Mark July 15-20 on your calendar and book the Shenzhen visa-free stopover–PUBG Mobile Global Open 2026 drops a record $18 million prize pool into the Universiade Center, and last-year tickets sold out in 11 minutes.
Swap thumb sleeves for arena noise: Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Mid-Season Cup moves to Jakarta Istora Senayan on May 28-June 1, doubling its 2025 purse to $5 million and adding a double-elimination bracket that guarantees every team at least 12 televised games.
Free-to-watch doesn’t mean free-to-farm–Honor of Kings International Championship opens qualifiers on March 9 across 12 servers, and the top 16 squads will fly to Shanghai for a $10 million finals split on November 7-9; MVP earns a direct 15 % cut, no org deductions.
Miss those and you still have two global launches: Clash Royale League World Finals lands in Helsinki on August 30 with a $2 million pot, while Call of Duty: Mobile World Championship finals hit Los Angeles on October 10-12, offering $3 million plus 2027 beta access for every player who reaches stage five on the ranked ladder this July.
January–April LAN Qualifiers & Global Kick-offs
Circle 18-21 January on your calendar and fly into Helsinki; the PUBG Mobile Global Open 2026 starts with a 32-team LAN qualifier at the Helsinki Halli. 2 000 000 $ in prize money and four direct seeds to the summer finals are on the line, so book the 120 € weekend pass before 10 December–last year it sold out in 36 h.
February belongs to Mobile Legends. The MPL-Split Kick-off Cup relocates to the 6 000-seat Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre, 9-11 Feb. Every team that finishes top-six keeps its franchise slot for the next season, which explains the bloodbath meta and 1.9 million peak viewers in 2025. General-admission tickets start at 12 $, but the VIP pods with USB-C charging and free boba cost 45 $ and disappear first.
Honor of Kings launches its first truly global series this year. The International Qualifier Series hits São Paulo Centro de Eventos Pro Magno 1-3 March, 3 500 000 $ pool, double-elim bracket, 144 Hz iPad Pros bolted to every station. Expect ticket drops on 20 January; cheaper seats run 25-30 Reais and you can refund up to 48 h before the show–handy for Brazilians who still need visa approval for later international legs.
Need a passport stamp and some lower-tier drama? The Snapdragon Mobile Masters League hosts open BYOD qualifiers in Mexico City (15-16 Mar) and Cairo (22-23 Mar). Entry is 15 $, top two from each site join the closed LAN in Austin, Texas 5-7 Apr where hotels are bundled with the player pass for 220 $. Last year the Cairo underdogs placed third overall, so these mini-events punch above their weight.
Western fans usually skip April, but the Wild Rift Champions Spring Super Cup in Seattle is worth the trip. 16 teams, 1 500 000 $, played on stage at the Seattle Convention Center with the Puget Sound as backdrop. Riot guarantees at least two matches per day on the 4 K center screen; side-stage stations run parallel for overflow series, so you never hit a content drought. Three-day fan pass is 65 $, single-day 25 $, and you can trade unused days on the official Swap-Hub up to 24 h in advance.
Visa heads-up: Brazil, Egypt and Mexico qualifiers issue invitation letters within five business days if you upload passport + flight receipt. Do it early–embassies in São Paulo and Cairo close for national holidays 15-17 March.
- Cheapest hostel within walking distance of Helsinki Halli: 28 € bunk, 8-bed dorm, includes sauna shift 06:00-08:00.
- Bangkok traffic is brutal; take the BTS to Bang Na station, exit 4, then the free shuttle every 15 min.
- São Paulo venue food is overpriced; grab pastel for 7 R$ outside Gate C before security.
- Austin LAN bundle hotel (Hampton) runs shuttles every 40 min; UberPool often ends up slower on match days.
Stream-only? Twitch drops rotate by region: Nordic gives PUBG Mobile permanent gun skin on 19 Jan; LATAM HoK qualifier awards 200 tokens redeemable for the new Sun-Brazilian Poseidon skin. Link your account before the first broadcast–drops are not retroactive.
Pro tip: combine trips. Fly São Paulo → Mexico City → Austin and you hit three qualifiers on one visa waiver if you hold a US B1/B2. Total flight time 18 h, cost 640 $ booked eight weeks out, and you snag at least 40 % of the yearly qualifier storylines before May even starts.
