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Top Esports Beat Bilibili Gaming 2-1 to Reach the Worlds 2026 Quarter-Finals. T1 Ended Their Last Two Runs
Top Esports came back from a game down against Bilibili Gaming on 30 October and joined Invictus Gaming in the quarter-finals. The LPL went from no qualified teams after three rounds to two. T1 knocked Top Esports out in 2024 and 2025.
The table this is written from: /worlds-2026
Top Esports are in the quarter-finals of the 2026 World Championship. They lost the first game to Bilibili Gaming at 08:00 Korea time on 30 October, then won the next two to take the series 2-1 and finish the Swiss Stage at 3-1.
A day earlier Invictus Gaming beat LYON 2-1 to qualify at 3-1 too. After three rounds China’s LPL had no team through; after four it has two. Bilibili Gaming drop to 2-2 and play once more on 1 November.
The three games, from Riot’s live stats
| Game | Winner | Kills | Gold | Towers | Barons |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bilibili Gaming | 21–6 | 62,797–48,937 | 10–1 | 1–0 |
| 2 | Top Esports | 13–10 | 72,327–69,206 | 9–6 | 1–0 |
| 3 | Top Esports | 17–3 | 60,395–49,051 | 11–2 | 1–0 |
Figures are winner first. Game 1 was one-sided for Bilibili Gaming, and game 3 was one-sided the other way: Bilibili Gaming took two towers and three kills. Game 2 was the close one, about 3,000 gold apart.
Top Esports and T1
This is the third year in a row Top Esports have come through the Swiss Stage. The last two ended against the same team.
| Year | Swiss record | Knocked out by | Round |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3-1 | T1, 0-3 | Quarter-final |
| 2025 | 3-2 | T1, 0-3 | Semi-final |
| 2026 | 3-1 | — | — |
T1 also qualified at 3-1 this year. Whether the two meet again depends on the draw, which had not been published when we wrote.
How many quarter-finalists each league has had
| Year | LCK | LPL | Others |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | 4 | 1 (LCS) |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 | 2 (LCP, LEC) |
| 2026 so far | 3 | 2 | 0, three places left |
Leagues are each team’s home league in Riot’s team list. Three places are still open, and Bilibili Gaming can take one of them.
Who read Invictus Gaming
On 29 October (UTC), the day Invictus Gaming qualified, the Chinese edition of its Wikipedia article was read 773 times, about 18 times its usual 43. The English edition, normally the larger of the two, had 266. Top Esports’ reading for its own qualifying day was not yet published.
Every team’s record and the language that reads each one is on our Worlds 2026 page. The last day of the Swiss Stage is set out in the six teams at 2-2.
Results and game statistics from Riot Games’ official LoL Esports schedule, live stats feed and team list. 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 115660540726095069 and 115660540726095065): Bilibili Gaming 1–2 Top Esports, best-of-three, 30 Oct 2026 08:00 KST; LYON 1–2 Invictus Gaming, 29 Oct 08:00 KST; every Swiss Stage match of 2024, 2025 and 2026 and the 2024 and 2025 knockout results. Read 31 October 2026, 07:40 KST. · https://lolesports.com/en-US/schedule
- Riot Games (LoL Esports live stats feed) — Final frames of games 1 to 3 (game ids 115660540726095070, 115660540726095071, 115660540726095072): kills, total gold, towers, dragons, barons, champions. · https://lolesports.com/en-US/schedule
- Riot Games (LoL Esports teams) — Home leagues from Riot's team list (esports-api getTeams), read 31 October 2026. · https://lolesports.com/en-US/schedule
- Wikimedia Pageviews API — Daily user reads of the Invictus Gaming article in all 8 language editions, 1 to 29 October 2026 (UTC). Usual day = median of 1 to 13 October. · https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article
What we checked
- Game 1 (Bilibili Gaming blue): Bilibili Gaming won; kills 21–6, gold 62,797–48,937, towers 10–1, dragons 2–2, barons 1–0.
- Game 2 (Bilibili Gaming blue): Top Esports won; kills 13–10, gold 72,327–69,206, towers 9–6, dragons 2–3, barons 1–0.
- Game 3 (Top Esports blue): Top Esports won; kills 17–3, gold 60,395–49,051, towers 11–2, dragons 2–2, barons 1–0.
- Top Esports' Swiss records: 2024 3-1, lost the quarter-final 0-3 to T1; 2025 3-2, lost the semi-final 0-3 to T1; 2026 3-1.
- Quarter-finalists by home league (Riot's team list): 2024 LCK 3, LPL 4, LCS 1. 2025 LCK 4, LPL 2, LCP 1, LEC 1. 2026 so far: LCK 3, LPL 2.
- LPL in 2026: Top Esports 3-1 and Invictus Gaming 3-1 through; Bilibili Gaming 2-2; Anyone's Legend out at 0-3.
- Wikipedia, Invictus Gaming, Chinese edition: usual 43 reads a day, 773 on 29 October (UTC); English: usual 49, 266.
What we left out, and why
- 2023, which the official schedule feed does not cover from the start of the Swiss Stage.
- Top Esports' own reading on 30 October (UTC), the day it qualified: not yet published by Wikimedia when we wrote.
- Quarter-final pairings, not yet drawn.
The data behind this
Written from the same data
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