One week into the 2026 SCOOP, and some of the biggest names in the series are already pulling away from the pack.
‘FAL1st’ (pronounced ‘Faust’) was one of the four Big Hitters recommended by our Pick 3 scout, Howard Swains. 99 managers backed the pick – and ‘FAL1st’ has already rocketed to the top of the Medium, High, and Overall SCOOP leaderboards.
Teams with ‘FAL1st’ in them are also crowding the top of the Pick 3 leaderboard.
Brazil's Thiago 'tgrigoletti' Grigoletti was also the Scout’s top pick from The Field – and he’s currently 13th on the overall leaderboard, with cashes across all three buy-in tiers.
Plenty of teams drafted both of them and are riding high on the Pick 3 leaderboard. The third pick is what separates Team Fitz from the rest of the pack. Vlad ‘dariepoker’ Darie has scored 40 more points than another hugely popular draft pick, 'zidix.' So popular, in fact, that six teams just behind Team Fitz have exactly the same lineup.
Current Pick 3 leader: Team Fitz
- FAL1st: 1,560
- tgrigoletti: 440
- dariepoker: 435
Ironically, the Scout decided against ‘FAL1st’ as his big hitter and went the other way with ‘king153246’. The Albanian pro has scored heavily – just not as much as ‘FAL1st’ so far, despite already winning three SCOOP titles during the series’ opening stretch. He is currently at the top of the Low leaderboard.
As far as titles go, Renan ‘Internett93o’ Bruschi is leading the way with four – and several other players have also won multiple SCOOP titles.
SCOOP 2026 multiple champions
- 4 – Renan ‘Internett93o’ Bruschi
- 3 – ‘king153246’
- 2 – Andre ‘Premove’ Skvortsov, Joao ‘Jbiancolini’ Biancolini, Alexandre ‘ReWARds84’ Reard, ‘Eimantasa’
Another Big Hitter recommended by the Scout hasn’t performed as well in the opening week. Denis ‘aDrENalin710’ Strebkov has only scored 95 points to date, but he’s on the board at least – and playing.
And with the three SCOOP Main Events kicking off the business end of the series on March 22, there’s still plenty of time to get back in the race for the 2026 Irish Open package.