MLBB M6 World Championship qualifiers schedule by region
Circle 14–28 July on your calendar if you want to watch Southeast Asia decide its five M6 slots. The Philippines’ MPL S14 playoffs double as the national qualifier–top two teams go straight to the world stage, while third place enters the Last-Chance Gauntlet on 3 August. Indonesia runs a twin-track system: MPL ID champs secure the first ticket on 21 July, but the four semifinalists regroup for a single-elimination bracket on 27–28 July to lock in seeds two and three. Malaysia and Singapore share a combined bracket that starts 15 July; Singapore RSG Slate and Malaysia Homebois must finish top-three of the eight-team regional cup or miss the global cut entirely.
Latin America heats up 5–11 August. Brazil Liga Brasileira closes its summer split on 6 August, and the champion immediately flies to Kuala Lumpur for bootcamp. The CBLOL Wildcard, a four-team invitational, runs 9–11 August and gifts one extra slot; RRQ and Keyd Stars already scrim six nights a week to prepare. In the north, Mexico, Argentina and Chile co-host the Copa América Sur on 8–10 August–top two book tickets, third place drops to the intercontinental play-in.
CIS and Turkey share a single qualifier 19–21 July in Istanbul. Eight invited rosters play best-of-three double-elimination; the final three join the M6 group draw. Ukraine Team Spirit is undefeated in scrims, but Turkey fast-push meta forced three roster swaps across the region last month, so expect fireworks on day one.
MENA Road to Kuala Lumpur starts 1 August with the Galaxy Rift Cup in Cairo. Twelve teams from Saudi, Egypt, Morocco and Iraq battle in a round-robin; top four enter knockout semis on 4 August. The champions earn a fully-paid bootcamp in Johor, while second and third qualify for the play-in. North Africa ping averages 9 ms on the tournament server, so expect early-game aggression and 12-minute lord calls.
Wild-Card Gauntlet closes the calendar 30 August–1 September in Tokyo. Four unseeded teams–one each from South Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania–fight for the final world-slot. India GodLike tops the open qualifier ladder with a 78 % win rate, but Japan Sengoku Gaming hosts the event, giving them stage-side booths and zero jet-lag. Tickets go on sale 10 July at 10 a.m. JST, sell out in minutes, and the entire showdown streams live on YouTube with English, Indonesian and Portuguese commentary.
PUBG Mobile Global Open 2026 prize split and team cap
Book your flights for 17-19 July and register before 15 May; only 64 squads enter, 16 per region, and the last-chance qualifier fills the final four slots on 20 June. Early sign-up secures a seeding advantage in the Swiss stage, so lock in your roster the moment transfers open.
The $3 000 000 pool divides 45 % to winners, 20 % to runners-up, 12 % to third, 8 % for fourth, then 5 % down to eighth; every team that reaches the quarter-finals earns at least $60 000. MVP pockets an extra $100 000 fan-vote bonus funded by in-game graffiti sales, so stream your scrims and rally votes.
Organizers cap each roster at four starters plus one substitute; mid-tournament switches cost 10 % of current winnings and must complete within a two-hour window after the last match of the day. Bring a coach, but only two staff members can stand behind the players during matches to keep stage clutter low.
Knock-out stages run best-of-six on Erangel, Miramar and the new 2×2 desert-rural hybrid map, Los Vientos, with a hard 22-minute ceiling per round to fit the broadcast window. Tie-breaker order: total chicken dinners, average placement, then total kills; after that, a single sudden-death tiebreak on Sanhok decides who moves on.
Taxes are handled at source: 8 % for South-Korea-based players, 15 % for most others, and the prize desk sends the remainder in USDC within 72 hours of the trophy ceremony. Keep your wallet address updated in the TO portal; any correction later triggers a $500 processing fee and a 14-day delay.
