2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic

The 2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic was held August 1–4, 2019 in Sapporo, Japan. It was the second event of the 2019–20 curling season. The total purse for the event was ¥ 1,700,000.^[1][2]

2019 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic
Host city	Sapporo, Japan
Dates	August 1–4, 2019
Men's winner	Team Matsumura
Curling club	Hokkaido CS, Hokkaido
Skip	Yuta Matsumura
Third	Tetsuro Shimizu
Second	Yasumasa Tanida
Lead	Shinya Abe
Finalist	Scott McDonald
Women's winner	Team Jiang
Curling club	Harbin CC, Harbin
Skip	Jiang Yilun
Third	Zhang Lijun
Second	Dong Ziqi
Lead	Jiang Xindi
Finalist	Satsuki Fujisawa
« 2018 2021 »

In the Men's event, Yuta Matsumura defeated Scott McDonald 7–2 in the final and Kirk Muyres beat Kim Soo-hyuk 7–3 in the Bronze Medal Game.^[3] In the Women's event, Jiang Yilun defeated Satsuki Fujisawa 7–2 in the final and Mei Jie beat Tracy Fleury 7–5 in the Bronze Medal Game.^[4]

Men

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:^[5]

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Locale
Jason Gunnlaugson	Alex Forrest	Adam Casey	Connor Njegovan	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Go Aoki (Fourth)	Kei Kamada (Skip)	Ayato Sasaki	Kouki Ogiwara	Sapporo, Japan
Junpei Kanda	Hiromu Otani	Kizuki Ryokawa	Shotaro Hashimoto	Tokyo, Japan
Kim Soo-hyuk	Lee Jeong-jae	Jeong Byeong-jin	Hwang Hyeon-jun	Seoul, South Korea
Yuta Matsumura	Tetsuro Shimizu	Yasumasa Tanida	Shinya Abe	Kitami, Japan
Scott McDonald	Jonathan Beuk	Wesley Forget	Scott Chadwick	Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Yusuke Morozumi	Masaki Iwai	Ryotaro Shukuya	Kosuke Morozumi	Karuizawa, Japan
Kirk Muyres	Kevin Marsh	Dan Marsh	Dallan Muyres	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Park Jong-duk	Nam Yoon-ho	Yoo Min-hyeon	Kim Jeong-min	Gangwon, South Korea
Ba Dexin (Fourth)	Zou Qiang (Skip)	Wang Zhiyu	Xu Jingtao	Beijing, China

Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings^[6]

Key
	Teams to Playoffs

Pool A W L Yuta Matsumura 3 1 Kim Soo-hyuk 3 1 Jason Gunnlaugson 3 1 Zou Qiang 1 3 Junpei Kanda 0 4

Pool B W L Scott McDonald 3 1 Kirk Muyres 2 2 Kei Kamada 2 2 Park Jong-duk 2 2 Yusuke Morozumi 1 3

Round-robin results

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

Draw 2

Thursday, August 1, 13:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Zou Qiang	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	3
Kim Soo-hyuk	2	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	6

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kirk Muyres	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	X	4
Scott McDonald	3	1	0	0	0	1	0	X	5

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kei Kamada	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	1	5
Yusuke Morozumi	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Junpei Kanda	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	1	5
Jason Gunnlaugson	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	6

Draw 3

Friday, August 2, 08:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kirk Muyres	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	X	3
Park Jong-duk	2	2	0	3	0	1	2	X	10

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Jason Gunnlaugson	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	4
Zou Qiang	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	3

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Junpei Kanda	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	X	0
Yuta Matsumura	2	0	2	0	1	1	X	X	6

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Scott McDonald	0	0	1	3	0	1	0	X	5
Kei Kamada	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	X	3

Draw 5

Friday, August 2, 15:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Jason Gunnlaugson	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	0	5
Yuta Matsumura	0	1	1	0	3	1	0	1	7

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kim Soo-hyuk	0	0	1	2	0	1	0	1	5
Junpei Kanda	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	3

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Scott McDonald	0	2	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	7
Park Jong-duk	1	0	0	0	3	0	1	1	0	6

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Yusuke Morozumi	0	3	0	2	0	1	0	1	7
Kirk Muyres	2	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	8

Draw 7

Saturday, August 3, 08:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Park Jong-duk	0	1	0	2	0	3	0	X	6
Yusuke Morozumi	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	X	3

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kei Kamada	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	0
Kirk Muyres	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	X	3

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Yuta Matsumura	2	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	6
Kim Soo-hyuk	0	4	0	0	1	0	0	2	7

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Zou Qiang	3	1	2	2	0	1	X	X	9
Junpei Kanda	0	0	0	0	1	0	X	X	1

Draw 9

Saturday, August 3, 15:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Yusuke Morozumi	2	0	0	2	2	0	2	X	8
Scott McDonald	0	1	2	0	0	2	0	X	5

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Park Jong-duk	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	4
Kei Kamada	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	1	6

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kim Soo-hyuk	1	0	2	0	0	1	0	X	4
Jason Gunnlaugson	0	2	0	2	3	0	2	X	9

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Yuta Matsumura	0	2	0	2	2	0	0	X	6
Zou Qiang	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	X	4

Playoffs

Source: ^[9]

	Semifinals					Final
	A1	Yuta Matsumura	6
	B2	Kirk Muyres	5
						A1	Yuta Matsumura	7
						B1	Scott McDonald	2
	B1	Scott McDonald	7
	A2	Kim Soo-hyuk	2

	Bronze-medal game
	B2	Kirk Muyres	7
	A2	Kim Soo-hyuk	3

Semifinals

Sunday, August 4, 08:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Scott McDonald	0	0	1	0	3	3	X	X	7
Kim Soo-hyuk	1	0	0	1	0	0	X	X	2

