Brennan Kamerman Stands Alone at 9-0 After Day 1 of the Turin Special Championships
One player is left undefeated after nine rounds in Turin's 2,033-player Masters field.
After nine rounds on Day 1 of the 2026 Turin Special Championships, the Netherlands' Brennan Kamerman is the only Masters player left without a loss, sitting at 9-0 in a field of 2,033. It is not his first deep run of the season, though. Kamerman finished 14th at the Prague Regional in April.
Just two players trail at 8-0-1, Italy's Adriano D'Angelo and the UK's Toby Clark, followed by a wall of ten players at 8-1. The home crowd has plenty to cheer for: nine of the current top 16 are Italian, led by Lorenzo Nebuloni and Valerio Puccio.
The Day 1 metagame breakdown from Play Pokémon has Dragapult way out front at 29% of the field, with Ogerpon a distant second at 7%. Day 2 is where we find out if that popularity converts.
At the moment, we don't have any of the decklists or details about them, so beyond any decks shown in stream feature matches, what the top tables are actually playing stays under wraps until later in the weekend.
Day 2 brings four more rounds of Swiss before the cut to Top 8. Kamerman has the cleanest path, but with a dozen players within a single match of the lead, nothing is certain. Until tomorrow!
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