Bilibili Gaming beat T1 3-1 to reach the Worlds 2026 final

Bilibili Gaming ended the greatest dynasty in League of Legends history on Sunday night in Allen, Texas, beating T1 3-1 in the World Championship semifinal and sending the three-time defending champions home. The win puts BLG into the Worlds 2026 final against Gen.G on November 15 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and ends T1's bid for a fourth straight title, a feat no team has ever achieved.

Played at the Credit Union of Texas Event Center on November 8 local time, November 9 in East Asia, the series was closer than the scoreline suggests. T1 had chances in three of the four games, but BLG, built around Bin, Xun, Knight, Viper and ON, found an answer every time T1 threatened to take control. The 68-47 kill tally shows how consistently BLG won the fights that mattered.

Knight sets the tone as BLG take game one

T1 struck first, with Faker and Oner roaming to the bottom lane to support an attack on Viper and ON, and Keria's Rakan securing first blood. BLG took control around the 15-minute mark, when Xun secured the Rift Herald on Naafiri and Knight's Orianna landed a huge ultimate for two kills as BLG killed three T1 players in the exchange.

Around 27 minutes Bin's K'Sante held the front line in a mid-lane fight and Knight added two more kills as BLG lost one player and eliminated four. Knight finished with an 8/0/9 line as BLG won the kills 18-6, and the Nexus fell at roughly the half-hour mark.

Oner's Baron steal drags T1 level

T1 answered in game two. Oner, on Lee Sin, stole Baron Nashor at about 21 minutes, T1 secured Dragon Soul and Elder Drake, and Doran's Olaf and Faker's Syndra ran the map. Faker finished 4/0/13 as T1 won the game 22-10 in kills in about 32 minutes to level the series at 1-1.

Viper and the game-four escape

Game three stayed competitive. Oner, on Jarvan IV, helped T1 take first blood in the bottom lane, and Faker helped remove Bin and Knight at a dragon. BLG recovered in the top side, where Xun's Pantheon flanked from behind and ON's Nami restricted T1's movement, giving Viper's Ezreal room to deal damage. Viper finished 7/1/8 as BLG won 19-10 in kills, secured Dragon Soul and Baron, and moved ahead 2-1.

Game four was the heartbreaker. BLG opened with Renekton for Bin, Skarner for Xun, Viktor for Knight, Ashe for Viper and Seraphine for ON, and raced to a 6-0 kill lead after a one-sided fight at the Void Grubs around eight minutes. The gold gap stretched to roughly 6,000, and the series looked over.

Then Faker, on Akali, produced the comeback. Around 27 minutes Oner started a fight, Viper was taken down, and T1 eliminated all five BLG players before securing Baron, wiping out the gold deficit. For a moment another famous T1 escape looked on. BLG held their nerve: Viper's Guardian Angel bought time, BLG broke a mid-lane inhibitor, secured Mountain Dragon Soul and another Baron, and Xun caught Oner to open the final push. The Nexus fell at about 37 minutes, BLG winning the kills 21-9.

Three streaks end in one night

The defeat ends more than one run. T1 had won Worlds in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and no team had ever won four in a row. Their run of reaching the final every year since 2022 is also over, stopping at four after losing the 2022 final to DRX and beating Weibo Gaming, BLG and KT Rolster. The third streak surprised many fans most: T1 had never lost a knockout best-of-five to a team from China's LPL since their first Worlds in 2013. Thirteen years of history went with this result.

For BLG, it is revenge for the 2024 Worlds final, lost to T1 3-2, and this win sends them back to the final for the second time in the team's history. BLG had already beaten T1 elsewhere in 2026, at the Mid-Season Invitational and the Esports World Cup, but the Worlds breakthrough had been missing. Faker did not look for excuses afterwards. "Overall, I think the opponent was better prepared than we were," he said. "We couldn't play the game the way we had planned."

T1 still leave with one extraordinary record intact: at least the semifinals in all 11 World Championships they have entered. But the 2026 campaign ends among the final four, with 400,000 dollars for their joint third-fourth finish.

What comes next: BLG against Gen.G

BLG have already secured at least 800,000 dollars, with 1 million waiting for the champion. Their route began unevenly in the Swiss stage, with a loss to Movistar KOI, wins over Team Liquid Alienware and Karmine Corp, a defeat to Top Esports, and a qualifying win over Hanwha Life Esports, before a 3-0 quarterfinal sweep of Dplus KIA. BLG also won the First Stand Tournament in 2026 and finished second at the Mid-Season Invitational.

Gen.G swept Invictus Gaming 3-0 in the other semifinal, and stand as the LCK's last hope after T1's exit. The final, on November 14 at 2 p.m. Eastern time in New York, sets up a mid-lane duel between Knight and Gen.G's Chovy, two of the best mid laners in the world, with one of them about to lift the Summoner's Cup for the first time. BLG have already proved they can rebuild an advantage after losing a major fight and a Baron; in Brooklyn, they may need that quality once more.