Bilibili Gaming beat Gen.G 3-1 to win Worlds 2026
Bilibili Gaming are League of Legends world champions after beating Gen.G 3-1 in the Worlds 2026 final in New York, with Knight named Finals MVP.
15th Nov 2026 09:15
Image via Riot Games
Bilibili Gaming beat Gen.G 3-1 to win Worlds 2026
Bilibili Gaming are League of Legends world champions after beating Gen.G 3-1 in the Worlds 2026 final in New York, with Knight named Finals MVP.
15th Nov 2026 09:15
Image via Riot Games
Bilibili Gaming are the League of Legends world champions, after coming from a game down to beat Gen.G 3-1 in the Worlds 2026 grand final in New York on Saturday, November 14.
Mid laner Knight was named Finals MVP, as announced by the official LoL Esports account, capping a run that saw BLG knock out four LCK sides on the way to the Summoner's Cup, with HLE, DK, T1 and finally Gen.G all sent packing.
A Cup that was worth the wait
Gen.G took the opening game comfortably, with Ruler's Corki finishing 7/0/8, but BLG levelled the series in a 53-minute marathon that Dot Esports says was the longest game of the whole tournament, before edging ahead in game three and closing it out in game four. It's BLG's first world title, two years after they lost the 2024 final to T1, and the first for a Chinese team since EDward Gaming in 2021, which also brings an end to four years of Korean champions.
It's a big one for Knight in particular, who'd already won MSI 2023 with JD Gaming and First Stand earlier this year with BLG, and finally gets his hands on the trophy he missed out on in 2024 (Dot Esports points out he's the first Chinese-born mid laner to win Worlds). According to GosuGamers, Bin, Xun, Knight and ON are all first-time world champions while Viper picks up his second, and BLG take home $1 million from the $5 million prize pool, with $800,000 going to Gen.G.
For Gen.G, second place is still their best ever Worlds finish, though that'll be scant consolation for an LCK first seed that came in as one of the favourites, and they're still waiting on a first Summoner's Cup after eight appearances.
If you missed how BLG got here, our report on their semi-final win over T1 covers the series that ended T1's bid for a fourth title in a row.
Well, BLG fans can finally put the 2024 heartbreak to bed, and with First Stand 2027 next up on the international calendar, the rest of the world has a few months to work out how to stop them.
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