Wild Rift Icons 2026 early-stage venue list and ticket tiers
Book your flight to Singapore now: early-stage group play lands at the 12,000-seat Singapore Indoor Stadium from 17-22 August, followed by the double-elimination bracket at Bangkok 15,000-seat Impact Arena on 26-30 August. Both venues sit on major MRT lines (Stadium and Impact Challenger stops), so you’ll roll from hotel to seat in under 25 minutes. Insider tip: Singapore grandstand sections 104-106 and Bangkok lower-bowl blocks A3-A5 give you the caster-desk view for the same price as the upper tiers–grab them before the resale bots do.
| City | Venue | Dates | Ticket Tier | Price (SGD/THB) | Perks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singapore | Singapore Indoor Stadium | 17-22 Aug | Weekday Pass | SGD 48 | Upper bowl, QR loot drop |
| Singapore | Singapore Indoor Stadium | 17-22 Aug | Weekend Pass | SGD 78 | Lower bowl, meet-greet lottery |
| Bangkok | Impact Arena | 26-30 Aug | Single Day | THB 900 | Upper bowl, on-stage shoutout |
| Bangkok | Impact Arena | 26-30 Aug | Finals VIP | THB 4,500 | Courtside, after-party access, gift bag |
If you miss the Singapore window, pivot to the Bangkok leg–Impact releases an extra 1,000 single-day codes 48 h before each session via its Thai-language Telegram channel. Set a phone alert for 20:00 ICT; they sell out in six minutes but resale stays at face value thanks to the government DLT ticket ledger. Pair your pass with the Grab-exclusive "Icons Shuttle" e-voucher (THB 99 round trip) to skip the post-game taxi surge.
September–December Grand Finals & Prize Distribution
Circle 12–15 September on your calendar for the PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2026 in Kuala Lumpur; 16 teams split a US $5 million pool, with the champion hauling off US $1.2 million and direct seeding into the 2027 pro league. Tickets drop 10 July at 09:00 GMT+8 on the official site–grandstand seats sell out in minutes, so set two alarms.
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang wraps its season 30 November–6 December at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta. Moonton pools US $1 million, but skin-revenue share pushes the pot to US $3.4 million. The MVP also receives a 24-karat plated MPL medal and a streaming contract worth US $200 k, so every kill literally pays.
Honor of Kings International Championship runs 18–24 November at the Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin. Tencent guarantees US $2 million, yet crowd-funded "battle passes" push the total to US $4.7 million. First-round exits still pocket US $80 k, and group-stage aces earn an extra US $1 k per turret destroyed, keeping early games explosive.
Wild Rift Super Cup lights up Los Angeles 5–7 December; 12 teams share US $2.5 million, with US $1 million to the winner and a guaranteed slot at the next Icons global event. The runner-up bags US $400 k plus 25 % of in-game champion-skin revenue for three months–pick your main wisely.
CoD: Mobile World Championship 2026 final bracket seeding rules
Lock the first four seeds for the region winners: China, Garena, Europe and the Americas; they land straight into the quarter-finals and skip the play-in. Rank every other qualified squad by global championship points earned from 1 March through 15 July 2026; if two rosters share the same total, break the tie with head-to-head map differential, then average kills per game, then the lower average match duration. Print this sheet, circle your team row and track live updates on the official ESL FACEIT Group API–numbers freeze 30 minutes before the opening ceremony, so refresh early.
Seeds 5-12 enter a single-elimination play-in drawn by snaking: 5 v 12, 6 v 11, 7 v 10, 8 v 9. Higher seed picks the entire best-of-five map order except the tie-breaker, so practise Raid Hardpoint and Standoff SnD twice this week; those maps decided 71 % of last year one-sided stomps. Win your play-in and you inherit the bracket slot of whoever you beat–no re-seeding–so an upset can shove you into the easier half alongside China one-loss group. Coaches receive the opponent three most-played maps 24 h beforehand, so prep four pocket strats instead of the usual two and force them onto your comfort picks.
From quarters on it pure double-elimination: upper semi losers drop to lower round 1, grand final is best-of-seven with a one-map advantage for the upper-bracket king. The day-one seeding sticks throughout; if you started 8th and run the lower gauntlet you still show "8" on stream, keeping bet odds juicy and fantasy drafts honest. Save the bracket PDF offline–cell towers inside the Suntec Singapore halls overload every afternoon and you’ll need offline proof when Reddit debates seed fairness at 3 a.m.
Free Fire World Series 2026 prize pool escrow and release dates
Lock 31 July 2026 into your calendar if you expect a payout–Garena deposits the full US$5 million pool into an escrow account with Standard Chartered Singapore exactly 30 days before the first match, and no late additions get accepted after that timestamp.
