Worlds 2026 is down to one match. As of November 10, the quarterfinals and semifinals in Allen, Texas are done, and the grand final between Gen.G and Bilibili Gaming is set for November 14 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Before that final, a run of records has already been set or broken.
Karmine Corp (LEC) and LYON (LCS) gave the West two quarterfinalists for the first time since 2021. LYON became the first LCS team to reach the knockout stage at a Worlds held in North America since Cloud9 in 2016.
And T1, the three-time defending champion, lost a best-of-five to an LPL team at Worlds for the first time, ending a streak that began with the 2013 final.
This page sorts those results into record cards and a year-by-year table of Western quarterfinalists, built by checking each tournament's bracket. All dates are local time in Texas or New York. It does not predict the final.
Worlds 2026 records at a glance (as of November 10)
The quarterfinal field was three LCK teams (Gen.G, Dplus KIA, T1), three LPL teams (Top Esports, Invictus Gaming, Bilibili Gaming), one LEC team (Karmine Corp) and one LCS team (LYON).
In the quarterfinals, played November 3 to 6, Invictus Gaming beat Top Esports 3:1 in an all-LPL series, Gen.G swept LYON 3:0, BLG swept Dplus KIA 3:0 and T1 beat Karmine Corp 3:1. In the semifinals, Gen.G swept Invictus Gaming on November 7 and BLG beat T1 3:1 on November 8.
The records fall into three groups. The West: two quarterfinalists for the first time in five years, with KC at its first Worlds and LYON posting the best result in team history.
T1: its unbeaten run in best-of-five series against LPL teams at Worlds is over, and with it the bid for a fourth straight title. Gen.G and Chovy: the organization's first final since its Samsung Galaxy era, and the first final of Chovy's career. For every past champion and final score, see the full list of Worlds winners.
Five record cards from Worlds 2026
- 1Two Western teams in the quarterfinalsKarmine Corp and LYON both made the quarterfinals. That is the first time two Western teams from Europe and North America reached the last eight since Cloud9 and MAD Lions in 2021. In between, the West had exactly one quarterfinalist a year: Rogue in 2022, NRG in 2023, FlyQuest in 2024 and G2 in 2025. This is not an official Riot statistic; it comes from checking each year's bracket, and the table below lists every team.
- 2Karmine Corp: from the Play-In to the last eight at a first WorldsThis is KC's first Worlds. The team qualified as the LEC's third-place summer finisher, started in the Play-In in Los Angeles, needed five games to get past Cloud9 and took the final Swiss Stage spot. In Swiss, KC opened with a win over Anyone's Legend, the LPL Split 3 champion, dropped series to LYON and BLG, then beat CTBC Flying Oyster and swept Movistar KOI to finish with three wins and two losses. T1 ended the run 3:1 in the quarterfinal on November 6, so KC finishes tied for 5th to 8th.
- 3LYON: first LCS knockout run at a North American Worlds since 2016LYON opened Swiss with wins over Team Secret Whales and Karmine Corp, lost 1:2 to Gen.G and 1:2 to Invictus Gaming, then came back from a game down to beat Brazil's LOS 2:1 in the final round. That result also kept LOS from becoming the first CBLOL team in a Worlds knockout stage. Going by each year's results, LYON is the first LCS team to reach the knockout stage at a Worlds in North America since Cloud9 in 2016; at the 2022 event, all three LCS teams went out in groups. LYON had never finished above 17th in four earlier Worlds trips, so its tied 5th to 8th place after a 0:3 loss to Gen.G on November 4 is the best in team history.
- 4T1: unbeaten in Worlds Bo5s against the LPL, until BLGStarting with the 2013 final, T1 won every best-of-five series it played against LPL teams at Worlds. BLG ended that on November 8 with a 3:1 semifinal win, the first time an LPL team has beaten T1 in a Worlds Bo5. Keep the scope exact: at MSI 2026 in July, BLG beat T1 3:2 in the bracket stage, so the record only holds for Worlds. T1, champion in 2023, 2024 and 2025, finishes tied for 3rd to 4th. The full recap of both semifinals is in the Worlds 2026 semifinals breakdown.
- 5Gen.G and Chovy: a first final in nine years, and a first final everGen.G swept Invictus Gaming 3:0 on November 7 to reach the final. It is the organization's first Worlds final since it won the title as Samsung Galaxy in 2017. Chovy played at every Worlds from 2019 to 2025 and went out in the quarterfinals or semifinals all seven times, so this is the first final of his career. Their opponent, BLG, lost the 2024 final to T1 3:2.
Western teams in the Worlds quarterfinals, year by year (2016, 2021 to 2026)
| Year and host | Western quarterfinalists | Quarterfinal result |
|---|---|---|
| 2016, United States | Cloud9 (NA), H2K (EU) | C9 lost 0:3 to Samsung Galaxy; H2K beat ANX 3:0 and reached the semifinals |
| 2021, Iceland | Cloud9 (NA), MAD Lions (EU) | C9 lost 0:3 to Gen.G; MAD lost 0:3 to DWG KIA |
| 2022, Mexico and United States | Rogue (EU) | Lost 0:3 to JDG. Cloud9, 100 Thieves and Evil Geniuses all went out in groups |
| 2023, South Korea | NRG (NA) | Lost 0:3 to Weibo Gaming |
| 2024, Europe | FlyQuest (NA) | Lost 2:3 to Gen.G |
| 2025, China | G2 Esports (EU) | Lost 1:3 to Top Esports |
| 2026, United States | Karmine Corp (EU), LYON (NA) | KC lost 1:3 to T1; LYON lost 0:3 to Gen.G |
Before the final
- The final is Gen.G vs Bilibili Gaming on November 14 at 2 p.m. ET (19:00 UTC) at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Times and venue details are in the Worlds 2026 final guide.
- Everything on this page is as of November 10, 2026. The champion's records get added after the final.
- When you quote T1's streak, keep all three limits: Worlds, best-of-five, against LPL teams. Drop one and MSI 2026 makes the sentence wrong.
- The two Western quarterfinalists record and LYON's 2016 comparison come from matching each year's bracket, not from a single official statistic.
- Placements so far: T1 and Invictus Gaming tied 3rd to 4th; Karmine Corp, LYON, Top Esports and Dplus KIA tied 5th to 8th.
Watch the pros on VOD, keep your own games with DOR
The record-setting games live on the official VODs, and where to watch Worlds VODs and highlights lists the channels. Your own games are a different story. DOR is a free Windows app for recording games.
Launch League of Legends and it detects the game, records the whole match and saves kills, multikills and objectives as automatic highlight clips in My Clips. Replay and spectator recording is on by default, so playing back an older .rofl replay gets recorded too.
Try one lane setup or teamfight angle you saw at Worlds in your next solo queue game, then put your recording next to the pro VOD and compare what was different. When a play is worth sending, combine clips in DOR Studio (dor.gg/studio) and share a dor.gg link. How to share League gameplay videos walks through it, and the League of Legends page covers everything else DOR does for the game.
