We now have the full list of rosters attending the Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS) World Championship in Fort Worth.
Last Chance Qualifiers in North America, South America, Europe, and MENA took place over the weekend, deciding the final four spots in the 20-team World Championship.
Rocket League World Championship 2026 teams list
12 teams have qualified directly to the Group Stage of the competition, representing the highest-ranked teams from the biggest regions, as well as Twisted Minds as the highest-ranking MENA team and Wildcard as the Oceania tiebreaker.
Group Stage teams:
- Karmine Corp
- Gentle Mates
- Team Vitality
- Ninjas in Pyjamas
- Man City Esports
- NRG
- Shopify Rebellion
- Spacestation Gaming
- MIBR
- FURIA
- Twisted Minds
- Wildcard
Four teams will make it through the eight-team Play-In gauntlet to qualify for the 16-team GSL Group Stage. Group winners of each of the four groups will make it to the Upper Bracket quarter-finals, while the 2nd and 3rd placed teams will advance to Lower Bracket Round 1.
Play-In teams:
- Virtus.pro
- Team Falcons
- TSM
- Five Fears
- Mate y Tapa
- R8 Esports
- FUT Esports
- Bigodes
Virtus.pro, Team Falcons, TSM, and Five Fears all made the RLCS World Championship Play-In stage via their respective region rankings.
Rocket League World Championships Last Chance Qualifiers decide final spots
The remaining four rosters had to fight through brutal Last Chance Qualifiers (LCQs), which saw in some cases hundreds of teams be whittled down to a single qualifier.
The European qualifier recorded a startling 681 entrants, with Mate y Tapa winning the contest, consisting of the former Synergy pair of Lautaro Francisco ‘ajg’ Gusinsky and Ivan ‘Dorito’ Ruiz Jiménez alongside former Twisted Minds player Sergio ‘AtomiK’ Pérez Cortés.
R8 Esports’s roster of Abdullah ‘Abdullah’ Alsanie, Ghazi ‘Ghaazi’ Al-Otaibi, and Mohammad ‘M7md’ Almutairi made it through the MENA LCQ, with Bigodes making it through the SAM quali.
The North America LCQ was perhaps the most gruelling and the most thrilling, as Gen.G narrowly defeated Gen.G to make the Grand Final while FUT Dispatched M80.
In the end, though, FUT’s excellent form proved too much for Gen.G, defeating the roster 4-1 to claim their place at the Rocket League World Championship.
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Darragh is an Esports Journalist for Insider Gaming specialising in Counter-Strike. He loves to explore how esports teams work, or why they very often do not.
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