How to watch Esports World Cup 2026: full guide

The Esports World Cup 2026 is live. As of Friday, July 24, 2026, the seven-week run has reached its Week 3 crescendo in Paris: PUBG: Battlegrounds opens its Grand Finals, Teamfight Tactics starts its playoff bracket, EA Sports FC 26 closes its league stage, and the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Mid Season Cup rolls through its groups. Off to the side, the Street Fighter 6 Last Chance Qualifier begins today, the final open door into that title's Game Championship. This is the first EWC staged outside Riyadh, relocated to Paris in mid-May, and it runs from the Valorant early start on July 2 through to the Counter-Strike 2 grand final on Sunday, August 23. This guide is refreshed every morning while the EWC and the EWC Qualifier track are active.

Live this week: where things stand

Week 3 (July 20 to 26) is the multi-title week, four brackets running in parallel across the Paris Expo halls. Today, July 24, the headline is knockout PUBG. The PUBG: Battlegrounds Grand Finals open with the 16 teams that survived the group stage, playing for a share of a $2 million prize pool, and the champion is decided on the July 26 final day under the Smash Rule format. Cross-checked on the official EWC Week 3 overview and Dot Esports, the group stage closed on July 23 and the top 16 of 24 advanced.

Teamfight Tactics moves to knockouts too. The TFT playoffs begin today as an eight-team single-elimination bracket, built from the two groups that closed on July 23, and the best-of-five grand final lands on July 25. EA Sports FC 26 plays the final day of its league stage today: 36 players, six matches each, with the top 24 carrying into the single-elimination playoffs on July 25 and 26 for a $1.5 million prize pool. And the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Mid Season Cup, 16 teams in two groups, continues its group phase through July 26 as the defending champion chases back-to-back titles. Reported prize figures for the MSC differ between trackers, so we are treating the total as approximate until two sources align.

Full schedule by game

The EWC 2026 main event runs from July 6 to August 23 at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, with 25 tournaments spread across 24 games over seven weeks. Four Game Championships run each week across the Paris Expo halls.

The confirmed game lineup is: Apex Legends, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Call of Duty: Warzone, Chess, Counter-Strike 2, CrossFire, Dota 2, EA Sports FC 26, FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves, Fortnite, Free Fire, Honor of Kings, League of Legends, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Overwatch 2, PUBG: Battlegrounds, PUBG Mobile, Rocket League, Street Fighter 6, Teamfight Tactics, TEKKEN 8, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Trackmania, and Valorant. The Call of Duty program covers both Black Ops 7 and Warzone with separate brackets. Trackmania is new to the lineup this year, and Fortnite returns with the Reload mode.

Per-game bracket pages on Esport Agenda map to each title's EWC view: League of Legends, Counter-Strike 2, Valorant, Dota 2, Rocket League, and Rainbow Six Siege. Overwatch 2 and Call of Duty do not yet have a per-game EWC bracket page; follow them through the Overwatch hub and the Call of Duty hub until those bracket pages open.

Key game-by-game windows inside the seven weeks: Valorant July 2 to 12 (complete, won by 100 Thieves), Dota 2 July 7 to 19 (complete, won by PARIVISION), League of Legends July 15 to 19 (complete, won by Dplus KIA), Teamfight Tactics July 21 to 25, PUBG: Battlegrounds July 21 to 26, EA Sports FC 26 July 22 to 26, the Mobile Legends Mid Season Cup July 22 to August 1, PUBG Mobile August 6 to 16, Rainbow Six Siege August 4 to 15, Rocket League August 12 to 16, and Counter-Strike 2 closing the calendar with its grand final on August 23.

Format and prize pool

The Esports World Cup 2026 carries a record total prize pool north of $70 million, up from 2025. The headline allocations are clear even where the exact totals vary between sources.

