Puzzle 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.

Puzzle Big Cup 2026 Round 2

Direct Route to Semis
Kevin Sun Canada vs yx c China
Christian König Germany vs Hideaki Jo Japan
Takuma Muto Japan vs Valentin Miakinen France
Suzhe QIU China vs Rintaro Matsumoto Japan
Robert Vollmert Germany vs Walker Anderson USA
Ryusuke Nishiyama Japan vs Freddie Hand UK
Takeru Sugai Japan vs Naoki Sekiya Japan
Ken Endo Japan vs Taigo Ando Japan
Indirect Route to Semis
Kaz . USA vs Kota Morinishi Japan
Jeffrey Bardon USA vs Martin Ender Germany
Prasanna Seshadri India vs 徐晨皓 samuelxu China
Thomas Luo USA vs Tantan Dai China
Zimi Li China vs Soji Kubota Japan
Aubin Danzo France vs Sakulbuth Ekvittayaniphon Thailand
Chiel Beenhakker Netherlands vs Maxim Li USA
Kei Ota Japan vs Aoi Nakano Japan

Puzzle Big Cup 2026 Round 1

Ken Endo Japan 993-534 徐晨皓 samuelxu China
Maxim Li USA 644-651 Takeru Sugai Japan
Takuma Muto Japan 560-559 Aubin Danzo France
yx c China 634-485 Aoi Nakano Japan
Prasanna Seshadri India 663-784 Rintaro Matsumoto Japan
Walker Anderson USA 659-304 Sakulbuth Ekvittayaniphon Thailand
Freddie Hand UK 897-655 Kaz . USA
Kevin Sun Canada 843-657 Thomas Luo USA
Zimi Li China 0-617 Taigo Ando Japan
Valentin Miakinen France 688-657 Jeffrey Bardon USA
Robert Vollmert Germany 629-568 Chiel Beenhakker Netherlands
Christian König Germany 685-0 Soji Kubota Japan
Tantan Dai China 795-872 Hideaki Jo Japan
Kei Ota Japan 342-736 Ryusuke Nishiyama Japan
Naoki Sekiya Japan 645-0 Martin Ender Germany
Kota Morinishi Japan 779-869 Suzhe QIU China