League of Legends Worlds 2026 Swiss Stage Day 3: Dplus KIA and Gen.G Advance at 3-0
Day 3 of the Swiss Stage at the 2026 League of Legends World Championship concluded on October 25 at the Credit Union of Texas Event Center in Allen, Texas, with the tournament's first two teams booking their places in the Knockout Stage. Dplus KIA swept Movistar KOI 2-0, and Gen.G reverse-swept LYON 2-1, both finishing the day at 3-0. In the day's two best-of-one matches, Invictus Gaming defeated Hanwha Life Esports and Top Esports defeated G2 Esports.
In the Dplus KIA series, Smash scored the first pentakill of Worlds 2026 on Kai'Sa in Game 1, and Dplus KIA closed Game 2 in about 25 minutes to become the first team through to the knockouts. Gen.G's path was harder: LYON took Game 1 in 35 minutes 49 seconds with a 10-4 kill lead, before Gen.G answered in 26 minutes 36 seconds behind Ruler's 7/2/7 Ashe, then finished the reverse sweep in 31 minutes 59 seconds as Ruler's Ezreal went 5/2/7 and Chovy's Galio 4/2/4.
After three days, Dplus KIA and Gen.G lead the Swiss standings at 3-0; Invictus Gaming, Top Esports, Movistar KOI and LYON sit at 2-1; and Hanwha Life Esports and G2 Esports have fallen to 1-2, one loss from elimination. The remaining Round 3 matches are played on October 26: CTBC Flying Oyster versus T1 and Bilibili Gaming versus Karmine Corp in the 1-1 pool, plus two elimination matches in the 0-2 pool, LOS versus Team Secret Whales and Team Liquid Alienware versus Anyone's Legend, with the losers finishing in 15th-16th place.
The Knockout Stage quarterfinals run November 3-6 in Allen, and the final is set for November 14 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The championship carries a $5 million prize pool, with $1 million to the winning team.
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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