--- title: League of Legends Worlds 2026 Odds: Gen.G vs. BLG description: Gen.G faces Bilibili Gaming in the League of Legends Worlds 2026 final after BLG eliminated Faker and T1. See the odds and why Chovy is favored to win his first world title. canonical: https://time.com/partner-content/prediction-market/league-of-legends-worlds-odds/ author: Annie Nader article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2026-11-12T23:31:35.886Z article:modified_time: 2026-11-12T23:31:36.105Z article:section: Prediction Markets og:title: League of Legends Worlds 2026 Odds: Gen.G vs. BLG og:description: Gen.G faces Bilibili Gaming in the League of Legends Worlds 2026 final after BLG eliminated Faker and T1. 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Benjamin Cremel—Getty Images by [Annie Nader](https://time.com/author/annie-nader/) Prediction Markets Analyst Nov 12, 2026 11:31 PM UTC Catching a five-on-five game at Barclays Center this weekend runs about $3,000\. No, it's not June, and the Brooklyn Nets have not miraculously made the NBA Finals (you can see Julius Randle and Co. for the [price](https://seatgeek.com/brooklyn-nets-tickets?schedules=home) of an overpriced sandwich so long as LeBron James isn't coming to town). The _League of Legends_ World Championship, known as Worlds, concludes in Brooklyn on Saturday in front of 17,000 fans who either purchased tickets within a minute of their release or faced resale listings at nine times face value. The annual tournament, organized by _League of Legends_\-maker Riot Games, is the culmination of the professional season. Worlds began in 2011 with eight teams competing for $100,000 in front of 200 spectators. Fifteen years later, the prize pool has grown to $5 million, and the final has graduated to venues like London's O2 Arena and, now, Barclays Center. For the uninitiated, _League of Legends_ is a five-on-five strategy video game in which each team tries to destroy the other's Nexus, the central structure of its base, while defending its own. The Worlds final is a best-of-five series, with each game running around 30 minutes. About as many people play _League of Legends_ each month as watch the Super Bowl each year. The game currently attracts 1[30 million monthly active users](https://gameboost.com/blog/league-of-legends-player-count) and peaked with [180 million](https://gameboost.com/blog/league-of-legends-player-count) in 2022, more than 50% of whom were firing up their PCs from China. Even more people watch other people play: fans spent [132.9 million hours](https://escharts.com/tournaments/lol/2025-world-championship-worlds-2025) watching Worlds 2025\. Forty-three countries held watch parties for the final, including at [more than 900 theaters](https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/worlds-watch-parties-2025) in China. This year's monthlong competition brought together 19 teams from six regions. Two remain. One without dropping a knockout game. The other after ending the defending champion's three-year reign. Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok, one of [TIME's 100 Most Influential People in Sports](https://time.com/collection/time100-sports/2026/lee-faker-sang-hyeok/), is widely considered the best esports player of all time. He and T1 have won a record six Worlds, including three straight. Bilibili Gaming (BLG) ended Faker's title streak in the semifinals. Now it faces a mid-laner still chasing his first—and prediction-market traders think he's due. ## League of Legends Worlds Odds Below are the [League of Legends World Championship odds](https://polymarket.com/event/worlds-2026-winner ), per Polymarket.  More than $14 million on Polymarket and [$4 million on Kalshi](https://kalshi.com/markets/kxlol/league-of-legends/kxlol-worlds26) have been traded on Worlds 2026\. Both prediction-market platforms price it the same way: Gen.G is favored to win Worlds 2026 at 63%, with Bilibili Gaming (BLG) trailing at 37%. The market is expecting Gen.G mid-laner Jeong "Chovy" Ji-hoon to put the "can't win the big game" narrative behind him. An [esports expert panel voted](https://www.sheepesports.com/us/articles/league-of-legends-worlds-2026-top-20-players/en) Chovy the best player at Worlds 2026 entering the tournament. He's won six _League of Legends_ Champions Korea titles but has fallen short in each of his seven previous Worlds appearances. This time around, Chovy is trying to remember that video games are supposed to be fun. After clinching his first finals appearance, he told reporters, "[Looking back, there wasn't a single Worlds where I played just to enjoy myself. I was always filled with expectations, pressure, and nervousness](https://labs.invenglobal.com/articles/28312/this-years-chovy-is-different)." [Surrendering to anxiety's inevitability](https://labs.invenglobal.com/articles/28312/this-years-chovy-is-different) has been a fruitful mantra this tournament. The locked-in Gen.G squad swept each of its opponents in best-of-five series in the knockout round and could become the first team ever to bring out the brooms in the quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals at Worlds. History doesn't favor a quick finish, though, as four of the past five finals went to a deciding fifth game. Plus, BLG has already proved stronger than its previous odds suggested, at one point priced as low as 5.5% to win Worlds 2026 before taking down T1\. The payouts aren't worlds apart—$1 million for the winning team and $800,000 for the runner-up—but only the champions get personalized skins, custom looks for the game's characters, and a cut of the proceeds when fans purchase them. Riot Games reportedly [shared 30% of the revenue](https://x.com/InvenGlobal/status/2069420810704425364) from the "Ascended Warriors" skins with T1\. Regional bragging rights are at stake, too. Korean or Chinese teams have won every Worlds since 2013\. Those countries have met in six Worlds finals, with Korea taking five of them and Gen.G favored to make it six. Barclays Center will crown a champion this weekend. No nets needed. 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