Worlds 2026 Final: Gen.G vs Bilibili Gaming in Brooklyn After T1's Three-Peat Ends

The League of Legends Worlds 2026 final is set: Gen.G against Bilibili Gaming, Saturday, November 14, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, starting at 2 pm Eastern (19:00 UTC). It's the first Worlds final on US soil since 2022, and it will be played without T1, the three-time defending champion, who lost the semifinal to Bilibili Gaming 3–1 on November 8. Details here are from the tournament's Wikipedia page as of November 10 and will be updated after the final.

Barclays Center, Brooklyn. Photo: Erik Cleves Kristensen, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; cropped.

How we got here

Worlds 2026 has been a North American tour. The play-in ran October 15–18 at the small Riot Games Arena in Los Angeles, the Swiss stage and the knockout rounds (October 23 – November 8) at the Credit Union of Texas Event Center in Allen, outside Dallas, and the final moves to New York.

Quarterfinals (November 3–6, Allen, Texas)

Semifinals (November 7–8)

Gen.G have dropped exactly zero games in the knockout stage. Bilibili Gaming have dropped one, to T1, and that one game is the only thing standing between them and a perfect bracket too.

The T1 story

T1 won Worlds in 2023, 2024 and 2025, the first three-peat in the tournament's history. Coming into Brooklyn as the team everyone wanted to see lose or win, they went out in the semifinal to the LPL's Bilibili Gaming, 3–1. The quarterfinal win over Karmine Corp, Europe's team, had looked like the usual T1 playoff gear. It wasn't enough against BLG's draft and early game. However you feel about T1, a final without them changes the atmosphere: this is the first Worlds final since 2022 that isn't a T1 coronation attempt.

Gen.G vs Bilibili Gaming: what to watch

• LCK vs LPL again. Korea's Gen.G against China's Bilibili Gaming is the classic Worlds final pairing of the last decade, just with a different Korean team in the seat.
• Fearless Draft. This year's best-of-fives use Fearless Draft: a champion picked by either team is locked out for the rest of the series. Over five games that means up to fifty champions off the board by game five, so depth of champion pool decides more than it ever did. Gen.G's 3–0 sweeps mean they've shown less of their pool than BLG have.
• The stakes. The base prize pool is US$5,000,000. The winner takes $1,000,000 (20%), the runner-up $800,000. T1 and Invictus Gaming leave with $400,000 each for third–fourth.

Date, time and how to watch

• When: Saturday, November 14, 2026, 2:00 pm ET / 11:00 am PT / 19:00 UTC. That's 1:00 am Sunday in Dhaka and 12:30 am in Delhi; 8 pm in London; 4 am Sunday in Seoul.
• Where: Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York (capacity about 19,000). Tickets, if any remain, are through the venue and the tournament organiser's official channels only; the final sold out in minutes in previous years.
• Watch: Worlds is streamed free on the organiser's official broadcast, which in recent years has run on lolesports.com and Riot's own Twitch and YouTube channels, with co-streams by approved creators. We'll link the exact streams here on the day.
• Format: Best of five, Fearless Draft.

If you want to play something competitive this weekend

Watching a final makes people want to play. If you're on a laptop or a phone and don't want a 60 GB install, two of our browser games run live rooms with friends: Shamble Siege puts three of you in one zombie horde with a board at the end that shows who got the kills and who took the boss, and Willow Smash runs cricket rooms for up to four friends on their own devices with a shareable score card. Neither is a MOBA (they're small browser games), but they're free, they're instant, and they're a decent way to kill the hour before the broadcast starts.

Sources: the Worlds 2026 Wikipedia article (bracket, venues, prize pool, schedule), checked November 10, 2026. We will update this page after the final with the result and MVP.

FAQ

When is the League of Legends Worlds 2026 final?

Saturday, November 14, 2026, at 2:00 pm Eastern Time (11:00 am Pacific, 19:00 UTC), at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. It is a best-of-five series with Fearless Draft. The time comes from the tournament schedule published on the Worlds 2026 Wikipedia page as of November 10, 2026.

Who is playing in the Worlds 2026 final?

Gen.G from Korea's LCK against Bilibili Gaming from China's LPL. Gen.G beat LYON 3–0 and Invictus Gaming 3–0 to reach the final; Bilibili Gaming beat Dplus KIA 3–0 and then the three-time defending champion T1 3–1 in the semifinal on November 8.

Why isn't T1 in the Worlds 2026 final?

T1 lost the semifinal to Bilibili Gaming 3–1 on November 8 in Allen, Texas, ending their run of three straight world titles (2023, 2024, 2025). They had beaten Karmine Corp 3–1 in the quarterfinal. T1 finish in the third–fourth bracket and take home $400,000 of the prize pool.

How much is the Worlds 2026 prize pool?

The base prize pool is US$5,000,000. The champion receives $1,000,000 (20%), the runner-up $800,000 (16%), the two semifinal losers $400,000 each, and the quarterfinal losers $300,000 each. Lower placements receive between $30,000 and $175,000, and the pool can grow with in-game sales as in past years.

Where can I watch the Worlds 2026 final for free?

On the tournament organiser's official broadcast. In recent years that has meant lolesports.com and the official Twitch and YouTube channels, plus approved co-streamers, all free. We will add the exact stream links to this article on the day of the final, so check back on November 14.

What is Fearless Draft?

A rule used in this year's best-of-three and best-of-five series: once a champion is picked by either team, neither team can pick it again for the rest of that series. In a five-game final that can remove up to fifty champions by the last game, so teams with deeper champion pools have an edge, and game-five drafts get strange.