozumi

Games:	5
Record:	1W - 4L
PF/G:	6.86
PA/G:	8.86
Hammer Efficiency:	0.37
Steal Defense:	0.35
Force Efficiency:	0.42
Steal Efficiency:	0.07

Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) lost 9-3 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan, Japan. of the 2023 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan, Japan; Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) lost 9-3 to Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE) in the Bronze Medal game at the 2023 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan, Japan. Morozumi lost 5-2 to Hayato Sato (Sapporo, JPN) in the semifinals to drop into the third place game. of the 2023 Karuizawa International in Karuizawa, Japan, Japan;

Morozumi finished 1-2 in the 8-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Morozumi lost 6-5 to Soo-Hyuk Kim (Gyeongbuk, KOR), then responded with a 10-4 win over Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN). Morozumi went on to lose 7-4 against Brad Gushue (St. John's, NL) in their final qualifying round match.

With their fourth place finish at the Karuizawa International, Morozumi take home 10.500 world rankings points along with 917CDN. Morozumi move up 1 spots after posting a net gain of 0.48499999999999 points improving upon their best 6 results so far this season, ranking 17th overall with 172.047 total points on the World Ranking Standings. Morozumi ranks 12th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 133.000 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	55	35	0	0.611	19-7	11-8	6-5	3-1	1-1

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	622	532	433	8.55	6.96	1.59	4.86	4.24	1.76	1.64	0.90

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	307	385	107	28	13-3	29-6	76-13	1.25	0.35	0.42	0.23

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	315	147	326	28	2-3	11-27	24-67	0.47	1.03	0.50	0.30

2023: Brad Gushue
Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden, Geoff Walker , Siyu Liu
St. John's, NL
2022: Riku Yanagisawa
Riku Yanagisawa, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Takeru Yamamoto, Satoshi Koizumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2019: Yuta Matsumura
Yuta Matsumura, Tetsuro Shimizu, Yasumasa Tanida, Shinya Abe, Kosuke Aita
Kitami, JPN
2018: Reid Carruthers
Reid Carruthers, Mike McEwen, Matt Wozniak, Colin Hodgson
Winnipeg, CAN
2017: Yusuke Morozumi
Yusuke Morozumi, Tetsuro Shimizu, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Kosuke Morozumi
Karuizawa, JPN
2016: Tom Brewster
Tom Brewster, Glen Muirhead, Ross Paterson, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Aberdeen, SCO
2015: David Murdoch
David Murdoch, Greg Drummond, Scott Andrews, Michael Goodfellow
Stirling, SCO
2014: Kevin Koe
Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent Laing, Ben Hebert
Calgary, AB
2013: Chang-Min Kim
Chang-Min Kim, Min-Chan Kim, Se-Hyun Sung, Young-Seon Seo, Eun Soo Oh
Gyeongbuk Uiseong, KOR

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