On Saturday, November 14 at 8 pm Paris time, the League of Legends Worlds final is played in Brooklyn. In Villeurbanne, right next to Lyon, France, fans can watch it together: Lyon e-Sport 2026 screens it on a big screen at Pôle Pixel, with French caster Zaboutine on the mic, to close a day of tournaments open to the public from 10 am. Entry costs €15 and the evening comes at no extra charge.
Everything in this article comes from the organizing association, which sent us its schedule by email on November 11, from its press release and from its event page (in French). This coverage is free: kami-labs.fr received no payment.
Lyon e-Sport 2026 screens the Worlds final at 8 pm
The evening is a watch party: the match is shown live in the hall and a caster hosts it on site. Here, that caster is Zaboutine, a familiar voice of French League of Legends broadcasts, so the commentary is in French. The association plans a slot from 8 pm to around midnight, depending on how long the series lasts.
Gen.G (South Korea) faces Bilibili Gaming, known as BLG (China), in a best-of-five. The two teams’ runs, the end of T1’s streak and where to watch the match are covered in our article on the Gen.G vs BLG final. For the tournament format and Karmine Corp’s results, see also our piece on Worlds 2026.
One thing to get right when booking: access to the watch party is included in the Saturday ticket, but you have to tick the matching option at checkout. Seats are limited.
Saturday, November 14: the schedule hour by hour
Three parts shape the day. The tournaments take the stage from opening time, the Guill Games Minecraft final takes over in the late afternoon, then the hall switches to Brooklyn. As of November 11, the association had not published match-by-match times for its tournaments.
| Time | What’s on |
|---|---|
| 10 am | Doors open to the public. League of Legends and VALORANT tournaments all day, booths and activities |
| 5 pm | Guill Games 2 final on Minecraft, cast on site by Guill |
| 8 pm | Worlds final watch party, Gen.G vs BLG, cast by Zaboutine |
| Around midnight | End of the evening, depending on the length of the match |
Friday evening opened the weekend with a tournament of Riftbound, the card game set in the League of Legends universe. It continues on Sunday, November 15, a day whose schedule the website does not detail yet.
48 teams on League of Legends, 32 on VALORANT, sold out in three hours
Both competitions come with numbers in the association’s press release. The League of Legends tournament at Lyon e-Sport 2026 gathers 48 teams, or 240 players, for a €10,000 prize pool. The game returns to the lineup after nearly six years away. On the VALORANT side, 32 teams and 160 players compete for €6,000. Last year, the title went to WIP Esports.
Registration opened on October 7 at 8 pm. According to the association, every team slot was gone in under three hours, and latecomers were sent to a waiting list. Both tournaments are therefore full: from now on, you come as a spectator.
The final stages are played on stage, in front of a hall the organizers put at close to 600 people. The field mixes amateur, semi-professional and professional teams, outside their official calendar. The 2025 edition, in Rillieux-la-Pape, drew 256 players, 2,000 spectators and more than 400,000 online views, again according to the press release.
Guill Games 2: the Minecraft final from 5 pm
Before League of Legends, the stage hosts Minecraft. The Guill Games are a team tournament created by French content creator TheGuill84, which its organizers present as the first of its kind played on LAN, meaning with all players gathered in the same room. Season 2 ends at Pôle Pixel: ten finalists from online qualifiers face off there, and the final is also streamed on Twitch.
| Guill Games | First edition (2023) | Season 2 (2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Sign-ups | More than 4,000 | Open to everyone, online qualifiers |
| Final | 28 teams, 12 challenges, 220 people in the audience | Ten finalists, Saturday, November 14 at 5 pm |
| Prize pool | €12,000 to share | Crowdfunded pot, set up with the association |
As with the watch party, access to this final goes through an option to tick when buying the Saturday ticket, at no extra cost. Details of the competition are on guill.games.
Simulators, virtual reality and Riftbound between matches
An exhibition area surrounds the Lyon e-Sport 2026 stage, and several booths can be tried for free with the entry ticket. AviaSim sets up airliner, fighter jet and submarine simulators, in twenty-minute sessions with sign-up. Fajira runs an introduction to Riftbound of the same length.
The rest of the space is split between a virtual reality booth run by Nec Deus Nec Dominus, 400 Hz monitors to try at ZOWIE and refurbished hardware at Inforea. Two food trucks are announced on site.
Tickets, address and getting to Pôle Pixel
Tickets for Lyon e-Sport 2026 are sold online, on the association’s ticket office (in French). For Saturday evening, it is safer to book before travelling, since the Minecraft final and the watch party depend on the seats left.
| Practical info | What the association says |
|---|---|
| Price | €15 per day, free for children under 7 with an adult |
| Guill Games and watch party | No extra charge with a Saturday ticket, option to tick when booking, limited seats |
| Address | Pôle Pixel, 24 rue Émile-Decorps, 69100 Villeurbanne |
| Public transport | Tram T3 (Gare de Villeurbanne), metro A (Cusset), bus C11 or TB11 (Cyprian-Léon Blum) |
| Dates | From Friday, November 13 to Sunday, November 15, 2026 |
Pôle Pixel lists the routes on its access page (in French). Behind the event is a non-profit association founded in Lyon in 2011, run by around sixty volunteers.
0 Commentaires
Aucun commentaire pour le moment. Soyez le premier à commenter !