# 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. 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.

## Men
### Teams

The teams are listed as follows:
| 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 | – | | 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

Final Round Robin Standings
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

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

#### Draw 1

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

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

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

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

#### Semifinals

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

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

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
### Teams

The teams are listed as follows:
| Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Locale |
| Kana Ogawa | Mizuki Saito | Mika Okuyama | Rimu Maruyama | | Sapporo |
| Ai Matsunaga | Yuna Sakuma | Ayana Oikawa | – | | Nayoro |
| Misaki Tanaka (Fourth) | Miori Nakamura (Skip) | Haruka Kihara | – | | 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 | Kaho Onodera | Anna Ohmiya | Mina Kobayashi | Sayaka Yoshimura | Sapporo |

### Round robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings
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

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

#### Draw 2

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

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

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

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

#### Semifinals

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

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

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 |