VALORANT Game Changers Championship 2026 update, 30 October: top four locked, Liquid and SK out

As of 30 October 2026. The VALORANT Game Changers Championship in São Paulo is down to four. Gentle Mates GC and Shopify Rebellion Gold are still unbeaten and play today’s upper final, while MIBR GC and KRÜ Blaze fight for a place in the lower final. Defending champions Team Liquid Brazil are out, finishing fifth–sixth with SK Nebula. Today’s two series have not been played yet. For the teams and format, see our Game Changers Championship guide, and for the earlier lower-bracket openers see our 26 October update.

Results since the last update

Monday 26 October – lower round 2

• SK Nebula 2–0 FENNEL GC. Map scores: Lotus 13–5, Sunset 13–11. FENNEL are eliminated (seventh–eighth with G2).
• Team Liquid Brazil 2–0 G2 Gozen. Map scores: Split 13–7, Sunset 13–8. G2 leave without a map win at this event.

Tuesday 27 October – upper semi-finals

• Gentle Mates GC 2–0 MIBR GC. Map scores: Ascent 13–4, Haven 13–11. Gentle Mates stay unbeaten on maps as well as series.
• Shopify Rebellion Gold 2–0 KRÜ Blaze. Map scores: Lotus 13–7, Sunset 13–6. Last year’s finalists also remain without a map loss.

Wednesday 28 October – lower round 3 (loser out)

• MIBR GC 2–0 SK Nebula. Map scores: Summit 13–0, Lotus 13–4. Hotspawn and rib.gg both put MIBR’s round differential for the series at 26–4.
• KRÜ Blaze 2–0 Team Liquid Brazil. Map scores: Summit 13–9, Haven 13–6. That ends the home side’s title defence; Liquid and SK Nebula finish fifth–sixth.

Thursday 29 October was a rest day, as Riot listed.

Where every team stands

Status	Teams
Unbeaten, upper final today	Gentle Mates GC, Shopify Rebellion Gold
One loss, lower round 4 today	MIBR GC, KRÜ Blaze
Eliminated, 5th–6th	Team Liquid Brazil, SK Nebula
Eliminated, 7th–8th	G2 Gozen, FENNEL GC
Eliminated, 9th–10th	Nova Esports GC, Gen.G GC

Standout players so far

Reporting from Hotspawn and match pages on rib.gg (not official Riot awards):

• Wens (Gentle Mates GC) has been the standout name on the EMEA side’s unbeaten run, alongside Marti, Nami, safiaa and berryx.
• alexis (Shopify Rebellion Gold) is calling as interim IGL on a side that has swept every series here so far.
• bstrdd and waved (MIBR GC) put up huge ACS numbers in the 13–0 Summit against SK Nebula (rib.gg).
• tok1o (KRÜ Blaze) led the series that knocked out Liquid, including a strong first-kill count on Summit.

Individual leaderboards can shift once finals weekend is done; treat the names above as form notes, not a locked MVP list.

Today’s matches (not yet played)

Riot’s primer puts finals-weekend match days with first map at 15:00 Brazil time (BRT). That is 18:00 UK (GMT). The second series follows the first, so its start time is approximate (~21:00 UK on bracket sites). Europe is on standard time; the US does not change until Sunday 1 November, so ET and PT below are still daylight time. “+1” means the next calendar day.

Date	Match	Format	UK (GMT)	CET	ET	PT	BRT	KST / JST	Sydney (AEDT)
Fri 30 Oct	Gentle Mates GC vs Shopify Rebellion Gold (upper final)	Bo3	18:00	19:00	14:00	11:00	15:00	03:00 +1	05:00 +1
Fri 30 Oct	MIBR GC vs KRÜ Blaze (lower round 4, loser out)	Bo3	~21:00	~22:00	~17:00	~14:00	~18:00	~06:00 +1	~08:00 +1

Argentina (KRÜ Blaze) is on the same clock as Brazil for these fixtures (BRT column).

What to watch for:

• Upper final: winner goes straight to Sunday’s grand final; loser drops into Saturday’s lower final (Bo5). Both teams arrive without a map loss at this LAN.
• Lower round 4: the loser is eliminated in fourth; the winner plays the upper-final loser on Saturday for the other grand-final spot.

What comes next

• Sat 31 October: lower final (Bo5) from 18:00 UK (19:00 CET, 14:00 ET, 11:00 PT, 15:00 BRT, 03:00 KST +1). Pairing is unconfirmed until tonight’s results are in.
• Sun 1 November: grand final (Bo5) from 18:00 UK. US clocks go back that morning, so that is 19:00 CET, 13:00 ET, 10:00 PT, 15:00 BRT and 03:00 KST +1. The upper-final winner starts here; the lower-final winner has to win this series to take the title.

Exact start times for the second match each day, and any schedule tweaks Riot announces on the day, are unconfirmed until listed live on valorantesports.com or the official streams. Check the bracket on the day before you set an alarm for the late series.

How to watch

Official streams are on the VALORANT esports channels on Twitch, YouTube and Kick, linked from valorantesports.com, which also carries the live bracket. Riot says Drops need your Riot account linked to Twitch or Kick. For stream links and a fuller time-zone guide, see how to watch LoL Worlds and VALORANT Game Changers 2026. More coverage is in our Esports section.