Johan Nuyts 29th at the World Championship 2026
The 20th Carcassonne World Championship was played on Saturday 24 October in Herne, with a record field of 54 players from all over the world. Johan Nuyts (obiwonder), the Belgian champion 2026, represented Belgium.
Obiwonder finished 29th after six Swiss rounds with three wins. He lost his opening game to Martijn Krook from the Netherlands by four points (76–80), beat Yat Cheng Tung (Sunny369) from Hong Kong 120–108, lost 93–133 to Martin Mojzis (Moya88), beat Kristjan Sešek from Slovenia 108–76, lost 100–115 to Yuji Yamamoto (utime) from Japan and closed the day with a 106–98 win against Xiaotong Zhang (meeme9) from China.
Nazarii Pavliuk (nazario77) from Ukraine is the new world champion: he beat Pavel Hudec (posij118) from the Czech Republic in the final. Vladimir Kovalev (Someone_you_know) took third place against Hogne Jorgensen (hognej) from Norway.
