# 2017 Karuizawa International Curling Championships

The 2017 Karuizawa International Curling Championships were held from December 14 to 17 at the Karuizawa Ice Park in Karuizawa, Japan. It is part of the 2017-18 World Curling Tour.

## Men
### Teams

The teams are listed as follows:
| Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Locale |
| Yuta Matsumura (Fourth) | Yasumasa Tanida | Shinya Abe (Skip) | Kosuke Aita | Sapporo, Hokkaido |
| Benoît Schwarz (Fourth) | Claudio Pätz | Peter de Cruz (Skip) | Valentin Tanner | Geneva, Switzerland |
| Jumpei Kanda | Shota Iino | Shinya Iwamoto | Shotaro Hashimoto | Tokyo |
| Arihito Kasahara | Akira Otsuka | Tomoya Watanabe | Yuta Higuchi | Tokyo |
| Kim Chang-min | Seong Se-hyeon | Oh Eun-soo | Lee Ki-bok | Uiseong, South Korea |
| Kim Soo-hyuk | Kim Tae-hwan | Park Jong-deok | Nam Yun-ho | Gangwon Province, South Korea |
| Kenji Komoda | Hideyuki Sato | Naoyuki Den | Takashaki Koyanagi | Sagamihara, Kanagawa |
| Hiromitsu Kuriyama | Ryo Kawanishi | Katsuhito Sumi | Satoshi Koizumi | Nagano, Nagano |
| Patric Mabergs | Fredrik Nyman | Vincent Stenberg | Johnannes Patz | Skellefteå, Sweden |
| Hayato Matsumura | Rui Sato | Genya Nishizawa | Syu Kai | Karuizawa, Nagano |
| Yusuke Morozumi | Tetsuro Shimizu | Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi | Kosuke Morozumi | Karuizawa, Nagano |
| Ryo Ogihara | Kohei Okamura | Kizuki Ryokawa | Daiki Yamazaki | Karuizawa, Nagano |
| Hiromu Otani | Daiki Shikano | Yusuke Nonomura | Rui Ishida | Kitami, Hokkaido |
| Kanya Shimizuno | Ryota Meguro | Sota Hirosawa | Ryota Haeno | Furano, Hokkaido |
| Kyle Smith | Thomas Muirhead | Kyle Waddell | Cameron Smith | Perth, Scotland |

### Round-robin standings

Key :
* Teams to Playoffs
| Pool A | W | L |
| Kim Chang-min | 4 | 0 |
| Patric Mabergs | 3 | 1 |
| Junpei Kanda | 2 | 2 |
| Hiromu Otani | 1 | 3 |
| Hiromitsu Kuriyama | 0 | 4 |
| Pool B | W | L |
| Yusuke Morozumi | 4 | 0 |
| Peter de Cruz | 3 | 1 |
| Shinya Abe | 2 | 2 |
| Hayato Matsumura | 1 | 3 |
| Kenji Komoda | 0 | 4 |
| Pool C | W | L |
| Kyle Smith | 4 | 0 |
| Kim Soo-hyuk | 3 | 1 |
| Arihito Kasahara | 2 | 2 |
| Ryo Ogihara | 1 | 3 |
| Kanya Shimizuno | 0 | 4 |

## Playoffs

| Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final |
| 1 Yusuke Morozumi | 1 Yusuke Morozumi | 6 | | | | | | |
| 8 Junpei Kanda | 8 Junpei Kanda | 3 | | | | | | |
| 8 Junpei Kanda | 8 Junpei Kanda | 3 | 1 Yusuke Morozumi | 1 Yusuke Morozumi | 7 | | | |
| | | | 4 Patric Mabergs | 4 Patric Mabergs | 1 | | | |
| 4 Patric Mabergs | 4 Patric Mabergs | 4 | 4 Patric Mabergs | 4 Patric Mabergs | 1 | | | |
| 5 Kim Soo-hyuk | 5 Kim Soo-hyuk | 1 | | | | | | |
| 5 Kim Soo-hyuk | 5 Kim Soo-hyuk | 1 | | | | 1 Yusuke Morozumi | 1 Yusuke Morozumi | 6 |
| | | | | | | 2 Kim Chang-min | 2 Kim Chang-min | 5 |
| 2 Kim Chang-min | 2 Kim Chang-min | 6 | | | | | | | 2 Kim Chang-min | 2 Kim Chang-min | 5 |
| 7 Arhito Kasahara | 7 Arhito Kasahara | 3 | | | | | | |
| 7 Arhito Kasahara | 7 Arhito Kasahara | 3 | 2 Kim Chang-min | 2 Kim Chang-min | 6 | | | |
| | | | 3 Kyle Smith | 3 Kyle Smith | 5 | | | |
| 3 Kyle Smith | 3 Kyle Smith | 6 | 3 Kyle Smith | 3 Kyle Smith | 5 | | | |
| 6 Peter de Cruz | 6 Peter de Cruz | 4 | | | | | | |

