Riot Video games has introduced that the League of Legends World Championship 2026 will happen throughout Texas and New York Metropolis.
The season-ending occasion for the League of Legends esports circuit is the primary time the occasion will happen in North America since 2022.
LoL Worlds 2026 Location
Throughout the media day forward of the Worlds 2025 Grand Ultimate between T1 and KT Rolster, Riot Video games revealed that town of Allen, Texas will play host to the Play-In, Swiss stage, and the Playoffs.
New York Metropolis, New York, will host the Grand Ultimate. Particulars on the areas for every section of the match have but to be revealed.
Exterior of the years the place Worlds befell through the COVID-19 pandemic, 2026 will mark the primary time in three years that the match has taken place throughout two cities. In 2023, the South Korean cities of Busan and Seoul hosted every section of the match.
First Stand 2026 Heads To Brazil
Along with unveiling the placement for subsequent 12 months’s World Championship, Riot Video games additionally shared particulars on the second version of First Stand, the primary worldwide match of the 2026 season.
Happening from March sixteenth to twenty second, First Stand 2026 heads to São Paulo, Brazil. Alongside a location, Riot revealed a rise in groups competing from six to eight, together with best-of-five matches during the match.
League of Legends esports is not any stranger to the Brazilian metropolis. In 2017, it hosted the Mid-Season Invitational (MSI), gained by SK Telecom T1.
Mid-Season Invitational 2026 Returns To Korea
MSI heads again to South Korea for the primary time since 2022. The town of Daejeon will host the second worldwide occasion of the 12 months at an unannounced location.
Notably, Riot Video games has but to share the date for MSI 2026. The 2025 version befell in late June and early July.
