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 3
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Direct Route to Semis |
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Hideaki Jo |
Japan |
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Ken Endo |
Japan |
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Kevin Sun |
Canada |
vs |
Suzhe QIU |
China |
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Freddie Hand |
UK |
vs |
Naoki Sekiya |
Japan |
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Robert Vollmert |
Germany |
vs |
Valentin Miakinen |
France |
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Indirect Route to Semis |
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yx c |
China |
vs |
Ryusuke Nishiyama |
Japan |
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Prasanna Seshadri |
India |
vs |
Zimi Li |
China |
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Takuma Muto |
Japan |
vs |
Kota Morinishi |
Japan |
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Kei Ota |
Japan |
vs |
Rintaro Matsumoto |
Japan |
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Aubin Danzo |
France |
vs |
Thomas Luo |
USA |
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Maxim Li |
USA |
vs |
Christian König |
Germany |
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Taigo Ando |
Japan |
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Jeffrey Bardon |
USA |
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Walker Anderson |
USA |
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Takeru Sugai |
Japan |
Puzzle Big Cup 2026 Round 2
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Direct Route to Semis |
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Kevin Sun |
Canada |
698-509 |
yx c |
China |
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Christian König |
Germany |
704-714 |
Hideaki Jo |
Japan |
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Takuma Muto |
Japan |
380-516 |
Valentin Miakinen |
France |
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Suzhe QIU |
China |
783-531 |
Rintaro Matsumoto |
Japan |
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Robert Vollmert |
Germany |
547-444 |
Walker Anderson |
USA |
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Ryusuke Nishiyama |
Japan |
470-831 |
Freddie Hand |
UK |
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Takeru Sugai |
Japan |
413-512 |
Naoki Sekiya |
Japan |
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Ken Endo |
Japan |
925.8-465 |
Taigo Ando |
Japan |
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Indirect Route to Semis |
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Kaz . |
USA |
417-583 |
Kota Morinishi |
Japan |
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Jeffrey Bardon |
USA |
522-0 |
Martin Ender |
Germany |
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Prasanna Seshadri |
India |
698-473 |
徐晨皓 samuelxu |
China |
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Thomas Luo |
USA |
564-0 |
Tantan Dai |
China |
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Zimi Li |
China |
0-0 |
Soji Kubota |
Japan |
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Aubin Danzo |
France |
490-272 |
Sakulbuth Ekvittayaniphon |
Thailand |
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Chiel Beenhakker |
Netherlands |
0-501 |
Maxim Li |
USA |
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Kei Ota |
Japan |
389-284 |
Aoi Nakano |
Japan |
Puzzle Big Cup 2026 Round 1
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Ken Endo |
Japan |
993-534 |
徐晨皓 samuelxu |
China |
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Maxim Li |
USA |
644-651 |
Takeru Sugai |
Japan |
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Takuma Muto |
Japan |
560-559 |
Aubin Danzo |
France |
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yx c |
China |
634-485 |
Aoi Nakano |
Japan |
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Prasanna Seshadri |
India |
663-784 |
Rintaro Matsumoto |
Japan |
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Walker Anderson |
USA |
659-304 |
Sakulbuth Ekvittayaniphon |
Thailand |
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Freddie Hand |
UK |
897-655 |
Kaz . |
USA |
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Kevin Sun |
Canada |
843-657 |
Thomas Luo |
USA |
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Zimi Li |
China |
0-617 |
Taigo Ando |
Japan |
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Valentin Miakinen |
France |
688-657 |
Jeffrey Bardon |
USA |
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Robert Vollmert |
Germany |
629-568 |
Chiel Beenhakker |
Netherlands |
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Christian König |
Germany |
685-0 |
Soji Kubota |
Japan |
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Tantan Dai |
China |
795-872 |
Hideaki Jo |
Japan |
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Kei Ota |
Japan |
342-736 |
Ryusuke Nishiyama |
Japan |
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Naoki Sekiya |
Japan |
645-0 |
Martin Ender |
Germany |
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Kota Morinishi |
Japan |
779-869 |
Suzhe QIU |
China |