Ultimate Pool USA Grand Finals: Day-8 Results Snapshot
All four of Sunday's open titles are settled at Harrah's Cherokee — ending with Tom Cousins beating Tyler Styer 6-5 in the National Open final to close out the 2026 Grand Finals.
The biggest week in American league pool came down to its final match. Three of Sunday's title matches are in the books — Ashley Benoit & Chris Melling won the Mixed Pairs, Margaret Styer took the National Women's Open and Cohen Bradford the Junior Open — and the last of them all, the 512-player National Open, has since gone to Tom Cousins, who beat Tyler Styer 6-5 in the final. With that, the Grand Finals are done.
Mixed Pairs: Benoit & Melling take the title at last
The final postponed twice across the week was finally played on Saturday night, and Ashley Benoit & Chris Melling won it 6-2 over Avah Weems & Oscar Dominguez — the bracket closing the match out at 21:01 UTC.
Both champions had waited through a long week for the trophy. Benoit lost Monday's Women's Shootout final to Margaret Styer before this title; Melling, runner-up in Friday's National Pairs with Shane Van Boening, leaves Cherokee a champion after all. The semi-finals had gone Benoit & Melling 6-1 over Tyler Styer & Margarita Fefilova Styer — the National Pairs champions — and Weems & Dominguez 6-5 in the hill-hill decider over Van Boening & Sofia Mast.
Scores per the official DigitalPool bracket; the final's completion time is the bracket's own record.
National Women's Open: a third title of the week for Margaret Styer
Margaret Styer — the Fefilova-Styer of the earlier snapshots — won the 128-player National Women's Open, beating Skylar Hess 6-1 in a final the bracket closed at 03:01 UTC. It is her third title of the week: the Women's Shootout on Monday, the National Pairs with husband Tyler on Friday, and now the Women's Open.
| Round | Winner | Score | Loser |
|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-final | Skylar Hess | 6-2 | Rachel Lang |
| Semi-final | Margaret Styer | 6-1 | Sofia Mast |
| Final | Margaret Styer | 6-1 | Skylar Hess |
In the parallel Second Chance bracket, Tarah Connor beat Savannah Hall 4-3 in its final.
Scores per the official DigitalPool bracket at the cutoff.
National Open: Tom Cousins closes out the week
The week's biggest field — 512 players chasing $20,000 — was still deciding its champion when this snapshot was taken, with the Main Event final between Tyler Styer and Tom Cousins level at 5-5. The wait ended a little over an hour later: Cousins won the final 6-5, the official bracket closing the match at 06:16 UTC — the last result of the Grand Finals.
Styer reached the final by beating Shane Van Boening 7-5 in the quarter-finals and Gerson Martinez Boza 7-5 in the semis; Cousins came through Jeremy Seaman 7-5 and Joe Prince 7-3. It was Cousins' second final of the week after his 5-4 loss to Oscar Dominguez in the National Shootout — this time he leaves Cherokee a champion. For Styer, the title would have completed a remarkable family week alongside his wife's three crowns.
| Round | Winner | Score | Loser |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quarter-final | Tyler Styer | 7-5 | Shane Van Boening |
| Quarter-final | Gerson Martinez Boza | 7-6 | Skyler Woodward |
| Quarter-final | Tom Cousins | 7-5 | Jeremy Seaman |
| Quarter-final | Joe Prince | 7-3 | Leon Contreras |
| Semi-final | Tyler Styer | 7-5 | Gerson Martinez Boza |
| Semi-final | Tom Cousins | 7-3 | Joe Prince |
| Final | Tom Cousins | 6-5 | Tyler Styer |
The Second Chance bracket went to Sean King, who beat Justin Stock 5-2 in its final.
Scores per the official DigitalPool bracket at the cutoff. Updated 06:30 UTC — National Open final result added; the bracket closed the match at 06:16 UTC.
National Junior Open: Bradford 5-4 Axe
Cohen Bradford won the National Junior Open, edging Austin Axe 5-4 in a final the bracket closed at 00:32 UTC. Bradford had beaten Jordan Helfrey 5-2 in the semi-final, with Axe a 5-2 winner over Brayden Splawn. Johnny Hammontree took the Second Chance final 5-4 over Isaac Garza.
Scores per the official DigitalPool bracket; the bracket records Bradford as champion.
The week closes
The week at Harrah's Cherokee ends here: six days, dozens of league and open champions crowned, the richest team prize in league pool history paid out to Rack Of Ages on Saturday night — and Tom Cousins' 6-5 win over Tyler Styer to close the 512-player National Open, the last match of the 2026 Grand Finals. Saturday's play is in the day-7 snapshot.