## Women
### Teams

The teams are listed as follows:
| Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Locale |
| Satsuki Fujisawa | Chinami Yoshida | Yumi Suzuki | Yurika Yoshida | Kitami, Hokkaido |
| Gim Un-chi | Um Min-ji | Seol Ye-eun | Yeom Yoon-jung | Gyeonggi-do, South Korea |
| Anna Hasselborg | Sara McManus | Agnes Knochenhauer | Sofia Mabergs | Sundbyberg, Sweden |
| Kang Sue-yoen | Kim Eun-bi | Chung Jae-yi | Hyoung Bo-ram | Seoul, South Korea |
| Kim Eun-jung | Kim Kyeong-ae | Kim Seon-yeong | Kim Yeong-mi | Uiseong, South Korea |
| Junko Nishimuro (Fourth) | Tori Koana (Skip) | Yuna Kotani | Mao Ishigaki | Yamanashi, Yamanashi |
| Chiaki Matsumura | Emi Shimizu | Ikue Kitazawa | Hasumi Ishigooka | Karuizawa, Nagano |
| Eve Muirhead | Anna Sloan | Vicki Adams | Lauren Gray | Perth, Scotland |
| Mayu Natsuizaka | Haruka Fujii | Mari Ikawa | Tamaki Kogawa | Sapporo, Hokkaido |
| Ayumi Ogasawara | Yumie Funayama | Kaho Onodera | Anna Ohmiya | Sapporo, Hokkaido |
| Oh Eun-jin | Kim Su-ji | Kim Ji-hyeon | Park Jeong-hwa | Chuncheon, South Korea |
| Alina Pätz | Nadine Lehmann | Marisa Winkelhausen | Nicole Schwägli | Zürich, Switzerland |
| Ami Enami (Fourth) | Minori Suzuki | Sae Yamamoto | Mone Ryokawa (Skip) | Karuizawa, Nagano |
| Anna Sidorova | Margarita Fomina | Alexandra Raeva | Nkeiruka Ezekh | Moscow, Russia |
| Silvana Tirinzoni | Manuela Siegrist | Esther Neuenschwander | Marlene Albrecht | Aarau, Switzerland |

### Round-robin standings

Key :
* Teams to Playoffs
| Pool A | W | L |
| Gim Un-chi | 4 | 0 |
| Eve Muirhead | 3 | 1 |
| Chiaki Matsumura | 2 | 2 |
| Alina Patz | 1 | 3 |
| Mayu Natsuizaka | 0 | 4 |
| Pool A | W | L |
| Anna Hasselborg | 4 | 0 |
| Anna Sidorova | 3 | 1 |
| Satsuki Fujisawa | 2 | 2 |
| Kang Sue-yoen | 1 | 3 |
| Mone Ryokawa | 0 | 4 |
| Pool C | W | L |
| Silvana Tirinzoni | 3 | 1 |
| Ayumi Ogasawara | 3 | 1 |
| Oh Eun-jin | 2 | 2 |
| Kim Eun-jung | 2 | 2 |
| Tori Koana | 0 | 3 |

### Round-robin results

All draw times listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+9).

## Playoffs

| Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final |
| 1 Gim Un-chi | 1 Gim Un-chi | 3 | | | | | | |
| 8 Chiaki Matsumura | 8 Chiaki Matsumura | 5 | | | | | | |
| 8 Chiaki Matsumura | 8 Chiaki Matsumura | 5 | 8 Chiaki Matsumura | 8 Chiaki Matsumura | 6 | | | |
| | | | 5 Ayumi Ogasawara | 5 Ayumi Ogasawara | 3 | | | |
| 4 Anna Sidorova | 4 Anna Sidorova | 5 | 5 Ayumi Ogasawara | 5 Ayumi Ogasawara | 3 | | | |
| 5 Ayumi Ogasawara | 5 Ayumi Ogasawara | 6 | | | | | | |
| 5 Ayumi Ogasawara | 5 Ayumi Ogasawara | 6 | | | | 8 Chiaki Matsumura | 8 Chiaki Matsumura | 3 |
| | | | | | | 7 Satsuki Fujisawa | 7 Satsuki Fujisawa | 10 |
| 2 Anna Hasselborg | 2 Anna Hasselborg | 5 | | | | | | | 7 Satsuki Fujisawa | 7 Satsuki Fujisawa | 10 |
| 7 Satsuki Fujisawa | 7 Satsuki Fujisawa | 6 | | | | | | |
| 7 Satsuki Fujisawa | 7 Satsuki Fujisawa | 6 | 7 Satsuki Fujisawa | 7 Satsuki Fujisawa | 6 | | | |
| | | | 3 Silvana Tirinzoni | 3 Silvana Tirinzoni | 5 | | | |
| 3 Silvana Tirinzoni | 3 Silvana Tirinzoni | 5 | 3 Silvana Tirinzoni | 3 Silvana Tirinzoni | 5 | | | |
| 6 Eve Muirhead | 6 Eve Muirhead | 2 | | | | | | |