Esports World Cup 2026: All Results
- Sagar Mankar
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The Esports World Cup 2026 officially closed out on Sunday, bringing seven weeks of competition in Paris to an end.
This was the third edition of the tournament and the first one held outside Riyadh.
There were 25 tournaments across 24 games. More than 2,000 players from over 200 clubs and 100-plus countries showed up to compete.
The prize pool hit a record $75 million, split between $39 million across individual game events, $30 million for the Club Championship, and the rest spread out through qualifiers, MVP bonuses, and other extras.
Table of Contents:
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves – DarkAngel (Natus Vincere)
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (Women's/MWI) – Team Vitality Ladies
EA Sports FC 26 – RvPLegend (Hyperspirit)
Chess – Magnus Carlsen (Team Liquid)
Here is a full breakdown of every tournament winner from this year's Esports World Cup, week by week.
Fatal Fury: DarkAngel
Natus Vincere's Luis Guadalupe "DarkAngel" Castillo Gomez was the first champion crowned at this year's Esports World Cup.
He beat Japan's Kenta "mi2ha4" Ichihara 5-1 in the FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves final, a dominant showing considering he was the only returning top 8 player from last year's event.
DarkAngel is widely regarded as one of the best Terry Bogard players in the world, and he showed it, jumping out to an early 3-0 lead in the bo9 final.
Mi2ha4 clawed one set back, but DarkAngel closed it out with two straight wins. He capped off the moment by placing his championship key into the tournament trophy.
DarkAngel’s grand finals win earns them $250,000 from the $1 million prize pool and secures an automatic spot in the SNK World Championship 2026 finals.
VALORANT: 100 Thieves
100 Thieves ended a six-year wait for their first S-Tier international title, defeating NRG 3-1 in the grand final and taking home $600,000 in prize money.
Both teams had earned their spot through the Americas qualifier back in May, and both fought through tough group stages to even reach the playoffs
In the final,100 Thieves dominated the first two maps, Breeze and Sunset. NRG showed up in game three, cruising through Haven to keep their hopes alive. It looked like NRG might force a fifth map too, building a 9-3 lead in the fourth map, Ascent. But 100 Thieves caught fire in the second half, ripping off a 7-1 run to tie things up, then trading rounds all the way to overtime before closing it out 14-12 for the title.
100 Thieves’ Cryocells was without a doubt the standout player of the match, posting an impressive 1.22 average rating across the series. His performance earned him MVP honors and an extra $25,000 on top of the tournament prize money.
Apex Legends: UNLIMIT
Japanese trio UNLIMIT, made up of Xtsuvi, Yulariman, and Peace, won the ALGS Split 1 Playoffs and took home $600,000 in prize money.
The team scraped into the Finals after finishing 14th in the group stage, just good enough to skip the Survivor Stage entirely. Under the match point format, where the first team to 50 points wins outright, UNLIMIT started slow but steadily built momentum, eventually crossing the finish line in Game 10.
Dota 2: PARIVISION
PARIVISION defeated BetBoom Team 3-1 in a near-flawless series, taking home $750,000.
In the finale, BetBoom actually won the opening map, but PARIVISION responded by evening the series and then running away with the next two maps, closing out the final one in just under 37 minutes.
Carry Alan "Satanic" Gallyamov walked away with match MVP honors after an average K/D/A of 9.4/1.9/8.5 across the series.
League of Legends: DPlus KIA
DPlus KIA swept Karmine Corp 3-0 to win their first international title since 2020. Along the way, they knocked out Bilibili Gaming in the biggest upset of the tournament, then ended Gen.G's shot at a third straight EWC title in the semifinals.
Meanwhile, Karmine Corp had a fairytale run of their own, upsetting AG.AL in the quarterfinals and eliminating T1 in front of a roaring home crowd before falling short in the final.
Smash was named Grand Final MVP and picked up a $25,000 bonus for his performance.
Free Fire: LYON
Team LYON out of Latin America topped AG.AL 155-122 in the Grand Finals to claim the Free Fire title and a direct spot at the FFWS Global Finals this November.
