The Worlds 2026 semifinals are done. Gen.G swept Invictus Gaming (IG) 3:0, and Bilibili Gaming (BLG) knocked out T1 3:1, so the 2026 League of Legends World Championship final is Gen.G vs BLG. Both series were played at the Credit Union of Texas Event Center in Allen, Texas, starting at 4 p.m.
Central Time: Gen.G vs IG on Saturday, November 7, and BLG vs T1 on Sunday, November 8. To get here, Gen.G beat LYON 3:0, IG beat Top Esports 3:1, BLG beat Dplus KIA 3:0 and T1 beat Karmine Corp 3:1 in the quarterfinals.
If you want the earlier picture, our LCK at Worlds 2026 roundup and LPL at Worlds 2026 roundup cover the Swiss stage and the road to the quarterfinals. This page picks up from there with the semifinal results game by game: who won, how long each game ran and the plays that decided it.
We only list moments that more than one outlet reported the same way, and we do not predict the final. Everything here is as of November 10, 2026.
Worlds 2026 semifinals, game by game (as of November 10, 2026)
| Series and game | Winner and game time | Key play |
|---|---|---|
| Gen.G vs IG, Game 1 | Gen.G, 33:38 | Canyon set the pace with early kills around top side, and Gen.G closed it out after taking Baron and the dragon soul. |
| Gen.G vs IG, Game 2 | Gen.G, 29:16 | IG pressured bot lane early, but Gen.G punished an IG tower dive, won the mid game fight and took Baron to go up 2:0. |
| Gen.G vs IG, Game 3 | Gen.G, 40:08 | IG led on kills and objectives, but in a late dragon fight Gen.G stole the dragon IG had started, then took Baron and turned the game around. |
| BLG vs T1, Game 1 | BLG, 30:24 | BLG took early dragons and Voidgrubs, won the Herald fight to stretch the lead, then took Baron and finished. |
| BLG vs T1, Game 2 | T1, 32:14 | Behind on kills, T1 flipped the game with Oner’s Baron steal, added the dragon soul and broke the Nexus to tie the series 1:1. |
| BLG vs T1, Game 3 | BLG, 36:58 | BLG got ahead top side early and T1 drew level for a while in the mid game, but BLG won a big fight near Baron and took the Baron and the dragon soul. |
| BLG vs T1, Game 4 | BLG, 37:47 | BLG won a big dragon fight at 17 minutes with chained area crowd control. Around 28 minutes T1 scored an ace and took Baron to erase the gold gap, but BLG won the fights that followed. |
T1 eliminated: the records that ended and what the final means
T1’s elimination at Worlds 2026 ended three runs at once. First, T1 had not lost a best of five to an LPL team at Worlds since the 2013 final, and this semifinal was the first one it lost. Second, T1 won Worlds in 2023, 2024 and 2025, so its bid for a fourth straight title is over.
Third, its run of four straight finals, which began in 2022, stops here. On the other side, BLG became the first LPL team to beat T1 in a Worlds best of five. BLG lost the 2024 final to T1 and is now back in the final two years later, its second Worlds final overall.
Gen.G is in its first final since the organization won Worlds in 2017 as Samsung Galaxy, nine years ago, and its first under the Gen.G name. It is also Chovy’s first Worlds final.
After the sweep, Chovy said in substance that he had struggled to enjoy past tournaments because of expectations and pressure, and that this time he went in enjoying the moment. For every past final score, see our Worlds winners list.
After the loss, fan discussion about why T1 fell split two ways: some point to the draft and series preparation, others to execution in teamfights. We do not take a side here and stick to what happened on stage.
How to compare semifinal teamfights with your own solo queue games
- 1Note the timestamps firstPick the moments you want to study from the official VODs and write down the game and minute. Objective fights work best, like the late dragon steal in Gen.G vs IG Game 3 or the fight around 28 minutes of BLG vs T1 Game 4. Our Worlds 2026 VODs and highlights guide shows where to rewatch them.
- 2Keep your own games on recordYou need your own footage to compare. With DOR running, League is detected when you launch it and the whole game is recorded, while kills, multikills and objectives are saved as separate automatic clips. Start from the clip list when you look for a fight at dragon or Baron.
- 3Watch the fight from another angleYour own camera hides where your teammates were. Play the .rofl replay in the League client to rewatch the same fight from a free camera, and DOR records the replay playback too. The steps are in how to save a LoL ROFL replay as MP4.
- 4Compare one thing at a timePut the pro clip and your clip side by side and check a single point: vision one minute before the objective, when each player arrived, or who engaged first. Our League VOD review guide walks through picking that point.
- 5Try one change next gameTake the one difference you found into your next game, then rewatch the same window in that game’s recording. Changing several things at once makes it hard to tell what actually helped.
Before the final
- Time: Saturday, November 14 at 2 p.m. ET (11 a.m. PT, 19:00 UTC).
- Venue: Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
- Matchup: Gen.G vs BLG. Gen.G swept IG 3:0 and BLG beat T1 3:1 in the semifinals.
- Storylines: Gen.G’s first final under that name and first in nine years, Chovy’s first Worlds final, and BLG’s second Worlds final.
- Where to watch: check our Worlds 2026 streams guide for official channels.
Record your own teamfights with DOR and compare them
DOR is a free Windows game recorder. When you launch League of Legends it detects the game and records the whole match, and it saves kills, multikills and objectives as automatic clips in the app’s My Clips.
Replay and spectator recording is on by default for League, so playing a .rofl replay gets recorded as well. Just like the dragon steal comeback or the ace into Baron from the semifinals, pull out only the fights around objectives in your own games and rewatch them.
Trim a segment in the app to 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1, or use DOR Studio (dor.gg/studio) to merge several clips, add text notes and send them to your duo as a dor.gg link. The review routine is in our League VOD review guide, and everything DOR does for League is on the League of Legends game page.