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final
Yuta Matsumura	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	1	1	6
Kirk Muyres	2	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	5

Final

Sunday, August 4, 11:30

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Yuta Matsumura	3	0	2	1	1	0	X	X	7
Scott McDonald	0	1	0	0	0	1	X	X	2

Bronze-medal game

Sunday, August 4, 11:30

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Kirk Muyres	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	2	7
Kim Soo-hyuk	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	3

Women

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:^[10]

Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Locale
Tracy Fleury	Selena Njegovan	Taylor McDonald	Kristin MacCuish	East St. Paul, Manitoba, Canada
Satsuki Fujisawa	Chinami Yoshida	Yumi Suzuki	Yurika Yoshida	Kitami, Japan
Miki Hayashi	Yako Matsuzawa	Kairi Ito	Manami Ohara	Sapporo, Japan
Jiang Yilun	Zhang Lijun	Dong Ziqi	Jiang Xindi	Beijing, China
Tori Koana	Yuna Kotani	Mao Ishigaki	Arisa Kotani	Yamanashi, Japan
Wang Rui (Fourth)	Mei Jie (Skip)	Yao Mingyue	Ma Jingyi	Beijing, China
Ikue Kitazawa (Fourth)	Chiaki Matsumura	Seina Nakajima (Skip)	Hasumi Ishigooka	Nagano, Japan
Vlada Rumiantseva	Vera Tiuliakova	Irina Riazanova	Anastasia Mishchenko	Moscow, Russia
Momoha Tabata	Honoka Sasaki	Mikoto Nakajima	Mina Kobayashi	Sapporo, Japan
Sayaka Yoshimura	Kaho Onodera	Anna Ohmiya	Yumie Funayama	Sapporo, Japan

Round-robin standings

Final round-robin standings^[11]

Key
	Teams to Playoffs

Pool A W L Satsuki Fujisawa 3 1 Jiang Yilun 3 1 Sayaka Yoshimura 3 1 Vlada Rumiantseva 1 3 Momoha Tabata 0 4

Pool B W L Mei Jie 4 0 Tracy Fleury 3 1 Seina Nakajima 2 2 Tori Koana 1 3 Miki Hayashi 0 4

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in Japan Standard Time (UTC+09:00).^[12][13]

Draw 1

Thursday, August 1, 09:30

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Miki Hayashi	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	X	3
Tori Koana	0	3	1	1	1	0	3	X	9

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Momoha Tabata	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	3
Jiang Yilun	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	5

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Vlada Rumiantseva	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	X	2
Sayaka Yoshimura	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	X	4

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Mei Jie	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	5
Tracy Fleury	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	4

Draw 4

Friday, August 2, 11:30

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Momoha Tabata	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	X	4
Satsuki Fujisawa	1	1	0	2	0	2	0	X	6

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Tracy Fleury	4	0	0	1	1	0	1	X	7
Miki Hayashi	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	2

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Mei Jie	0	0	3	0	2	0	1	1	7
Seina Nakajima	2	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	6

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Jiang Yilun	4	0	1	1	0	2	0	X	8
Vlada Rumiantseva	0	3	0	0	2	0	1	X	6

Draw 6

Friday, August 2, 18:30

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Tracy Fleury	0	0	3	1	0	2	1	X	7
Seina Nakajima	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	X	4

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Mei Jie	2	0	0	1	0	1	1	4	9
Tori Koana	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Jiang Yilun	0	0	2	0	3	0	0	X	5
Satsuki Fujisawa	2	1	0	1	0	2	2	X	8

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Sayaka Yoshimura	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	1	5
Momoha Tabata	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	3

Draw 8

Saturday, August 3, 11:30

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Satsuki Fujisawa	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	4
Sayaka Yoshimura	0	0	2	2	0	1	0	3	8

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Vlada Rumiantseva	2	1	0	1	1	0	2	X	7
Momoha Tabata	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	2

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Seina Nakajima	1	3	1	0	0	0	1	X	6
Tori Koana	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	X	4

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Miki Hayashi	0	0	1	0	2	0	X	X	3
Mei Jie	3	2	0	4	0	2	X	X	11

Draw 10

Saturday, August 3, 18:30

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Sayaka Yoshimura	0	0	0	0	1	0	X	X	1
Jiang Yilun	0	2	1	3	0	1	X	X	7

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Satsuki Fujisawa	1	2	0	1	0	3	1	X	8
Vlada Rumiantseva	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	X	3

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Tori Koana	0	0	2	0	0	0	X	X	2
Tracy Fleury	3	2	0	0	1	2	X	X	8

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Seina Nakajima	1	1	0	5	2	0	X	X	9
Miki Hayashi	0	0	1	0	0	1	X	X	2

Playoffs

Source: ^[14]

	Semifinals					Final
	A1	Satsuki Fujisawa	7
	B2	Tracy Fleury	6
						A1	Satsuki Fujisawa	2
						A2	Jiang Yilun	7
	B1	Mei Jie	1
	A2	Jiang Yilun	4

	Bronze-medal game
	B2	Tracy Fleury	5
	B1	Mei Jie	7

Semifinals

Sunday, August 4, 08:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Satsuki Fujisawa	1	0	2	0	1	0	3	0	7
Tracy Fleury	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	1	6

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Mei Jie	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	X	1
Jiang Yilun	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	X	4

Final

Sunday, August 4, 17:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Satsuki Fujisawa	0	0	2	0	0	0	X	X	2
Jiang Yilun	3	2	0	0	1	1	X	X	7

Bronze-medal game

Sunday, August 4, 17:00

Sheet E	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Tracy Fleury	0	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	5
Mei Jie	0	0	1	2	0	2	0	2	7