Herning 2025 — Venice Cup
📅 20 - 31 August 2025 · Herning, Denmark
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Tournament standings — teams (VP)↑ top
Cumulative Victory Points. The 8 highlighted teams (marked ▶) advanced to the Quarterfinal (the knockout stage). Click a team for its round-by-round results and players below; click a round’s VP to open that match.
Cross-table — who played whom↑ top
Each cell is the row team’s VP against the column team (columns numbered by rank; # place, Σ total VP). Hover a cell to highlight both teams and their two head-to-head results; click a score for that match’s protocol.
1 NETHERLANDS · 2 CHINA · 3 POLAND · 4 TURKIYE · 5 DENMARK · 6 USA2 · 7 FRANCE · 8 AUSTRALIA · 9 ITALY · 10 NORWAY · 11 ENGLAND · 12 USA1 · 13 HUNGARY · 14 NEW ZEALAND · 15 ARGENTINA · 16 INDIA · 17 SWEDEN · 18 HONG KONG CHINA · 19 CANADA · 20 BELGIUM · 21 TUNISIA · 22 SOUTH AFRICA · 23 BRAZIL · 24 PAKISTAN
Cumulative Butler by cross-IMPs. Each round's per-board Butler = mean cross-IMP vs that round's full field (raw / (N−1)), rounded to 0.1. Cumulative = sum of a player's per-board Butler over ALL played rounds ÷ total boards played, rounded to 0.01.
Rounds included so far (23 of 23): R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 R13 R14 R15 R16 R17 R18 R19 R20 R21 R22 R23. Columns R1… = each player's Butler total in that round's match (hover a cell for its avg/board); they sum to Total.
Cumulative Butler standings — all players↑ top
Player statistics — leaders↑ top
Top 12 in each metric — or, with a team picked as ★ My team, that team’s players. Open the full player-statistics page for every player, sortable by any column — including an opponent-adjusted (strength-of-schedule) Butler. Double-dummy is idealised — the true best play needs all four hands — so read these as tendencies, not verdicts.
| # | Player | vs par |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇨🇳 X.Yuan | +1.43 |
| 1 | 🇨🇳 X.Zuo | +1.43 |
| 3 | 🏴 F.Brown | +1.22 |
| 3 | 🏴 H.Erichsen | +1.22 |
| 5 | 🇹🇷 I.Ozbay | +1.21 |
| 5 | 🇹🇷 D.Yavas | +1.21 |
| 7 | 🇩🇰 L.Bilde | +1.20 |
| 7 | 🇩🇰 H.Rasmussen | +1.20 |
| 9 | 🇭🇰 P.Chan | +1.15 |
| 9 | 🇭🇰 S.Tung | +1.15 |
| 11 | 🇺🇸 J.Meyers | +1.08 |
| 11 | 🇺🇸 K.Sanborn | +1.08 |
| # | Player | on tgt |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇺🇸 S.Shi | 92.3% |
| 2 | 🇨🇦 W.Chen | 92.2% |
| 3 | 🇹🇷 D.Yavas | 92.2% |
| 4 | 🇩🇰 H.Rasmussen | 91.1% |
| 5 | 🇸🇪 M.Johansson | 90.6% |
| 6 | 🇧🇪 C.Vandenbossche | 89.8% |
| 7 | 🇨🇳 K.Guo | 89.7% |
| 8 | 🇹🇷 A.Acar | 89.6% |
| 9 | 🇫🇷 M.Kurek Beaulieu | 89.5% |
| 10 | 🇭🇰 S.Tung | 89.2% |
| 11 | 🇨🇦 Y.Chen | 89.1% |
| 12 | 🏴 S.Brock | 88.4% |
| # | Player | on tgt |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇺🇸 K.Sanborn | 86.8% |
| 2 | 🇨🇳 X.Zuo | 86.7% |
| 3 | 🇩🇰 L.Bilde | 85.7% |
| 4 | 🇸🇪 Y.Johansson | 85.7% |
