LoL Worlds 2026 so far: Swiss Stage results and who's favourite for the Summoner's Cup

As of 25 October 2026. The League of Legends World Championship is in the middle of its Swiss Stage in the United States. Two rounds of the Swiss are done, Round 3 starts today, and nobody has qualified for the quarter-finals yet. Here’s every result so far, how the format works from here, and who looks strongest. We won’t guess any scores: anything that hasn’t been played is marked as such.

Where Worlds 2026 stands

Riot splits Worlds 2026 into three stages: the Play-In Stage (15–18 October), the Swiss Stage (23–31 October) and the Knockout Stage (3–14 November). The quarter-finals and semi-finals are in Allen, Texas, and the final is in Brooklyn, New York, on Saturday 14 November.

Twenty teams qualified from six leagues: four each from the LPL (China) and the LCK (Korea), three each from the LEC (EMEA), the LCS (North America) and the LCP (Asia-Pacific), and two from the CBLOL (Brazil).

Play-In Stage: Karmine Corp go through

Four teams played a best-of-five, double-elimination bracket for one Swiss Stage spot:

• Karmine Corp 3–2 Cloud9 (15 October)
• MVK Esports 3–0 FURIA (15 October)
• Karmine Corp 3–0 MVK Esports (16 October)
• FURIA 3–1 Cloud9 (16 October) – Cloud9 eliminated
• MVK Esports 3–1 FURIA (17 October) – FURIA eliminated
• Karmine Corp 3–0 MVK Esports (18 October) – Karmine Corp qualify, MVK eliminated

Swiss Stage Round 1 (23 October, all best-of-one)

• Gen.G 1–0 Invictus Gaming
• Hanwha Life Esports 1–0 Top Esports
• Movistar KOI 1–0 Bilibili Gaming
• Karmine Corp 1–0 Anyone’s Legend
• Dplus KIA 1–0 G2 Esports
• CTBC Flying Oyster 1–0 Team Liquid Alienware
• T1 1–0 LOS
• LYON 1–0 Team Secret Whales

The headline: all four LPL teams lost their opening games.

Swiss Stage Round 2 (24 October, all best-of-one)

• Top Esports 1–0 Anyone’s Legend
• Movistar KOI 1–0 CTBC Flying Oyster
• G2 Esports 1–0 LOS
• LYON 1–0 Karmine Corp
• Invictus Gaming 1–0 Team Secret Whales
• Gen.G 1–0 Hanwha Life Esports
• Dplus KIA 1–0 T1
• Bilibili Gaming 1–0 Team Liquid Alienware

The standings after two rounds

Record	Teams
2–0	Gen.G, Dplus KIA, Movistar KOI, LYON
1–1	T1, Hanwha Life Esports, Top Esports, Invictus Gaming, Bilibili Gaming, G2 Esports, Karmine Corp, CTBC Flying Oyster
0–2	Anyone’s Legend, Team Liquid Alienware, LOS, Team Secret Whales

What happens next

Three wins takes a team into the quarter-finals; three losses and they’re out. From Round 3, matches that decide qualification or elimination are best-of-three.

Round 3, Sunday 25 October (not yet played at the time of writing): Hanwha Life vs Invictus Gaming and Top Esports vs G2 (both best-of-one), then Dplus KIA vs Movistar KOI and Gen.G vs LYON, both best-of-three with a quarter-final place on the line.

Round 3, Monday 26 October: T1 vs CTBC Flying Oyster and Karmine Corp vs Bilibili Gaming (best-of-one), then the elimination series LOS vs Team Secret Whales and Team Liquid Alienware vs Anyone’s Legend (best-of-three).

Rounds 4 and 5 follow from 28 to 31 October, and the quarter-final draw takes place on 31 October. Our how-to-watch guide has every time in UK time and other major zones.

So, who’s favourite?

There are no bookmaker odds here, just form. As of 25 October:

• Gen.G look the most convincing team in the event. They’re 2–0, and their win over Hanwha Life was one of the most one-sided games of the stage so far. If you want one name, it’s theirs.
• Dplus KIA are 2–0 too, after two comeback wins, including a late turnaround against T1. They’re winning ugly, which counts for a lot in a Swiss.
• T1 are the reigning champions: they beat KT Rolster 3–2 in the 2025 final for a record third title in a row. A 1–1 start is no crisis, and nobody sensible writes T1 off at Worlds, but they now have less room for error.
• The LPL started 0–4 and then won three of four in Round 2. Bilibili Gaming, Top Esports and Invictus Gaming are all 1–1 and very much alive.
• The West is the surprise. Movistar KOI and LYON are both 2–0, and one of them is guaranteed a quarter-final place if they win their Round 3 series today.

Our honest read: Gen.G are the favourites on form, Dplus KIA and T1 are the main LCK threats, and the LPL can’t be ruled out after its Round 2 bounce-back. We’ll know far more after the quarter-final draw on 31 October.

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