Sudoku Big Cup 2026
The top 32 players with at least 6 appearances, by maximum score last year, have been randomly matched up. In the Big Cup, players get two bites of the cherry to reach the semi finals. If they lose once, then they enter the Indirect Route, which requires more wins to reach the semi finals.
As in the other Levelled Cups, in the event of a draw (including where neither player competes in the round, but not where players get the same score with different times), the highest score in the previous round (including last year, if necessary) breaks the tie.
Sudoku Big Cup 2026 Round 2
| Direct Route to Semis | ||||
| Hideaki Jo | Japan | vs | Don Wu | Taiwan |
| Zbigniew Zarzycki | Poland | vs | Siyuan Luo | China |
| Ken Endo | Japan | vs | Letian Ming | China |
| Seungjae Kwak | Korea, South | vs | Kota Morinishi | Japan |
| Đức Chiến Nguyễn | Vietnam | vs | Cheran Sun | China |
| Khả Lê Minh | Vietnam | vs | Tantan Dai | China |
| Vincent Bertrand | Belgium | vs | Hu Yuxuan Hu | China |
| Suzhe QIU | China | vs | Dominik Bezkosty | Poland |
| Indirect Route to Semis | ||||
| Le Duo Yang | China | vs | Zhenxin Gao | China |
| Takuya Sugimoto | Japan | vs | Jan Vondruška | Czech Rep. |
| Sumate Juariyamark | Thailand | vs | Can Erturan | Turkey |
| Tawan Sunathvanichkul | Thailand | vs | Zhichao Li | China |
| Weifan Wang | China | vs | Jordyn Hyde | USA |
| Timothy Doyle | France | vs | Prasanna Seshadri | India |
| Jakub Ondroušek | Czech Rep. | vs | Rintaro Matsumoto | Japan |
| Vita Gamber | Germany | vs | Kishore Sridharan | India |
Sudoku Big Cup 2026 Round 1
| Sumate Juariyamark | Thailand | 542-556 | Hideaki Jo | Japan |
| Timothy Doyle | France | 607-629 | Zbigniew Zarzycki | Poland |
| Jakub Ondroušek | Czech Rep. | 822.7-871.3 | Ken Endo | Japan |
| Seungjae Kwak | Korea, South | 812.3-539 | Rintaro Matsumoto | Japan |
| Takuya Sugimoto | Japan | 667.8-720 | Đức Chiến Nguyễn | Vietnam |
| Vita Gamber | Germany | 0-663 | Khả Lê Minh | Vietnam |
| Vincent Bertrand | Belgium | 837.8-339 | Zhichao Li | China |
| Can Erturan | Turkey | author (649) – 922.3 | Suzhe QIU | China |
| Zhenxin Gao | China | 373-734.9 | Don Wu | Taiwan |
| Tawan Sunathvanichkul | Thailand | 0-0 | Siyuan Luo | China |
| Letian Ming | China | 1064.7-812.8 | Jan Vondruška | Czech Rep. |
| Le Duo Yang | China | 0-863 | Kota Morinishi | Japan |
| Weifan Wang | China | 473-918.2 | Cheran Sun | China |
| Tantan Dai | China | 983.3-874.3 | Prasanna Seshadri | India |
| Jordyn Hyde | USA | 665-909.5 | Hu Yuxuan Hu | China |
| Dominik Bezkosty | Poland | 661-512 | Kishore Sridharan | India |