| 5 | 🇺🇸 S.Shi | 85.0% |
| 6 | 🇳🇴 M.Harding | 85.0% |
| 7 | 🇨🇳 J.Wang | 84.0% |
| 8 | 🇳🇿 A.Boughey | 83.7% |
| 9 | 🇵🇱 A.Sarniak | 83.6% |
| 10 | 🇫🇷 M.Kurek Beaulieu | 82.7% |
| 11 | 🇺🇸 D.Rosenberg | 82.6% |
| 12 | 🇭🇺 E.Tichy | 82.4% |
| # | Player | on tgt |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇦🇺 T.Demarco | 92.4% |
| 1 | 🇦🇺 S.Lusk | 92.4% |
| 3 | 🇳🇴 A.Fuglestad | 92.1% |
| 3 | 🇳🇴 M.Harding | 92.1% |
| 5 | 🇺🇸 A.Lin | 91.7% |
| 5 | 🇺🇸 D.Rosenberg | 91.7% |
| 7 | 🇺🇸 J.Meyers | 91.5% |
| 7 | 🇺🇸 K.Sanborn | 91.5% |
| 9 | 🇮🇳 P.Balasubramanian | 91.2% |
| 9 | 🇮🇳 B.Kohli | 91.2% |
| 11 | 🇮🇹 C.Golin | 90.3% |
| 11 | 🇮🇹 C.Pomares Y De Morant | 90.3% |
| # | Player | active |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇩🇰 E.Rosthoej | 53.8% |
| 2 | 🇩🇰 J.Sigsgaard | 53.6% |
| 3 | 🇦🇺 E.Jacob | 50.6% |
| 4 | 🇳🇴 L.Grude | 50.2% |
| 5 | 🇮🇹 S.Paoluzi | 50.1% |
| 6 | 🇮🇹 M.Chavarria | 49.9% |
| 7 | 🇹🇷 A.Acar | 49.6% |
| 8 | 🇳🇴 B.Oigarden | 49.2% |
| 9 | 🇺🇸 M.Zur-Campanile | 49.1% |
| 10 | 🇦🇺 R.Cooper | 49.0% |
| 11 | 🇺🇸 J.Seamon-Molson | 48.9% |
| 12 | 🇳🇱 M.Verbeek | 48.9% |
Biggest swings — the wildest boards↑ top
Same deal, opposite fortunes: boards where the field’s cross-IMP Butler split the widest. Swing = the best NS result’s Butler minus the best EW result’s, in IMPs; the two columns show those poles (contract, score and Butler). Click a board for its full record.
| Board | Tables | Swing | Best for NS | Best for EW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Round 4 · Bd 22 | 24 | 29.3 | 5♥x +1100 🇹🇳 TUNISIA (+14.6) | 4♠x +1100 🇭🇺 HUNGARY (+14.7) |
| Round 1 · Bd 3 | 24 | 27.6 | 4NT +400 🇫🇷 FRANCE (+14.0) | 6♦x +1540 🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA (+13.6) |
| Round 10 · Bd 27 | 24 | 26.8 | 6♣x +800 🏴 ENGLAND (+11.1) | 5♥x +1100 🇺🇸 USA2 (+15.7) |
| Round 23 · Bd 8 | 24 | 26.3 | 4♠ +200 🇺🇸 USA2 (+12.2) | 5♣x +1400 🇹🇳 TUNISIA (+14.1) |
| Round 21 · Bd 3 | 24 | 26.1 | 3NTx +800 🇨🇳 CHINA (+12.2) | 2♥x +870 🇵🇱 POLAND (+13.9) |
| Round 19 · Bd 10 | 24 | 26.0 | 6♠ +100 🇮🇳 INDIA (+13.7) | 6♠x +1660 🇮🇹 ITALY (+12.3) |
| Round 2 · Bd 20 | 24 | 25.6 | 3♦x +870 🇦🇷 ARGENTINA (+10.8) | 3♣x +870 🇩🇰 DENMARK (+14.8) |
| Round 8 · Bd 21 | 24 | 25.5 | 6♠ +1430 🇵🇱 POLAND (+13.5) | 6♠ +100 🇺🇸 USA2 (+12.0) |
| Round 15 · Bd 2 | 24 | 25.5 | 5♣x +1400 🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA (+14.7) | 3NT +300 🇹🇷 TURKIYE (+10.8) |
| Round 18 · Bd 27 | 24 | 25.4 | 6♥x +1210 🇮🇹 ITALY (+14.3) | 4♠ +420 🏴 ENGLAND (+11.1) |
| Round 5 · Bd 1 | 24 | 24.5 | 6♠x +1100 🇨🇳 CHINA (+13.3) | 4♥ +420 🇨🇦 CANADA (+11.2) |
| Round 9 · Bd 10 | 24 | 24.3 | 4♠x +800 🇨🇳 CHINA (+10.6) | 5♦x +750 🇧🇪 BELGIUM (+13.7) |
| Round 15 · Bd 1 | 24 | 24.2 | 4♥ +50 🇨🇦 CANADA (+10.4) | 4♠x +1400 🇳🇿 NEW ZEALAND (+13.8) |
| Round 6 · Bd 17 | 24 | 24.0 | 3NTx +800 🇳🇱 NETHERLANDS (+13.6) | 4♥x +590 🇳🇱 NETHERLANDS (+10.4) |