Worlds 2026 Bracket Predictor

All 16 teams start together and are paired by record each round: 0-0 in round 1, then 1-0 and 0-1, and so on. A team advances to the playoffs as soon as it reaches three wins, and is eliminated at three losses. It ends with two 3-0 teams, three 3-1 teams and three 3-2 teams going through, and two 0-3, three 1-3 and three 2-3 teams going out.

At the real event, teams on the same record are drawn at random. To show you a full bracket before the draw happens, this tool pairs them by pool order instead: an earlier pool faces a later pool, and within the same pool teams are ordered LCK, LPL, LEC, LCS, LCP then CBLOL, avoiding rematches where it can. So from round 2 on, your bracket may not match the official one exactly.

In reality the quarterfinals are drawn, mixing the 3-0 teams with the 3-2 teams. This tool draws them by a fixed seed rule instead. It takes the two 3-0 teams as A1 and A2, the three 3-1 teams as B1 to B3 and the three 3-2 teams as C1 to C3, then sets qf1 = A1 vs C3, qf2 = B1 vs C2, qf3 = A2 vs C1 and qf4 = B2 vs B3. That keeps the two 3-0 teams apart until the final.

Swiss rounds 1 and 2 are best-of-one. In round 3, the 2-0 and 0-2 matches are best-of-three while the 1-1 matches stay best-of-one. Rounds 4 and 5 are best-of-three, and the quarterfinals, semifinals and final are all best-of-five.

The final is on November 14, 2026 at Barclays Center in New York (November 15 KST). The Swiss stage plus the quarterfinals and semifinals are played in Texas. The Swiss stage runs in US local time from round 1 on October 23 through round 5 on October 31, the quarterfinals are November 3 to 6 and the semifinals are November 7 to 8.

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No. It is an unofficial fan tool. Team names and abbreviations are trademarks of their owners, and no team logos are used. Schedule and format details are taken from publicly available information.