Esports World Cup 2026 Week 2 Crowns LYON, Team Vitality, Dplus KIA And PVISION As Champions

Free Fire and MLBB winners

LYON delivered the Free Fire title after a strong finals run, breaking the EWC elimination record with 33 kills and a Booyah in game five before winning in game seven. The South American side moved through the Survival Stage after missing direct finals entry and earned $300,000 (~INR 2.8 crore) plus a place at the Free Fire Global Finals 2026.

BenjamÍn “Gamezking” Perez was named Sony MVP after 60 eliminations and 71 knockdowns. He said, “I’m really happy. It’s been a rough couple of months for me, dealing with my anxiety,” and added, “I never really talked to anyone about this besides my family, every single trip is a struggle for me. I’m really, really happy to be Champions with my team. This is LYON.”

Team Vitality won the inaugural Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Women’s International after the tournament received official global championship recognition. The Indonesian roster, playing under Team Vitality, lost the first map but beat Natus Vincere PH 4-2, earning $150,000 (~INR 1.4 crore), 1,000 Club Championship points and a second EWC win for the roster.

Viorelle “Vival” Chen claimed her second EWC MVP award. She said, “I’m really, really happy with this award, and the result of this year’s MWI together with my team. This year’s MWI is held in Paris, which is the home ground of Team Vitality, and we dedicate this win to everyone, to our fans. It was a blast.”

League of Legends and Dota 2 finals

Dplus KIA won League of Legends after beating Karmine Corp in Paris, despite the crowd backing the French side. The Korean team came through the lower bracket, defeating FURIA, G2 Esports and EWC 2025 winners Gen.G, and then beat Karmine Corp for their first LAN win of the season and first major title in almost six years.

Sin “Smash” Guem-jae was named MVP with an 8.1 KDA. Dplus KIA’s Oh “Career” Hyung-suk said, “In the early phase of the bot lane, I initially realized that our first kills came out there in Game 3, we’re on 2-0, it’s a great start and I’m on a champion that I’m confident on. That’s the moment I felt I won,” while T1 lost 2-1 to Gen.G in the third-place match.

PVISION completed the weekend’s finals by beating Team BB 3-1 in Dota 2. After losing game one, PVISION won the next three, with Evgeniy “Noticed” Ignatenko named MVP after a run in which the team dropped only three games. Team Yandex beat Vici Gaming 2-0 in the third-place match.

Andrey “Dukalis” Kuropatkin said, “Thank you for everyone watching, cheering for us. It’s very important for us, and we are trying our best only because of you,” after the Dota 2 final. The result moved the Club Championship race on, with NAVI leading on 1,750 points, Team Vitality second on 1,400, All Gamers Global third on 900 and Team Falcons in the top ten.