Tournament recap
🇩🇪Hamburg Open 2026
Who the crowd backed, who let them down, and how the field scored.
The players
🇫🇷 U. Humbert
Their wins paid out 100 points across every bracket in the draw.
🇺🇸 B. Shelton
Named in 8 picks, across 2 brackets.
Counts every round, so deep runs inflate this.
How the field did
36%
20 of 55 picks called correctly.
18 of 28
matches went against the crowd's majority pick — 64% of the tournament.
Final
0% accuracy, against a 0% median across all rounds.
10 of 28
A bracket built from the majority pick in every match would have beaten 50% of the 2 real entries.
The crowd's bracket is complete; most real entries are not.
Accuracy falls with every round by design — 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
🇵🇪 I. Buse def. 🇺🇸 T. Paul
Final — 0 of the 2 brackets that picked this match called it.
The people
0
of the 2 brackets that named a champion had I. Buse winning the title.
bennyto
8 of 16 correct in R32.