The Grand Finals used the Champion Rush format, where teams needed to cross 90 points before the first squad to grab a Booyah would be crowned. LYON put together a record-breaking 45-point final with 33 kills in a single match to seal it.
Rusher Benjamín Pérez, known as gamezk1ng, picked up an extra $25,000 as tournament MVP.
Mobile Legends Women's: Vitality
Team Vitality successfully defended its championship title against rival NAVI PH in the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Women’s International (MWI) at the Esports World Cup 2026.
NAVI PH, composed of former Omega Empress talents, had their sights set on reclaiming their MWI 2024 glory but fell short with a 4:2 loss.
The win earned Team Vitality $150,000 in prize money, while Viorelle “Vival” Chen claimed the SONY MVP award and an extra $25,000.
EA Sports FC 26: RvPLegend
Razvan "RvPLegend" Puiu of HYPERSPIRIT edged out Levy "levyfinn" Rieck 6-5 in a thrilling match, snagging the $250,000 USD top prize.
He entered the knockouts ranked just 11th out of the group stage but beat three of the best-performing players on his way to the trophy, taking down Umut Gultekin, Gustavo Ferraz, Alihan Hadzhi, and Nassim Dahman before facing Rieck in the final.
The win jumped him from 30th in the world rankings all the way to 4th, and it also marked the last major title of the FC 26 competitive cycle before the scene shifts to FC 27.
PUBG: Battlegrounds: Virtus.pro
Virtus.pro claimed the PUBG: Battlegrounds title with $660,000 at stake, wrapping up the Grand Finals with 159 points, an easy 33-point lead over second-place The Vicious.
24 teams started the competition fighting for a $2.025 million pool, with the top 16 advancing out of a 3-group round-robin stage.
Virtus.pro built their lead steadily across the weekend, taking top spot in Game 4 and Game 6 on the first day before a quiet Saturday still ended with a bang thanks to a Game 12 win. That cushion let them cruise through Sunday to seal the title.
Croatia's Nino "NIXZYEE" Mikec took home MVP honors and a $25,000 bonus.
Teamfight Tactics: Team Vision
Team Vision became the first squad to win a Teamfight Tactics Grand Final at EWC without dropping a single game, sweeping Aurora Gaming 3-0.
Both teams had already knocked out last year's finalists, Virtus.pro and Weibo Gaming, just to reach the Grand Finals, so this was no easy run.
Captain Yan "Flancy" Lingyu set the tone by clutching out Game 1 with a powerful Level 10 board, and Team Vision's coordinated play in the 4v4 format kept denying Aurora their ideal compositions from there on out.
Flancy was named MVP for the series, his first S-Tier championship after long being known in the community as the Uncrowned King.
Mobile Legends Men's: Team Spirit
Team Spirit edged out Yangon Galacticos 4-3 in a grand final, taking home $1,000,000 prize money.
EXP laner Kid Bomba earned MVP for the decisive series and a $25,000 bonus alongside it.
Overwatch 2: ZETA DIVISION
ZETA DIVISION beat Twisted Minds 4-2 to win the OWCS Midseason Championship and the $1,000,000 top prize.
Kim "shu" Jin-seo picked up the Sony MVP award and an extra $25,000 bonus.
Call of Duty Warzone: G2
G2 Esports won the Warzone Resurgence Series, the first-ever edition of the event, taking home $250,000.
The win was extra sweet given the roster's history, since this same trio finished a rough 17th place at last year's Esports World Cup.
Anthony "Anziety" Moran took home MVP honors and a $25,000 bonus.
Street Fighter 6: Craime
15-year-old Jaime "Craime" Bustos beat Japan's Hibiki 5-2 to become the youngest-ever Esports World Cup champion.
He fought his way through a bracket that included EVO 2026 winner Saul "MenaRD" Mena in the quarterfinals and EVO Japan 2026 winner Eisuke "Yamaguchi" Yamaguchi in the semifinals, only dropping a single game in the group stage the entire way.
His win earned him $250,000, a spot at Capcom Cup 13, and 1,000 Club points that pushed Team Falcons.
