Asterios Varsamis-Kyratlidis took the first silverware of 2026 with a 288-214 win over Manuel Ukota in the 155 Cup. The other five cup finals are ready for Round 6:
555: Xingjuan Cui (China) vs Kazuya Yamamoto (Japan)
460: Kazuki Sugiura (Japan) vs Aleksei Daniliuk (UK)
360: Sébastien Tainon (France) vs Marcin Smulewicz (Poland)
280: Marek Oja (Estonia) vs Brett Tyrrell (USA)
200: Dmitriy Popov (Russia) vs Moriyuki Machimura (Japan)
The Last Chance Cup has also reached the quarter final stages: https://www.thepuzzle.place/puzzle-last-chance-cup/
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