The Worldwide 2026’s Group Stage got here to an in depth with some shocking outcomes, together with Nigma Galaxy advancing on to the Playoffs.
The International (TI) 2026‘s action-packed Group Stage got here to an in depth on Saturday (15 August) as three groups had their campaigns for this 12 months’s Aegis of Champions ended, three extra superior on to the Playoffs, whereas the remaining 10 squads had been pit into the Elimination Stage.
The three groups that did not make it out of the TI 2026 Group Stage embody Jap European underdogs 
HULIGANI, Southeast Asia’s 
OG, and last year’s runners-up in 
Xtreme Gaming.
OG defeated HULIGANI in the 0-3 Elimination Match in Spherical 4, solely to get swept out of the tournament by North America’s 
GamerLegion in Spherical 5. In the meantime, Xtreme’s run came to an end in a 2-0 sweep at the hands of fellow Chinese hopefuls 
Team Resilience.
Event favourites 
TEAM VISION (aka PARIVISION) completed the Group Stage as the highest seed, turning into the primary workforce to safe a spot within the Playoffs with a 2-0 sweep over regional rivals 
Team Spirit in Spherical 4. Western European powerhouse 
Team Liquid had been the second workforce to qualify for the Playoffs after they defeated Eastern Europe’s 
Aurora Gaming within the first Playoff Development Match of Spherical 5. Shock contender 
Nigma Galaxy then secured the third Playoff spot with a massive 2-0 upset over Spirit within the remaining match of the day.
That then leaves Resilience, GamerLegion, Aurora, Spirit, defending champions 
Team Falcons, 
Team Yandex, 
BoomBoys (aka BetBoom Crew), 
Iron Wing (aka 1w Crew), 
Vici Gaming, and 
LGD Gaming as the ten groups that will likely be battling within the Elimination Stage for the ultimate 5 spots within the Playoffs on Sunday (16 August).
TI 2026 Group Stage Day 3 outcomes
Spherical 4
3-0 Playoff Development Match:
- TEAM VISION 2-0 Crew Spirit
2-1 matches:
- Crew Liquid 2-1 Iron Wing
- BoomBoys 0-2 Aurora Gaming
- Nigma Galaxy 2-0 Vici Gaming
1-2 matches:
- LGD Gaming 2-1 Xtreme Gaming
- Crew Falcons 2-1 GamerLegion
- Crew Yandex 1-2 Crew Resilience
0-3 Elimination Match:
Spherical 5
3-1 Playoff Development Matches:
- Aurora Gaming 1-2 Crew Liquid
- Crew Spirit 0-2 Nigma Galaxy
2-2 matches:
- BoomBoys 1-2 Crew Falcons
- LGD Gaming 2-0 Vici Gaming
- Crew Yandex 1-2 Iron Wing
1-3 Elimination Matches:
- Xtreme Gaming 0-2 Crew Resilience
- OG 0-2 GamerLegion
Who will likely be going through off within the TI 2026 Elimination Stage?
The TI 2026 Elimination Stage will pit the ten groups that completed the Group Stage with 3-2 and 2-3 data in a single remaining best-of-three match, with the winners advancing to the Playoffs whereas the losers will likely be eradicated from the match.
Listed below are the matchups for the TI 2026 Elimination Stage:
- Crew Falcons (3-2) vs Vici Gaming (2-3)
- Aurora Gaming (3-2) vs BoomBoys (2-3)
- Crew Spirit (3-2) vs Crew Resilience (2-3)
- Iron Wing (3-2) vs GamerLegion (2-3)
- LGD Gaming (3-2) vs Crew Yandex (2-3)
What’s The Worldwide 2026?
TI 2026 will likely be this 12 months’s iteration of Dota 2’s annual world championship match, happening in August in Shanghai, China. As with earlier iterations of the match, TI 2026 will characteristic a complete of 16 groups that earn their spots within the match by receiving direct invitations or incomes slots by regional qualifiers.
The checklist of directly-invited groups to TI 2026 embody 
Aurora Gaming, BoomBoys (aka BetBoom Crew), 
Team Falcons, 
Team Liquid, Iron Wing (aka 1w Crew), Xtreme Gaming, and 
Team Yandex. In the meantime, the groups that earned their spots by the regional qualifiers embody European qualifier winners 
Team Spirit, TEAM VISION (aka PARIVISION), HULIGANI, and 
Nigma Galaxy, North American qualifier winner 
GamerLegion, Southeast Asian qualifier winner OG, South American qualifier winner 
LGD Gaming, in addition to Chinese qualifier winners 
Vici Gaming and Team Resilience.
TI 2026’s major occasion will likely be hosted within the Oriental Sports activities Middle in Shanghai. Valve first announced that Shanghai will host TI 2026 throughout final 12 months’s world championship match, the place Team Falcons claimed the Aegis of Champions after defeating China’s Xtreme Gaming within the five-game grand finals.
It will mark the second time that Shanghai will host TI after TI 2019, the place Western Europe’s OG turned the first-ever two-time TI champions after defeating Crew Liquid in 4 video games to assert the grand prize of US$15.6 million, out of the US$34.3 million prize pool.
TI 2026 will likely be break up into two phases: the ‘Highway to The Worldwide’ and ‘The Worldwide’ major occasion. The Highway to The Worldwide will likely be a Swiss-style Group Stage from 13 to 16 August, the place the 16 groups will likely be lower right down to the ultimate eight that can play within the sport’s greatest stage from 20 to 23 August in Shanghai’s Oriental Sports activities Middle.
TI 2026’s prize pool follows that of earlier editions, with a US$1.6 million base prize pool that can then be boosted by gross sales of the TI 2026 Compendium.
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