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Worlds 2026 Swiss Round 4, day three: Los Grandes beat Team Liquid 2–1 and Hanwha Life sweep G2 — the LCS and LEC champions are out, Round 5 deciders on Saturday from 17:00 UTC

Friday's two elimination series at Worlds 2026 sent home two regional champions. Los Grandes, the CBLOL champions, beat Team Liquid Alienware 2–1 after a 47-minute decider, and Hanwha Life Esports swept G2 Esports 2–0 in under 55 minutes of game time. Both winners move to 2–2 and join Movistar KOI, LYON, Bilibili Gaming and Karmine Corp in Saturday's Round 5 — MKOI vs KC at 17:00 UTC, LOS vs LYON at 20:00 UTC and HLE vs BLG at 23:00 UTC, best-of-three with Fearless Draft — where the winners take the last three quarter-final places before the knockouts start on 3 November.

• Where it is: Riot's LoL Esports feed on X posted the results as they happened on 30 October — Los Grandes' win at 22:48 UTC, Hanwha Life's at 00:29 UTC — then the Round 5 draw at 00:40–00:44 UTC and, pinned at 01:12 UTC, the schedule for 31 October. Series statistics are from Liquipedia's match pages; game detail cross-checked with Sports Kyunghyang, GosuGamers and team-aaa.
• Los Grandes 2–1 Team Liquid Alienware (from 20:03 UTC): LOS took game one in 29:52 at 15–7 (Curse 7/0/6 on Trundle), Liquid levelled in 38:01 at 15–8 (Josedeodo's Xin Zhao 5/1/10), and LOS won a 47:16 decider 17–5 with Zest's top-lane Tristana at 10/1/3 — Liquid out at 1–3 despite taking two Barons in game three, LOS to 2–2.
• Hanwha Life Esports 2–0 G2 Esports (from 23:06 UTC): 28:05 at 22–11 and 26:12 at 19–7, seven dragons to none and both Barons; Kanavi (12/4/22 on Lee Sin and Jarvan IV) was the series MVP, Zeka 9/1/15 on Syndra and Swain. G2 drew first blood in game one and took the first tower in game two, and lost both games from about 16 and 21 minutes — the LEC champions out at 1–3, HLE to 2–2.