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2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup

The 2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup was held from August 10 to 13 at the Wakkanai City Midori Sports Park in Wakkanai, Japan.[1] It was the third tour event of the 2023–24 curling season and the second event of the Hokkaido Curling Tour. The total purse for the event was ¥ 1,700,000 on both the men's and women's sides.[2][3]

2023 Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup
Host cityWakkanai, Japan
ArenaWakkanai City Midori Sports Park
DatesAugust 10–13
Men's winner Team Morozumi
Curling clubKaruizawa CC, Karuizawa
SkipYusuke Morozumi
ThirdYuta Matsumura
SecondRyotaro Shukuya
LeadMasaki Iwai
AlternateKosuke Morozumi
Finalist Hayato Sato
Women's winner Team Yoshimura
Curling clubHokkaido Bank CS, Sapporo
SkipYuna Kotani
ThirdKaho Onodera
SecondAnna Ohmiya
LeadMina Kobayashi
AlternateSayaka Yoshimura
CoachYumie Funayama
Finalist Kohane Tsuruga
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Men edit

Teams edit

The teams are listed as follows:[4][5]

Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale
Tetsuro Shimizu (Fourth) Haruto Ouchi Shinya Abe (Skip) Sota Tsuruga Makoto Tsuruga   Sapporo
Kohsuke Hirata Shingo Usui Ryota Meguro Yoshiya Miura Kosuke Aita   Kitami
Juon Ishimura (Fourth) Youn Ishimura (Skip) Yuto Nakagawa Shunki Kudo   Aomori
Kantaro Kawano Kazuki Matsuoka Shun Takahashi Genji Ohara Keita Nishizawa   Sapporo
Takumi Maeda Asei Nakahara Uryu Kamikawa –[a]   Kitami
Yusuke Morozumi Yuta Matsumura Ryotaro Shukuya Masaki Iwai Kosuke Morozumi   Karuizawa
Go Aoki (Fourth) Hayato Sato (Skip) Kouki Ogiwara Kazushi Nino Ayato Sasaki   Sapporo
Riku Yanagisawa Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi Takeru Yamamoto Satoshi Koizumi   Karuizawa

Round robin standings edit

Final Round Robin Standings[6]

Key
Teams to Playoffs
Pool A W L W–L PF PA DSC
  Riku Yanagisawa 3 0 – 31 9 28.34
  Takumi Maeda 1 2 1–1 20 17 39.94
  Shinya Abe 1 2 1–1 15 21 44.48
  Youn Ishimura 1 2 1–1 9 28 116.38
Pool B W L W–L PF PA DSC
  Yusuke Morozumi 3 0 – 22 13 30.12
  Hayato Sato 2 1 – 19 19 17.22
  Kohsuke Hirata 1 2 – 21 14 20.38
  Kantaro Kawano 0 3 – 10 26 33.76

Round robin results edit

All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).[7][8]

Draw 1 edit

Thursday, August 10, 2:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Takumi Maeda   2 1 1 2 2 3 X X 11
  Youn Ishimura 0 0 0 0 0 0 X X 0
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Riku Yanagisawa   1 0 1 1 1 0 5 X 9
  Shinya Abe 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 X 3
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Hayato Sato   3 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 7
  Kohsuke Hirata 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 5
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Yusuke Morozumi 1 0 3 0 2 0 2 X 8
  Kantaro Kawano   0 0 0 1 0 2 0 X 3

Draw 3 edit

Friday, August 11, 10:30 am

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
  Kohsuke Hirata 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 5
  Yusuke Morozumi   1 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 6
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Hayato Sato   2 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 7
  Kantaro Kawano 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 6
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Youn Ishimura 0 0 1 0 1 0 X X 2
  Riku Yanagisawa   3 2 0 3 0 3 X X 11
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Takumi Maeda   1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 5
  Shinya Abe 0 3 0 0 0 2 1 0 6

Draw 5 edit

Friday, August 11, 5:30 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Riku Yanagisawa 0 1 6 0 0 0 4 X 11
  Takumi Maeda   1 0 0 1 1 1 0 X 4
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Yusuke Morozumi 0 0 2 0 2 0 3 1 8
  Hayato Sato   1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 5
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Shinya Abe   2 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 6
  Youn Ishimura 0 3 0 0 2 1 0 1 7
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Kantaro Kawano 0 1 0 0 0 0 X X 1
  Kohsuke Hirata   2 0 4 1 2 2 X X 11

Playoffs edit

Source:[9]

Semifinals Final
      
A1   Riku Yanagisawa 5
B2   Hayato Sato 6
B2   Hayato Sato 6
B1   Yusuke Morozumi 9
B1   Yusuke Morozumi 5
A2   Takumi Maeda 4 Third place game
A1   Riku Yanagisawa 8
A2   Takumi Maeda 4

Semifinals edit

Saturday, August 12, 2:00 pm

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Riku Yanagisawa   0 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 5
  Hayato Sato 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 2 6
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
  Yusuke Morozumi   2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 5
  Takumi Maeda 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 4

Third place game edit

Sunday, August 13, 10:00 am

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Riku Yanagisawa   2 0 2 1 0 2 1 X 8
  Takumi Maeda 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 X 4

Final edit

Sunday, August 13, 10:00 am

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Hayato Sato 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 1 6
  Yusuke Morozumi   2 0 3 0 0 1 3 0 9

Women edit

Teams edit

The teams are listed as follows:[5][10]

Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Locale
Kana Ogawa Mizuki Saito Mika Okuyama Rimu Maruyama[b]   Sapporo
Ai Matsunaga Yuna Sakuma Ayana Oikawa[c] –[d]   Nayoro
Misaki Tanaka (Fourth) Miori Nakamura (Skip) Haruka Kihara –[e]   Aomori
Akari Hashimoto (Fourth) Kotone Suzuki Minami Nakao (Skip) Aira Inada Moka Tanaka   Sapporo
Honoka Sasaki Mari Motohashi Miki Hayashi Mayumi Saito Yako Matsuzawa   Kitami
Aone Nakamura (Fourth) Natsuki Sato (Skip) Himari Ichiyama Hiori Ichiyama Misako Kawahira   Obihiro
Kohane Tsuruga Ayami Ito Mikoto Nakajima Suzune Yasui   Sapporo
Yuna Kotani[f] Kaho Onodera Anna Ohmiya Mina Kobayashi Sayaka Yoshimura[f]   Sapporo

Round robin standings edit

Final Round Robin Standings[11]

Key
Teams to Playoffs
Pool A W L W–L PF PA DSC
  Kohane Tsuruga 2 1 1–1 20 11 27.86
  Honoka Sasaki 2 1 1–1 21 16 78.34
  Miori Nakamura 2 1 1–1 16 17 86.36
  Minami Nakao 0 3 – 11 24 65.52
Pool B W L W–L PF PA DSC
  Team Yoshimura 3 0 – 30 7 20.18
  Team Minami 1 2 1–1 13 15 39.18
  Natsuki Sato 1 2 1–1 12 21 83.54
  Team Miura 1 2 1–1 11 23 85.20

Round robin results edit

All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).[8][12]

Draw 2 edit

Thursday, August 10, 5:30 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Honoka Sasaki 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 4
  Kohane Tsuruga   0 1 0 1 0 1 0 5 8
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Minami Nakao   0 1 0 1 2 0 1 X 5
  Miori Nakamura 1 0 2 0 0 4 0 X 7
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Natsuki Sato 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2
  Team Minami   0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 5
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Team Miura 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 X 2
  Team Yoshimura   2 1 3 1 0 3 0 X 10

Draw 4 edit

Friday, August 11, 2:00 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Team Minami   0 1 0 2 0 1 1 X 5
  Team Miura 1 0 2 0 3 0 0 X 6
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Natsuki Sato 0 0 2 0 0 0 X X 2
  Team Yoshimura   0 5 0 3 4 1 X X 13
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Kohane Tsuruga   1 0 0 1 1 1 4 X 8
  Minami Nakao 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 X 2
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Honoka Sasaki 0 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 8
  Miori Nakamura   2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 4

Draw 6 edit

Saturday, August 12, 10:00 am

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Minami Nakao 0 2 0 1 0 1 X X 4
  Honoka Sasaki   2 0 4 0 3 0 X X 9
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Team Miura 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 X 3
  Natsuki Sato   0 1 0 2 3 0 2 X 8
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Miori Nakamura 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 5
  Kohane Tsuruga   1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 4
Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Team Yoshimura   0 2 0 1 3 0 1 X 7
  Team Minami 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 X 3

Playoffs edit

Source:[13]

Semifinals Final
      
A1   Kohane Tsuruga 9
B2   Team Minami 1
A1   Kohane Tsuruga 3
B1   Team Yoshimura 8
B1   Team Yoshimura 8
A2   Honoka Sasaki 6 Third place game
B2   Team Minami 2
A2   Honoka Sasaki 7

Semifinals edit

Saturday, August 12, 5:30 pm

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Kohane Tsuruga 0 0 1 1 2 2 3 X 9
  Team Minami   0 1 0 0 0 0 0 X 1
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Final
  Team Yoshimura 0 1 0 1 0 3 1 0 2 8
  Honoka Sasaki   0 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 6

Third place game edit

Sunday, August 13, 2:00 pm

Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Team Minami   1 0 0 0 0 1 X X 2
  Honoka Sasaki 0 1 2 2 2 0 X X 7

Final edit

Sunday, August 13, 2:00 pm

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Kohane Tsuruga   1 0 0 0 1 1 0 X 3
  Team Yoshimura 0 2 0 2 0 0 4 X 8

Notes edit

  1. ^ Team Maeda played with three players.
  2. ^ Rimu Maruyama spared for Mayu Minami. She played lead while the rest of the team each moved up a position in the lineup.
  3. ^ Ayana Oikawa spared on Team Miura.
  4. ^ Team Miura played with three players
  5. ^ Team Nakamura played with three players.
  6. ^ a b As skip Sayaka Yoshimura was on maternity leave, the rest of the team moved up the lineup a position. Yoshimura was listed as the alternate on the roster, however.

References edit

  1. ^ "Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup 2023". Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  2. ^ "Men's Event". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  3. ^ "Women's Event". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  4. ^ "Men's Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  5. ^ a b "Teams List". Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  6. ^ "Men's Standings". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  7. ^ "Men's Scores". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  8. ^ a b "Schedule". Wakkanai Midori Challenge Cup. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  9. ^ "Men's Playoffs". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  10. ^ "Women's Teams". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  11. ^ "Women's Standings". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  12. ^ "Women's Scores". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  13. ^ "Women's Playoffs". CurlingZone. Retrieved August 9, 2023.

External links edit

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