Saturday, November 14, 8:00 p.m. Paris time (2:00 p.m. in New York): the Barclays Center in Brooklyn hosts the Worlds 2026 final, the League of Legends world championship. Gen.G (South Korea) faces Bilibili Gaming, known as BLG (China), in a BO5, a best-of-five series. The trophy will go neither to T1, the three-time defending champion, nor to Karmine Corp, for whom this was a first Worlds.
Our October 10 article detailed the full schedule and the Swiss format of the tournament. This one focuses on the final: the start time, the matchup, the road of both teams and the French-language channels.
Worlds 2026: a Korea versus China final in Brooklyn
Jeux.ca (Hervé Atangana, article updated November 9) and GeeksLands (November 9) give the same time: 8:00 p.m. in France, Belgium and Switzerland. The six-hour gap with New York comes from the US clock change on November 1. EsportActu had already announced this slot on October 23. The lolesports.com schedule page did not list the final at the time of writing: check the time on Riot’s site before clearing your evening.
| Final | What the sources say |
|---|---|
| Date | Saturday, November 14, 2026 |
| Time | 8:00 p.m. Paris time (2:00 p.m. in New York) |
| Location | Barclays Center, Brooklyn (New York) |
| Format | BO5, first to three games |
| Matchup | Gen.G (LCK, South Korea) vs. Bilibili Gaming (LPL, China) |
BLG ended T1’s run of three titles
T1 had won Worlds 2023, 2024 and 2025, the latest edition with a 3-2 final against KT Rolster in Chengdu, making that club the first to win three titles in a row, according to Inven Global. A fourth in a row would have been unprecedented. BLG denied it at Worlds 2026, in the semifinal: 3-1 on Sunday, November 8 in Allen (Texas), according to Inven Global (Arra Shin), which calls it a revenge two years in the making. In 2024, T1 had beaten BLG 3-2 in the final, GeeksLands points out.
In detail, Fragster (John Parker) notes that T1 took only the second game, after a Baron steal with Oner’s Lee Sin, and that BLG closed out the fourth game after 37 minutes. The site adds that T1’s unbeaten streak against Chinese teams in knockout rounds, going back to Faker’s first title in 2013, comes to an end.
On the other side, Gen.G did not drop a single game in the knockout stage: 3-0 against LYON on November 4, then 3-0 against Invictus Gaming on the 7th. Jeux.ca stresses that the club is back in a world final for the first time since its 2017 title, under the name Samsung Galaxy. BLG, for its part, had beaten Karmine Corp in the Swiss stage and won the March First Stand in São Paulo, against G2 (3-1), again according to GeeksLands.
| Team | Quarterfinal | Semifinal |
|---|---|---|
| Gen.G | 3-0 vs. LYON (November 4) | 3-0 vs. Invictus Gaming (November 7) |
| BLG | 3-0 vs. Dplus KIA | 3-1 vs. T1 (November 8) |
Where to watch the Worlds 2026 final in French
According to EsportActu (Aymeric Ferréol), the official French broadcast goes to OTP, on Twitch and YouTube. LoL Esports approved four French co-streamers on October 14: Kameto, Skyyart, Trayton and Zaboutine. A co-stream is the same match commented by a content creator over the official footage. EsportActu specifies that nothing guarantees each of them covers every match, and GeeksLands writes that OTP has broadcast the whole competition so far without confirming its presence for the final. The list of co-streams for the final is not published on the pages we consulted.
The official English broadcast remains free: the riotgames Twitch channel, the LoL Esports YouTube channel and lolesports.com.
Karmine Corp stops in the quarterfinal, at its first Worlds
KC came through the Worlds 2026 Play-In by beating Cloud9 3-2, then MVK Esports 3-0, according to EarlyGame (Florian Frick, October 19). In the Swiss stage, it finished with 3 wins and 2 losses: wins over Anyone’s Legend, CTBC Flying Oyster and Movistar KOI (2-0 in the last round), losses to LYON and BLG, according to GosuGamers.
The quarterfinal on Friday, November 6 against T1 ended 3-1. KC took the third game, the longest of the tournament, and is one of five teams out of eleven to have won a game off T1 at this stage, notes win.gg (Naerlyn Théophile, November 7). The site presents it as the tournament’s last Western representative.
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