Worlds 2026 Swiss Round 3, day two: T1 and BLG go 2–1, Anyone's Legend and Team Secret Whales out at 0–3 — Round 4 best-of-threes on 28–30 October from 20:00 UTC

How day four went

Monday was the second half of Swiss Round 3: two best-of-ones between the 1–1 teams and two elimination best-of-threes between the 0–2 teams. T1 and Bilibili Gaming took the Bo1s to join the 2–1 pool, LOS and Team Liquid won their Bo3s 2–0 to stay alive at 1–2, and Team Secret Whales and Anyone's Legend are the first two teams out of Worlds 2026. The results are from LoL Esports' posts on X; the game details below are from Hotspawn's and GosuGamers' recaps.

The four results

• T1 1–0 CTBC Flying Oyster (Bo1, posted 17:40 UTC): CFO's Doggo had the stronger early game and T1 trailed by roughly two thousand gold before a mid-game CFO mistake let the reigning champions turn it — T1 move to 2–1.
• Bilibili Gaming 1–0 Karmine Corp (18:40 UTC): a near-flawless BLG game with Viper's Kai'Sa to the fore; BLG move to 2–1, KC drop to 1–2.
• LOS 2–0 Team Secret Whales (20:40 UTC): TSW led game one until around the 30-minute mark before LOS closed it near 40 minutes; Zest's Kennen was the pick of game two. The LCP's first seed is out at 0–3.
• Team Liquid 2–0 Anyone's Legend (22:43 UTC): a one-sided game one and a closer game two settled by Yeon's Xayah; AL, the LPL's first seed, go home at 0–3 — LoL Esports called the win historic for the LCS champions.

The Round 4 draw

The draw (LoL Esports on X, 22:55–22:59 UTC) splits the twelve remaining teams into six best-of-threes, with a rest day on Tuesday:

• Wednesday 28 October: Movistar KOI vs T1 at 20:00 UTC; LYON vs Invictus Gaming at 23:00 UTC — both 2–1 series, winners through at 3–1.
• Thursday 29 October: CTBC Flying Oyster vs Karmine Corp at 20:00 UTC (1–2, loser out); Bilibili Gaming vs Top Esports at 23:00 UTC (2–1, winner through).
• Friday 30 October: Team Liquid vs LOS at 20:00 UTC; G2 vs Hanwha Life at 23:00 UTC — both 1–2 series, losers out at 1–3.

Start times are 1 pm and 4 pm Pacific, which is 9 pm and midnight CET now that Europe is on winter time — three hours later than the Round 1–3 starts. The losers of the three 2–1 series and the winners of the three 1–2 series meet at 2–2 in Round 5 on Saturday 31 October for the last three quarter-final places; Dplus KIA and Gen.G are already through from their 3–0 runs.

What it means for your climb

• Worlds is played on patch 26.20 while ranked runs 26.21: the picks on stage are a patch behind your queue, and two behind November.
• Phroxzon's 26.22 preview landed the same morning (27 October): Viktor, Smolder and Aurelion Sol among the buffs, Locke, Thresh and Yasuo nerfed, Mel's reflect removed — from 4 November, none of it is visible on stage.
• The Kai'Sa, Xayah and Kennen games are a reminder that the carries still decide Swiss series; in solo queue the same champions run on 26.21 numbers, where Varus bot keeps his 22 October hotfix buff.
• Season 3 ranked ends in early January on our estimate (Riot has not dated it), so the Swiss weeks are the start of the end-of-season push; nothing in this round changes that.

What we are watching

Wednesday's two series (Movistar KOI–T1 opens the round), the Thursday and Friday results, the Round 5 pairings on Saturday 31 October, the quarter-final bracket with the knockouts from 3 November and the final on 14 November, and the full 26.22 preview with numbers.