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Hanwha Life Sweep G2 to Stay Alive at Worlds 2026. Next Is Bilibili Gaming, Who Knocked Them Out in 2024
Hanwha Life beat G2 Esports 2-0 on 31 October (KST) and moved to 2-2; G2 go home at 1-3. On 1 November Hanwha Life play Bilibili Gaming for a quarter-final place, two years after losing to them 1-3 in the 2024 quarter-finals.
The table this is written from: /worlds-2026
Hanwha Life Esports are still in the 2026 World Championship. They beat G2 Esports 2-0 at 08:00 Korea time on 31 October, an elimination match between two teams at 1-2, and move to 2-2. G2 leave the Swiss Stage at 1-3.
Hanwha Life had lost their second and third matches, to Gen.G and Invictus Gaming, after opening with a win over Top Esports. They are the fourth Korean team still standing; Dplus KIA, Gen.G and T1 are already through.
The two games, from Riot’s live stats
| Game | Kills | Gold | Towers | Dragons | Barons |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22–11 | 59,151–49,906 | 9–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 |
| 2 | 19–8 | 54,025–46,992 | 6–3 | 4–0 | 1–0 |
Hanwha Life first. G2 took one tower in game 1 and no dragon in either game.
Bilibili Gaming, again
Hanwha Life’s last match of the Swiss Stage is against Bilibili Gaming at 08:00 KST on 1 November. The winner goes to the quarter-finals and the loser goes home.
| Year | Hanwha Life’s Swiss record | Knocked out by |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-1 | Bilibili Gaming, 1-3, quarter-final |
| 2025 | 3-1 | Gen.G, 1-3, quarter-final |
| 2026 | 2-2 so far | — |
Bilibili Gaming went on from that 2024 quarter-final to the final. They are at 2-2 this year after losing 1-2 to Top Esports on 30 October.
Where 1-2 teams have ended up
Twelve teams stood at 1-2 in 2024 and 2025. Three reached the quarter-finals, all of them at 3-2: Bilibili Gaming in 2024, who reached the final; Weibo Gaming in 2024, a semi-final; and T1 in 2025, who won the title. The other nine went home. Three teams that came back is a short list, not a trend, and it says nothing about who wins on 1 November.
Who read Hanwha Life
From 24 to 29 October (UTC), the Hanwha Life Esports article was read 2,924 times across six Wikipedia editions. Chinese was the largest edition, 1,037, ahead of English (969) and French (504). The Korean edition had 213; most Korean fans look teams up on Namuwiki, which does not publish reading counts.
The three deciders on 1 November and how past deciders went are in the six teams at 2-2. Every team’s record is on our Worlds 2026 page.
Results and game statistics from Riot Games’ official LoL Esports schedule and live stats feed. Wikipedia reads from the Wikimedia Pageviews API, user traffic only. Times are Korea Standard Time unless marked UTC.
Where these numbers come from
Sources
- Riot Games (LoL Esports schedule) — Official schedule and match details (esports-api getSchedule, league 98767975604431411; getEventDetails, matches 115660540726095081 and 115660540726095093): G2 Esports 0–2 Hanwha Life Esports, best-of-three, 31 Oct 2026 08:00 KST; Hanwha Life Esports v Bilibili Gaming, 1 Nov 2026 08:00 KST; every Swiss Stage match of 2024, 2025 and 2026 and the 2024 and 2025 knockout results. Read 31 October 2026, 13:10 KST. · https://lolesports.com/en-US/schedule
- Riot Games (LoL Esports live stats feed) — Final frames of games 1 and 2 (game ids 115660540726095082, 115660540726095083): kills, total gold, towers, dragons, barons, champions. · https://lolesports.com/en-US/schedule
- Wikimedia Pageviews API — Daily user reads of the Hanwha Life Esports and G2 Esports articles in every language edition, 24 to 29 October 2026 (UTC). 29 October was the last day published when we read it. · https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article
What we checked
- Game 1 (G2 blue): Hanwha Life won; kills 22–11, gold 59,151–49,906, towers 9–1, dragons 3–0, barons 1–0.
- Game 2 (Hanwha Life blue): Hanwha Life won; kills 19–8, gold 54,025–46,992, towers 6–3, dragons 4–0, barons 1–0.
- Hanwha Life in 2026: beat Top Esports, lost to Gen.G, lost to Invictus Gaming, beat G2. G2 in 2026: lost to Dplus KIA, beat LOS, lost to Top Esports, lost to Hanwha Life.
- Hanwha Life's earlier Swiss Stages: 2024 3-1, lost the quarter-final 1-3 to Bilibili Gaming; 2025 3-1, lost the quarter-final 1-3 to Gen.G.
- Teams that stood at 1-2 in 2024 and 2025: twelve; three qualified, all at 3-2: Bilibili Gaming 2024 (reached the final), Weibo Gaming 2024 (semi-final), T1 2025 (won the title).
- Wikipedia, 24 to 29 October 2026: Hanwha Life Esports 2,924 reads across 6 editions, Chinese 1,037, English 969, French 504, Korean 213. G2 Esports 6,958 across 17, English 2,649.
What we left out, and why
- 2023, which the official schedule feed does not cover from the start of the Swiss Stage.
- Reading on 30 and 31 October, not yet published by Wikimedia when we wrote.
- Predictions for 1 November.
The data behind this
Written from the same data
- T1 Beat Movistar KOI 2-0 to Reach the Worlds 2026 Quarter-Finals at 3-1, the Record They Won With in 2024
- Top Esports Beat Bilibili Gaming 2-1 to Reach the Worlds 2026 Quarter-Finals. T1 Ended Their Last Two Runs
- Worlds 2026 on Wikipedia: Chinese Readers 18,717, English 10,246. Korean Wikipedia Barely Reads the LCK
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