The Esports World Cup (EWC) is a major annual international event that brings together the world's best esports clubs and players across multiple competitive games. EWC 2026 is taking place at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles in Paris, France, and PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS is one of the featured games, with 24 top teams competing for the championship.
Useful Links
Event Tracker – EWC 2026 | Liquipedia – EWC 2026 | Twire – Leaderboards | Twire – Matches
Format
Group Stage:
- 24 teams divided into 3 groups of 8
- 3 match days
- Two groups compete each day (A vs B, B vs C, A vs C)
- 6 matches per day
- Each team plays 12 matches
- Top 16 qualify for the Finals
- Bottom 8 are eliminated
Finals:
- 16 teams
- 18 matches (6 matches per day)
- The Smash Rule applies:
- The Match Point threshold is set after Day 2 at the first-place team’s point total plus 10
- A team must reach the Match Point threshold and then win a subsequent match to become the EWC 2026 Champions
- If no team wins through the SMASH Rule within 18 matches, the champion is determined by the standard overall standings
The tournament features a $2,000,000 USD prize pool, with $228,000 distributed based on Group Stage results and $1,772,000 distributed based on Finals results. An additional $25,000 USD is awarded to the Finals MVP.
EWC 2026 is played on patch 42.1 under v6.0.1 of SUPER.
The full EWC 2026 rulebook can be found here.
Teams
Here are all of the participating teams and their rosters.
| 🇨🇳 17 Gaming | 🇻🇳 AG.AL | 🇰🇷 DN SOOPers | 🇨🇳 Four Angry Men |
|---|---|---|---|
| Group C | Group A | Group A | Group B |
| WenBo | Destroyy | Gyumin | HSmm |
| tiantian | Delwyn | DIEL | Shen |
| Lilghost | Himass | Heaven | WINDah |
| xwudd | Sololzy | Rex | SpaceMan1010 |
| (C) Akuma | (C) DJChip | (C) PLIKHE | (C) AnGin |
| 🇹🇭 FULL SENSE | 🇻🇳 GAM Esports | 🇰🇷 Geekay Esports | 🇰🇷 Gen.G Esports |
| Group A | Group B | Group B | Group C |
| TiGGER | Clories | Parkpro | seoul |
| Belmoth | DuCkHjeUz | EJ | BeaN |
| Thanad0l | TanVuu | Seongjang | diyy |
| Flash | HoangF | AKaN | Salute |
| (C) RUSHIIE | (C) TND | (C) 25ue | (C) LeClo |
| 🇨🇳 JD Gaming | 🇹🇭 MiTH | 🇺🇦 Natus Vincere | 🇨🇳 Petrichor Road |
| Group C | Group B | Group C | Group A |
| Dec12th | Jacob | spyrro | i26v6 |
| nanss | Baren | Feyerist | MMing |
| SuZe | Scappy | Hakatory | Cui71 |
| Cold119 | KISS | boost1k- | 04NB |
| (C) Mif | (C) Rubickz | (C) ALREIN | (C) Leris |
| 🇲🇾 R8 Esports | 🇮🇩 Shadow Esports | 🇹🇭 Sharper Esports | 🇰🇷 T1 |
| Group B | Group A | Group C | Group C |
| Tedeeyy | Setsunaa | ThanawatTH | Heather |
| AJ | Jekzy | Jdaii | Rain1ng |
| empt | Hanzyy | Earthzapalui | EEND |
| 1MBOT | Kamalz | Thunderz | Type |
| (C) SlyDD | (C) shd | (C) CyD | (C) LashK |
| 🇺🇸 Team Falcons | 🇺🇸 Team Liquid | 🇺🇦 Team Nemesis | Team Vitality |
| Group C | Group B | Group B | Group A |
| Gustav | alow | SoseD | QWZYYY |
| Shrimzy | PurdyKurty | Mellman | Lev4nte |
| TGLTN | CowBoi | Staed | Gedrox |
| Kickstart | luke12 | DIFX | hallomybad |
| (C) GUNNER | (C) Xtreme | (C) mclay | (C) HIRUZEN |
| 🇻🇳 The Vicious Esports | Twisted Minds | 🇨🇳 TYLOO | 🇪🇺 Virtus.pro |
| Group C | Group B | Group A | Group A |
| YmCud | xmpl | KKong | Beami |
| pau | BatulinS | Haoskr | Lukarux |
| Taikonn | Perfect1ks | 1ee | curexi |
| SimonT | Lu | OneDragon | NIXZYEE |
| (C) Dyann | (C) TheTab | (C) Jiaoyang | (C) ibiza |
Schedule
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at EWC 2026 takes place from July 21-26 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles in Paris, France.
Group Stage:
- July 21 – A vs B
- July 22 – A vs C
- July 23 – B vs C
Finals: July 24-26
Every tournament day begins at 4am PDT / 7am EDT / 12pm BST / 13:00 CEST / 20:00 KST.
Check out the Event Tracker for more details.
Talent
Meet the talent bringing you all the action on the English broadcast, live from Paris!
Stage Hosts:
Studio Host: The7WG
Reporter: James "Kaelaris" Carrol
Casters:
Analysts:
Watch
Here's where you can watch the tournament:
- Twitch – PUBG Esports
- YouTube – PUBG Esports
- Twitch – Esports World Cup
- YouTube – Esports World Cup
- Official EWC Event Page
Subreddit Resources
- Check out the subreddit sidebar to know exactly when each tournament day is happening. Also check out the Event Tracker for quick access to the whole schedule and all necessary information.
- Discuss the current tournament day and find all necessary information in our daily discussion threads posted on r/CompetitivePUBG during the tournament!
- Support your favorite team by setting a user flair! Click the "edit user flair" button on the r/CompetitivePUBG subreddit sidebar.