In the playoffs, they defeated Naomasa Takeda in the 3 vs. 4 game, before losing to Masaki Iwai in the semifinal, settling for third place.

[4] That season, the team played in many tour events, winning the Moosehead Fall Open in Canada, and the Keijinkai Rizing Cup back home in Japan.

Yanagisawa and his team of Yamaguchi now at third, a 15 year old Takeru Yamamoto and Satoshi Koizumi went undefeated in the round robin of the 2022 Japanese championship.

This was still good enough to make it to the playoffs, but they lost the semifinal to Canada, and the bronze medal game to the United States.

[5] The team would tour Canada for over three months from August to December, and were based out of Kelowna, British Columbia,[8] where they trained with their coach Bob Ursel.