Tournament recap

πŸ‡·πŸ‡΄Bucharest Open 2026

Who the crowd backed, who let them down, and how the field scored.

Brackets
76
Matches
24
Picks made
552
Points awarded
3,563

The players

Points machine

πŸ‡¦πŸ‡· M. Navone

Their wins paid out 1,777 points across every bracket in the draw.

Most picked

πŸ‡¦πŸ‡· S. Baez

Named in 47 picks, across 44 brackets.

Counts every round, so deep runs inflate this.

How the field did

Community accuracy

51%

281 of 552 picks called correctly.

Chalk vs chaos

11 of 22

matches went against the crowd's majority pick β€” 50% of the tournament.

Hardest round

Semifinal

25% accuracy, against a 38% median across all rounds.

Wisdom of the crowd

11 of 22

A bracket built from the majority pick in every match would have beaten 99% of the 76 real entries.

The crowd's bracket is complete; most real entries are not.

RoundPicksCorrectAccuracy
R3252527252%
R1613538%
Quarterfinal8225%
Semifinal4125%
Final2150%

Accuracy falls with every round by design β€” calling a quarterfinal means having had the winner survive three earlier matches first. Compare a round against the same round elsewhere, not against the one before it.

The matches that did the damage

Nobody saw it coming

πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Έ D. Merida Aguilar def. πŸ‡­πŸ‡Ί F. Marozsan

Semifinal β€” 0 of the 2 brackets that picked this match called it.

The people

Podium
  1. πŸ₯‡matiducos1,690
  2. πŸ₯ˆcharliedeuce3242
  3. πŸ₯‰emersonbracket42
Called the champion

1

of the 2 brackets that named a champion had M. Navone winning the title.

Round of the tournament

charliedeuce32

6 of 9 correct in R32.