The 64 participants initially competed against each other in a double knockout system . 32 players qualified for the final round, which was played in the knockout system .
In the final, the 15-year-old Russian Nikita Liwada met the 8-year-old Ukrainian Oleksandr Palamar . While Liwada only took part in a world championship for the second time after the Free Pyramid World Cup in 2010 and made it past the second round for the first time, the 2007 world champion was already in a World Cup final for the fourth time. Despite the lack of experience, Liwada started the match better and secured the first two games. However, the ex-world champion managed to equalize with two clearly won racks. The Russian then took the lead again, which Palamar immediately equalized. After the following two games, in which Palamar scored only one point, Liwada was only one game before the world title. The ninth game was highly competitive and was not decided until the fifteenth ball. Liwada got the point and became the first Russian world champion in the combined pyramid discipline. At the age of 15, 8 months and 25 days, he was the youngest ever World Cup winner in Russian billiards . He undercut the three-year-old record of the Kazakh Älichan Qaranejew by almost two years.