League of Legends Worlds 2026 Grand Finals: Schedule, prize pool, & where to watch

China’s BiliBili Gaming and Korea’s Gen.G Esports are throwing down to determine 2026’s League of Legends world champion team.

This coming weekend, Riot Games, League of Legends fans, and the best teams of the bunch this year, BiliBili Gaming and Gen.G Esports, will descend on New York City’s Barclay Center to play the League of Legends Worlds 2026 Grand Finals, crowning this year’s global champion in the popular esport. If you want to know where to watch, when it goes down, and what’s on the line, we have all of that covered here.

League of Legends Worlds 2026 Teams & Schedule

The League of Legends Worlds 2026 Grand Finals are set to begin broadcast on Saturday, November 14, 2026 at 8 a.m. PT / 11 a.m. ET. It will be hosted on the Riot Games Twitch channel (also embedded above), The LoL Esports YouTube, and the LoL Esports website. The final clash of titans is between South Korea’s Gen.G and China’s BiliBili, which were both invited and qualified through the Swiss Stage leading up to the Worlds Finals. Gen.G has gone almost undefeated so far in its 2026 Worlds run, dropping only one game to Mexican squad LYON.

BiliBili has had a scrappier run through Worlds, dropping a match to Spain’s Movistar KOI, and then dropping a 1-2 match against fellow Chinese squad Top Esports. Nonetheless, it has stayed alive to get to the Finals where the BiliBili will see if it can scratch Gen.G’s winning streak.

League of Legends Worlds 2026 Prize Pool

According to Liquidpedia, the overall prize pool of League of Legends Worlds 2026 is $5,000,000. Much of the payouts to teams that have already placed in previous rounds of the competition have been sorted. Gen.G and BiliBili will be playing for the final two placements, for which first place will receive $1 million and the second place will receive $800,000. Here are the official payouts based on placement.

• 1st ($1,000,000): ???
• 2nd ($800,000): ???

• 3rd-4th ($400,000)

  • T1
  • Invictus Gaming

• 5th-8th ($300,000)

  • Dplus
  • Karmine Corp
  • LYON
  • Top Esports

• 9th-11th ($175,000)

  • Hanwha Life Esports
  • LOS
  • Movistar KOI

• 12th-14th ($125,000)

  • CTBC Flying Oyster
  • G2 Esports
  • Team Liquid

• 15th-16th ($90,000)

  • Anyone’s Legends
  • Secret Whales
• 17th ($50,000): MVK Esports
• 18th ($40,000): FURIA
• 19th ($30,000): Cloud9

Stay tuned to the League of Legends topic as this weekend’s Grand Finals competition kicks off.

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