Honor of Kings: Kuaishou Gaming
Kuaishou Gaming pulled off a thrilling 7-game grand final against fellow Chinese team AG.AL, sealing the win 4-3 to grab their first international championship. The victory earned them $600,000 from a total prize pool of $3,025,000.
AG.AL had entered the event as defending champions from last year, so this was a genuine changing of the guard within Chinese Honor of Kings.
KSG's JuHao was named MVP and took home an extra $25,000 bonus for his consistency across all seven drafts of the deciding series.
TEKKEN 8: M. Zubair
AG.AL's Khawaja "M. Zubair" Muhammad Zubair went from the Last Chance Qualifier to champion, beating Yoon "LowHigh" Sun-woong 5-0 in the final.
He had emerged from a 444 player LCQ field to even make the main event, and along the way he beat eight time EVO winner Arslan Ash twice, once in groups and again in a tight 5-4 semifinal.
For the win, Zubair earned $250,000 plus the $50,000 Jafonso Award. He credited his training back home. "I worked really hard, and I had full faith that I can win this. And with my dedication, and my practice, I think I was able to achieve this," he said. "I have been practising a lot in Pakistan. There's a specific friend of mine who actually played with me, and he also prepared me. I'm really grateful to him."
Call of Duty Black Ops 7: OpTic
OpTic Gaming defeated Team Heretics to claim the final Black Ops 7 EWC title before the competition moves to Modern Warfare 4, pocketing $600,000 from the $1.8 million prize pool.
This marks OpTic’s second consecutive Esports World Cup victory.
Team Heretics secured second place with $320,000, 100 Thieves took third, and Team Falcons completed the top four.
Anthony “Shotzzy” Cuevas-Castro’s stellar play and leadership throughout the week earned him the MVP award and an extra $25,000, making him a back-to-back EWC champion and MVP, further cementing his legacy as one of Call of Duty’s all-time greats.
PUBG Mobile: S2G
S2G Esports survived a chaotic final day to win the PUBG Mobile World Cup with 154 points, just five ahead of NS RedForce, with Aurora Gaming close behind in third at 146.
S2G had several chances to seal the title outright through the Smash Rule but could not land the required win. Their fate ended up depending on their rivals stumbling instead, and eventually NS RedForce, Aurora Gaming, and eArena were all eliminated before they could catch up, confirming S2G as champions even though Tianba actually won the final match of the day.
Zhang "Qzz" Qingbo of Tianba was crowned the tournament’s SONY MVP, tallying 35 eliminations and 32 knockdowns, and taking home $25,000 in prize money.
Veteran player HamsiG now has won both PMGC and PMWC titles across his career.
Rocket League: Team Falcons
Team Falcons swept Spacestation Gaming 4-0 for their first EWC Rocket League title, taking home $400,000 prize money.
Samy "dralii" Hajji became the first three-time EWC champion of any title in the event's history.
Saleh Abdullah "Rw9" Bakhashwin took home the tournament MVP title along with $25,000 in prize money.
Rainbow Six Siege X: FaZe Clan
FaZe Clan beat FURIA 3-1 without dropping a single match all tournament, earning $750,000 and their first non-Six Invitational major title as a five-man roster in almost five years.
Jaime "Cyber" Ramos was named MVP after a huge performance in the final, putting up 53 kills against just 29 deaths across the series.
FaZe entered as two-time reigning Six Invitational champions, but this win filled in the one gap on their resume, a major international title outside of the SI.
The final itself was a rematch of an earlier South America League Stage final, and FaZe again came out on top, closing things out on Lair for the title.
Chess: Magnus Carlsen
Magnus Carlsen defended his Chess title, beating 19-year-old Denis Lazavik 2-0 in sets without losing a single game across the entire event, earning $250,000.
The tournament brought together 22 of the world's strongest rapid players for a $1.5 million prize fund, the richest single chess event on the current calendar.
Carlsen beat Nihal Sarin in the quarterfinals and Alireza Firouzja in the semis before needing just eight total games to see off Lazavik in the final.