The prize money moves in four tranches: 40 % within 24 h of grand-final MVP confirmation, 30 % on 15 September once doping and device audits clear, 20 % after every POV replay uploads to the anti-cheat portal (deadline 30 September), and the last 10 % on 30 October when all skin revenue splits finalize.
Teams must supply a SWIFT-IBAN combo plus a verified Wise business tag; if the routing string fails the bank test, the payout pauses and you drop to the back of the queue, a lesson learned the hard way by two LATAM squads last year.
Withholding tax varies by homeland treaty: 0 % for Singapore-registered orgs, 10 % for most EU countries, and 22 % for Indian entities; budget accordingly or your expected US$100 k minimum share can shrink to US$78 k without warning.
Players who switch nationalities after 1 May 2026 must upload a notarized residency certificate within seven days or their winnings stay frozen until the next quarterly review, a rule introduced to stop last-minute flag shopping.
Need a real-world parallel? The same escrow mechanics appeared at the winter sports championships–check how they handled late appeals: https://salonsustainability.club/articles/day-2-wraps-up-at-2026-curling-champs.html.
Coaches and subs receive 15 % of the roster net prize by default; captains can reallocate that slice through the team dashboard until 23:59 GMT on 5 November, after which the portal locks and no further edits are possible.
Mark 15 December on your tracker–that is the hard stop for support tickets; missing it means any unclaimed funds roll back into the 2027 pool, so set automated reminders now and keep your banking details up to date.
Q&A:
When does the 2026 Wild Rift World Championship start, and how much money is on the line?
The Wild Rift World Championship 2026 kicks off on 12 September in Singapore. The base prize pool is $2 million, but Tencent is adding 25 % of global skin sales during the tournament window, so the final number usually lands close to $3 million once the last hit is counted.
Which event has the shortest open qualifier window? I only have one free week next summer.
PUBG Mobile "Pro League Wildcard" opens 2 July at 18:00 UTC+8 and closes 8 July at 23:59. One weekend plus a few weeknights is enough to reach the round-of-512, and the top four squads go straight to the fall regional finals. You need a full roster of six, but subs are allowed, so you can rotate if work gets busy.
Are there any women-only LANs next year, or will I have to grind mixed qualifiers?
There are two. The "Valkyrie Series: Mobile" lands in Berlin 14-16 August with a fixed $400 k pot; registration opens 1 May and takes the first 128 teams. Later, the "Girl Gamer Challenge" runs 11-13 December in Macau smaller $150 k pool, but travel and hotel are paid for every player regardless of placement. Both events are open to trans and non-binary competitors who feel comfortable in a women-centered space.
Reviews
Benjamin
My thumbs still scarred from 2023 qualifiers, I scroll these 2026 pools 7M for a phone game? Kid me welded cans for Nokia Snake. Now Seoul bus fare costs more than the old prize. I’ll sell plasma, fly, crash out at 0-2, wake up howling.
Owen Caldwell
Touchscreen gladiators, 2026 prize pools hit 50M more cash than most real sports. Thumb cramps will decide who buys a beach, who licks wounds. Girls, bet on me; I’ll bet on battery life and a fat thumb condom.
MysticDaisy
My thumbs still buzz from last night thumb-war with a 13-year-old who swore his cat could qualify for the Asia bracket. He lost, the cat yawned, and I pocketed zero dollars exactly 3 000 000 less than the girl who will lift the Seoul cup in October. I’ll be watching in a lavender face mask, sipping oat cocoa, pretending the screen glare is stardust and not just retinal damage. If they can split a purse that fat without splitting their manicures, I can at least mute group chat and cheer.
Olivia Brown
Hey, which 2026 mobile tourneys will let me queue solo but still pocket team-style cash, and where do I sign my girlfriends up for the biggest loot without burning PTO got the secret calendar?
Ella
My palms bled last June when our roster shattered; I still taste the metallic echo of defeat. Now these 2026 pools half million, maybe more burn hotter than my ex new ring. I’ll pawn my guitar if I must; pixels don’t ask rent.
Ethan Morrison
2026 mobile prize pools so fat my ex could bounce quarters off them still can’t buy back the hours I wasted watching thumb-warriors miss buttons for a living.
Christopher
Mobile esports 2026: same kids, new skins, prize pools fatter than their sleep schedules, and we’ll still pretend it sport.