Worlds 2026 Final: Gen.G vs Bilibili Gaming Date, Time and Preview
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Gen.G and Bilibili Gaming play the Worlds 2026 final on Saturday, November 14 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The series is best-of-five and starts at 2 PM ET, 8 PM in Paris. Gen.G swept both of their knockout series, and BLG got there by beating T1 3-1 in a semifinal that ended Faker’s run.
Two routes to Brooklyn
Gen.G beat LYON 3-0 in the quarterfinals and Invictus Gaming 3-0 in the semifinals, and GGRecon, citing Hotspawn, says they have dropped just one game in the whole tournament. BLG’s route was harder, with a 3-0 against Dplus KIA and then T1.
| Round | Gen.G | Bilibili Gaming (BLG) |
|---|---|---|
| Quarterfinal | 3-0 LYON | 3-0 Dplus KIA |
| Semifinal | 3-0 Invictus Gaming | 3-1 T1 |
How BLG beat T1
GGRecon’s recap has BLG winning games 1, 3 and 4. T1 took game 2. Oner’s Lee Sin stole a Baron the other side had started.
In game 4, T1 lost three players in an early fight around the Voidgrubs. Faker’s Akali then killed all five BLG players near the 28-minute mark and cut a 6,000-gold deficit to about 1,000. BLG still won the next mid-lane fight, took the Mountain Dragon Soul and closed on Baron, and GGRecon adds that it was the first time T1 had lost a best-of-five knockout series at Worlds to an LPL team.
BLG’s second final in three years
T1 beat BLG in the 2024 final, so this is the organisation’s second final in three Worlds. Win.gg singles out top laner Bin and mid laner Knight as BLG’s key players, and Gen.G’s Swiss Stage record sits in our Worlds 2026 tracker.
Tracker and calendar
Results go into the Worlds tracker, and the next dates are in the esports calendar. The earlier semifinal story is in Bilibili Gaming beat T1 3-1.
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