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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 4

Direct Route to Semis
Vincent Bertrand Belgium vs Tantan Dai China
Suzhe QIU China vs Kota Morinishi Japan
Indirect Route to Semis
Dominik Bezkosty Poland vs Hu Yuxuan Hu China
Jan Vondruška Czech Rep. vs Weifan Wang China
Zhenxin Gao China vs Letian Ming China
Cheran Sun China vs Ken Endo Japan
Hideaki Jo Japan vs Seungjae Kwak Korea, South
Zbigniew Zarzycki Poland vs Jakub Ondroušek Czech Rep.

Sudoku Big Cup 2026 Round 3

Direct Route to Semis
Hideaki Jo Japan 602-1030 Suzhe QIU China
Cheran Sun China 913.3-964.8 Kota Morinishi Japan
Letian Ming China 1079.8-1099.7 Tantan Dai China
Vincent Bertrand Belgium 867.7-595 Zbigniew Zarzycki Poland
Indirect Route to Semis
Kishore Sridharan India 737.3-789.2 Zhenxin Gao China
Siyuan Luo China 884.8-1077.8 Jakub Ondroušek Czech Rep.
Can Erturan Turkey 0-829.2 Dominik Bezkosty Poland
Prasanna Seshadri India 841.5-893.8 Ken Endo Japan
Tawan Sunathvanichkul Thailand (590) – 860 Jan Vondruška Czech Rep.
Don Wu Taiwan 721.9-763.5 Weifan Wang China
Khả Lê Minh Vietnam 558-932.8 Hu Yuxuan Hu China
Seungjae Kwak Korea, South 776.3-719 Đức Chiến Nguyễn Vietnam

Sudoku Big Cup 2026 Round 2

Direct Route to Semis
Hideaki Jo Japan 780.7-553 Don Wu Taiwan
Zbigniew Zarzycki Poland 740.5-719 Siyuan Luo China
Ken Endo Japan 920-1035.2 Letian Ming China
Seungjae Kwak Korea, South 797.5-895.2 Kota Morinishi Japan
Đức Chiến Nguyễn Vietnam 787.5-1061.3 Cheran Sun China
Khả Lê Minh Vietnam 678-1052 Tantan Dai China
Vincent Bertrand Belgium 905.2-0 Hu Yuxuan Hu China
Suzhe QIU China 1054.3-651 Dominik Bezkosty Poland
Indirect Route to Semis
Le Duo Yang China 0-0 Zhenxin Gao China
Takuya Sugimoto Japan 772-984.3 Jan Vondruška Czech Rep.
Sumate Juariyamark Thailand 741.2-912.2 Can Erturan Turkey
Tawan Sunathvanichkul Thailand 678-449 Zhichao Li China
Weifan Wang China 884.2-416 Jordyn Hyde USA
Timothy Doyle France 735.8-904 Prasanna Seshadri India
Jakub Ondroušek Czech Rep. 889.7-857 Rintaro Matsumoto Japan
Vita Gamber Germany 0-642 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