Hikaru Nakamura took third place with $145,000 after beating Firouzja in the bronze medal match.
The biggest upset of the event came when Lazavik, the youngest player left in the field, eliminated 2023 World Rapid Champion Nodirbek Abdusattorov in the quarterfinals.
Counter-Strike 2: Team Spirit
Team Spirit took down FUT Esports 3-1, clinching three straight wins on Anubis, Ancient, and Nuke to secure the $600,000 trophy.
FUT grabbed the opening map, Cache, but Spirit responded by winning both of their own map picks and snatching FUT's second pick, Ancient, in overtime. FUT forced overtime again on Anubis, but a flawless T-side stretch from Spirit shut that door.
Danil "donk" Kryshkovets was once again the standout, ending the series with 88 kills against only 70 deaths and a 91.9 average damage per round, earning MVP and a $25,000 bonus.
Fortnite Reload: BIG
BIG duo Taylor-Petrik "vic0" Gatschelhofer and Danila "Malibuca" Yakovenko won the Fortnite Reload Elite Series, becoming the first team to win back-to-back Fortnite LAN titles after also taking the FNCS 2026 Major 1 Summit championship back in May.
They sealed the win in the 13th match of the grand final, earning the $260,000 first-place prize.
vic0 was named MVP after racking up 32 eliminations and 19 knocks across the tournament.
French duo Momsy and SkyJump finished second, with Aurora Gaming's shxrk and t3eny taking third.
Trackmania: Gwen
Gwendal "Gwen" Duparc's win in the tournament's debut Trackmania event ended up deciding the entire Club Championship race.
Team Falcons had entered the final week leading the standings at 4,600 points, but a quarterfinal exit for their star player Carl-Antoni "Carl Jr." Cloutier opened the door. Gwen only needed to finish third or better in the final to hand AG.AL the title, and he did far more than that, jumping out to a nearly flawless lead across the first two maps in front of his home French crowd.
His win earned him the $130,000 first-place prize and, more importantly, locked up the $7 million Club Championship for AG.AL.
He said after the win, "It feels so great. Anything can happen. I've done it, I've done the match of my life. Thank you, everyone. This trophy is for you, for everyone."
CrossFire: BaiSha
BaiSha Gaming closed out the tournament with a 3-0 sweep of Team Liquid, taking home $750,000 out of a $2 million pool.
It was not a smooth road for BaiSha, who actually dropped a group stage match and needed a decider just to reach the playoffs. Once there, they eliminated defending champions AG.AL 2-1 in the quarterfinals before beating fellow Chinese side KINGZERO-eSports 3-1 in the semis.
Team Liquid, meanwhile, reached their first ever CrossFire major final by grinding out a 3-2 win over Team Stallions.
Wang "N9" Hao was named MVP and picked up an extra $25,000, deflecting credit afterward by saying, "It's a team game first and foremost, and I think I simply did what needed to be done."
AG.AL Take the Club Championship
In the end, it was AG.AL (also known as All Gamers) that took home the Club Championship crown, finishing with 5,300 points and pocketing the $7 million top prize.
That edged out two-time defending champions Team Falcons, who came in second with 4,600 points and $5 million.
Team Vitality rounded out the podium in third with 3,300 points and $4 million, followed by Natus Vincere and Team Liquid.
The whole thing was sealed when AG.AL's Gwendal "Gwen" Duparc won the brand new Trackmania event, which turned out to be the deciding factor in the entire Club Championship race.
AG.AL's overall run included the TEKKEN 8 win, second place finishes in Chess, Free Fire, and Honor of Kings, and a third place finish in Teamfight Tactics before the Trackmania victory sealed the deal, finishing with 5,300 points ahead of Team Falcons in second.
Paris also set new benchmarks across the board for the event overall. Ticket sales hit 175,000, up 94% from last year, and total visits across venues, Fan Fest, and city activations reached 2 million over the 7 week span.
The Esports World Cup will now head back to Riyadh for its 2027 edition, but the Paris chapter leaves behind a pretty massive legacy for a first-time host city outside Saudi Arabia.
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