The EWC Club Championship distributes a multi-million-dollar pool across the top clubs, with the winning club receiving $7 million. The Club Championship is the umbrella standing that rewards multi-game club performance across the seven weeks: each Game Championship awards points to clubs based on finish, first through eighth, and those points stack toward the final leaderboard. Individual Game Championships carry their own dedicated prize pools, awarded per tournament: PUBG Mobile, the Mobile Legends Mid Season Cup, and Honor of Kings sit at the top tier, while Counter-Strike 2, Valorant, Dota 2, Apex Legends, PUBG: Battlegrounds, Rainbow Six Siege, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, League of Legends, and CrossFire each carry around $2 million. The remainder funds Club and Player Awards, including per-tournament MVPs and the Jafonso Award, given to a player or club that wins a Game Championship after advancing from a Last Chance Qualifier. Reported totals for the overall pool and the Club Championship distribution vary between the official figures and community trackers, so treat the tier structure as firm and the headline totals as approximate.

More than 2,000 players from over 200 clubs and 100 countries compete. Each game keeps its own competitive format, with most tournaments running group or seeding stages into double-elimination or single-elimination playoffs.

Club Championship standings: today's snapshot

Three Game Championships have now paid out points, so the leaderboard has real shape. Cross-checked against the official Club Championship ranking, Liquipedia, and community trackers at bo3.gg and Sheep Esports, Natus Vincere lead on roughly 1,750 points, built on DarkAngel's FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves title and a runner-up finish at the Mobile Legends Women's International. Team Vitality sit second on about 1,400, carrying the Women's International trophy plus points from FATAL FURY and Valorant. AG.AL International hold third on around 1,100, off a Free Fire runner-up run and finishes in League of Legends and Apex Legends. Notably, Team Falcons sit well down the board near 14th on about 600 points after an early Dota 2 exit, a striking position for one of the clubs built for the $7 million top prize. Exact point totals differ slightly between the official ranking and community trackers, so treat the order as firm and the figures as approximate.

The board is about to move again. PUBG, Teamfight Tactics, EA Sports FC 26, and the Mobile Legends Mid Season Cup all award points this week, and with the multi-game clubs stacked mid-table, a single deep run can reshuffle the top five.

Where to watch: regional co-streams

The EWC operates a global English broadcast plus regional co-streams in the major languages. Today's live PUBG Grand Finals, TFT playoffs, EA Sports FC 26 league games, and Mobile Legends group matches stream across the official Esports World Cup channels and each game's own channels, with multiple simultaneous feeds so parallel matches do not clash. Expect language-specific feeds in French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Arabic, with the French feed gaining first-party prominence given the Paris host city. Match VODs and final standings sit on the official broadcasters' YouTube archives and on the per-event Liquipedia pages.

Storylines to track

The first thread of Week 3 is the Korean sweep on the big stages. League of Legends went to Dplus KIA, who overpowered home favorites Karmine Corp in a July 19 final that capped a tournament full of upsets, with former winners T1 and Gen.G meeting only in the third-place match. It was a statement result for the LCK on the sport's biggest multi-game stage.

The second thread is the Dota 2 shock still echoing. PARIVISION lifted the Dota 2 title on July 19 after Vici Gaming knocked out reigning TI champions Team Falcons 2-0 and defending EWC winners Team Spirit bowed out before the final four. Two of the tournament's biggest names left Paris early, and the Club Championship math shows it.

The third thread is the Club Championship engine entering its middle stretch. Natus Vincere and Team Vitality set the pace, but with four points-paying titles live this week, the leaderboard could reshuffle daily. The fourth story is the venue itself: Europe's largest single exhibition complex makes same-day, cross-game spectating realistic for the first time in EWC history.

Pick'em

Make your picks on the EWC 2026 Pick'em. Per-game brackets are linked from each game's hub as they open.

Reminders and notifications

Set match reminders from the homepage or any per-tournament page on Esport Agenda to get a notification 30 minutes before a match starts. Notifications cover broadcasts in your selected language. With four brackets live, the reminders worth setting now are for today's PUBG Grand Finals, the Teamfight Tactics playoff openers, tomorrow's TFT best-of-five grand final, the EA Sports FC 26 playoffs on July 25, and the Street Fighter 6 Last Chance Qualifier bracket.

Closing CTA

Bookmark this guide. We refresh it every morning while the EWC and the EWC Qualifier track are live. For the day's digest, see the EWC daily highlights, and for the full qualification picture, see the EWC Qualifier guide. PUBG opens its Grand Finals, Teamfight Tactics cuts to its playoffs, and we will be on it live, every day, until the closing ceremony on August 23.