Tue Oct 27 — Team Liquid beat Anyone's Legend 2-0 on 27 October (KST), and China's 2025 quarter-finalists left the Swiss Stage without a win. In 2024 and 2025, all four teams that went 0-3 came from outside the LCK and LPL.
Tue Oct 27 — In the first two full days of the Swiss Stage, Faker's article was read at twice its usual daily rate in the typical language edition. German, Polish and Spanish rose three to four times; Japanese stayed flat and Korean fell.
Tue Oct 27 — T1 won their single game against CTBC Flying Oyster 14 kills to 6 on 27 October (KST) and moved to 2-1 in the Swiss Stage. In Riot's records for the last two Swiss Stages, 12 teams reached 2-1 and nine went on to the quarter-finals.
Tue Oct 27 — After three rounds of the 2026 Swiss Stage, Korea's LCK has Gen.G and Dplus Kia in the quarter-finals and all four teams alive. China's LPL has none through yet. At the same point in 2024 and 2025, each league had exactly one team through.
Mon Oct 26 — Dplus Kia beat Movistar KOI 2-0 on 26 October (KST) to qualify first. Riot's records for 2024 and 2025 show the first team in went out in a quarter-final once and lost the final once. T1 won both years from fifth and eighth.
Mon Oct 26 — Gen.G lost game 1 to LYON, then won the next two on 26 October (KST) to finish the Swiss Stage 3-0, after Dplus Kia. In 2024 and 2025 the first two teams through came from two different leagues.
Mon Oct 26 — Invictus Gaming beat Hanwha Life 29 kills to 9 on 26 October (KST), and G2 also fell to 1-2. In Riot's records for the last two Swiss Stages, 12 teams reached 1-2 and three qualified, among them T1, the 2025 champion.
Mon Oct 26 — Over the first two Swiss days, the Chinese article on Worlds 2026 drew 1.8 times the English one. Gen.G's Korean page drew 5 of 2,056 reads. CTBC Flying Oyster, from Taiwan, was the most-read team: 6,678.
Sun Oct 25 — Round three runs over 26 and 27 October (KST). Gen.G play LYON and Dplus Kia play Movistar KOI, best-of-three, for the quarter-finals. Hanwha Life meet Invictus Gaming and T1 meet CTBC Flying Oyster in single games.
Sun Oct 25 — Gen.G beat Hanwha Life 23-7 in kills and Dplus Kia outlasted T1 in the longest game of the day, taking the elder dragon after T1 had claimed the soul. China's LPL, winless on day one, won three of its four games.
Sat Oct 24 — In Swiss Stage round one, IG fell to Gen.G, TES to Hanwha Life, BLG to Movistar KOI and AL to Karmine Corp. Korea's LCK went 3-0, including a Dplus Kia comeback from a 0-7 kill deficit.
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