Taicang 2012 — Knockout
📅 25 July - 4 August 2012 · Taicang, China
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Knockout bracket↑ top
Tournament standings — final placement↑ top
Knockout event — places follow from the bracket: shared places (e.g. 5-8) are teams eliminated in the same phase; an unplayed decider leaves the place shared. Click a team for its players below.
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 (3 of 3): R1 R2 R3. Columns QF·1… = each player's Butler total in that stanza (each knockout phase is played in segments); 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 | 🇳🇱 E.Wackwitz | +0.68 |
| 1 | 🇳🇱 C.Westerbeek | +0.68 |
| 3 | 🇨🇳 Y.Chen | +0.54 |
| 3 | 🇨🇳 Y.Jiang | +0.54 |
| 5 | 🇳🇱 A.Helmich | +0.48 |
| 5 | 🇳🇱 G.Hop | +0.48 |
| 7 | 🇮🇱 D.Padon | +0.28 |
| 8 | 🇳🇱 B.Van Den Bos | +0.25 |
| 8 | 🇳🇱 J.Van Lankveld | +0.25 |
| 10 | 🇦🇺 P.Hollands | +0.23 |
| 10 | 🇦🇺 J.Mill | +0.23 |
| 12 | 🇮🇱 M.Meyouhas | +0.22 |
| # | Player | on tgt |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇳🇱 B.Van Den Bos | 96.3% |
| 2 | 🇳🇱 A.Helmich | 84.1% |
| 3 | 🇳🇱 C.Westerbeek | 83.9% |
| 4 | 🇮🇱 D.Padon | 83.0% |
| 5 | 🇳🇱 G.Hop | 82.6% |
| 6 | 🇦🇺 A.Hung | 81.6% |
| 7 | 🇨🇳 Y.Chen | 81.0% |
| 8 | 🇮🇱 L.Fisher | 78.0% |
| 9 | 🇮🇱 M.Meyouhas | 77.8% |
| 10 | 🇦🇺 P.Hollands | 77.8% |
| 11 | 🇳🇱 E.Wackwitz | 76.5% |
| 12 | 🇨🇳 Y.Shao | 76.5% |
| # | Player | on tgt |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇦🇺 P.Hollands | 84.2% |
| 2 | 🇦🇺 A.Hung | 83.9% |
| 3 | 🇳🇱 A.Helmich | 83.8% |
| 4 | 🇮🇱 G.Gerstner | 78.9% |
| 5 | 🇦🇺 N.Edgtton | 76.5% |
| 6 | 🇳🇱 B.Van Den Bos | 74.2% |
| 7 | 🇨🇳 Y.Jiang | 73.8% |
| 8 | 🇨🇳 J.Hu | 73.2% |
| 9 | 🇨🇳 Y.Chen | 72.7% |
| 10 | 🇳🇱 E.Wackwitz | 72.0% |
| 11 | 🇳🇱 J.Van Lankveld | 71.4% |
| 12 | 🇮🇱 L.Fisher | 70.0% |
| # | Player | on tgt |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇮🇱 G.Gerstner | 94.8% |
| 2 | 🇮🇱 L.Fisher | 94.1% |
| 3 | 🇨🇳 Y.Chen | 90.5% |
| 3 | 🇨🇳 Y.Jiang | 90.5% |
| 5 | 🇳🇱 B.Van Den Bos | 90.4% |
| 5 | 🇳🇱 J.Van Lankveld | 90.4% |
| 7 | 🇦🇺 N.Edgtton | 89.7% |
| 7 | 🇦🇺 A.Hung | 89.7% |
| 9 | 🇦🇺 P.Hollands | 87.7% |
| 9 | 🇦🇺 J.Mill | 87.7% |
| 11 | 🇳🇱 E.Wackwitz | 87.5% |
| 11 | 🇳🇱 C.Westerbeek | 87.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semifinal · Bd 56 | 4 | 31.3 | 4♠ -150 🇨🇳 CHINA (+12.0) | 6NTx +2600 🇳🇱 NETHERLANDS (+19.3) |
| Semifinal · Bd 45 | 4 | 28.3 | 6♠ +200 🇮🇱 ISRAEL (+14.3) | 6♠ +1430 🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA (+14.0) |
| Quarterfinal · Bd 46 | 8 | 28.0 | 2♥ +200 🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA (+8.9) | 2♣xx +2200 🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA (+19.1) |
| Semifinal · Bd 46 | 4 | 26.0 | 6♠x +1660 🇮🇱 ISRAEL (+18.0) | 6♠ +200 🇮🇱 ISRAEL (+8.0) |
| Semifinal · Bd 47 | 4 | 25.7 | 6♥ +1430 🇳🇱 NETHERLANDS (+15.7) | 7♥ +200 🇳🇱 NETHERLANDS (+10.0) |
| Semifinal · Bd 21 | 4 | 25.6 | 6♥ +1460 🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA (+13.3) | 4♠x -200 🇮🇱 ISRAEL (+12.3) |
| Quarterfinal · Bd 37 | 8 | 25.5 | 7♠x +200 🇨🇳 CHINA (+10.6) | 6♥ +1430 🇺🇸 USA1 (+14.9) |
| Quarterfinal · Bd 44 | 8 | 25.5 | 3NTx +950 🇨🇳 CHINA (+13.1) | 3NT +500 🇨🇳 CHINA (+12.4) |
| Quarterfinal · Bd 35 | 8 | 24.4 | 2♠x +670 🇮🇱 ISRAEL (+12.7) | 3NT +600 🇳🇱 NETHERLANDS (+11.7) |
| Quarterfinal · Bd 21 | 8 | 23.8 | 3NTx +1100 🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA (+13.1) | 3NT +400 🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA (+10.7) |
| Quarterfinal · Bd 48 | 8 | 23.6 | 4♥x +500 🇮🇱 ISRAEL (+11.9) | 3NT +630 🇫🇷 FRANCE (+11.7) |
| Semifinal · Bd 17 | 4 | 23.4 | 4♠x +500 🇮🇱 ISRAEL (+9.7) | 3NT +600 🇳🇱 NETHERLANDS (+13.7) |
| Quarterfinal · Bd 6 | 8 | 22.9 | 6♥ +1010 🇳🇱 NETHERLANDS (+10.0) | 7♠ +100 🇨🇳 CHINA (+12.9) |
| Final · Bd 36 | 4 | 22.3 | 2♠x +670 🇮🇱 ISRAEL (+16.0) | 3NT +690 🇨🇳 CHINA (+6.3) |