Bilibili Gaming captured the first international League of Legends title in the LPL organisation's history with a 3-1 victory over G2 Esports in the First Stand 2026 final at Riot Games Arena in Sao Paulo on 22 March 2026. Top laner Chen 'Bin' Zebin was named OPPO Player of the Series after a tournament-defining performance through the deciding game.
The scoreline understated the swing inside a final that opened with Europe's standard-bearer establishing early control. Game 1 was a deathless display from G2 mid laner Rasmus 'Caps' Borregaard Winther, whose lane priority and side-lane rotations dragged the European side into a clean opening map. Caps, the most decorated mid laner in European League of Legends history, briefly looked capable of dragging G2 to a maiden international major.
BLG's response was incremental rather than explosive. Game 2 stabilised the bot lane around Park 'Viper' Do-hyeon, the LCK-trained AD carry who had already become the first player in League of Legends esports history to win First Stand in back-to-back years after lifting the trophy with Hanwha Life Esports in 2025. Game 3 swung on a dragon-soul fight that BLG converted into a baron-empowered close-out, levelling the series at 2-2.
The deciding fourth map turned on a single dragon pit fight in the mid-game. With the soul on the line and both teams stacked around the elemental, Bin caught G2 bot laner Hans Sama out of position on the flank, eliminating him and turning a contested skirmish into a five-to-four mid-game brawl. BLG transitioned that pick into objective control and never relinquished the map. Bin's flanking play was the moment that defined the series and the series MVP award.
For BLG, the title arrives as the culmination of a multi-year build-out. The franchise reached the Worlds 2023 final, where it lost to T1, and was a perennial LPL semi-finalist before the addition of Viper to its 2025 roster. The First Stand format, introduced by Riot Games for 2025 as a season-opening international showcase, has now produced two different LCK-tied championships, with Viper as the through-line.
The regional implications are immediate. The LPL secured a seeding benefit for this year's Mid-Season Invitational, with the region's second seed advancing directly to the Bracket Stage. The benefit, designed to reward Riot's flagship First Stand event, hands the LPL a structural advantage at MSI for the rest of the calendar year and adds to the LCK and LPL's joint dominance of the international circuit.
For G2, the runner-up finish is the strongest international showing for European League of Legends in two seasons, but the gap remains. The European side has now lost three consecutive international finals stretching back to 2023, and the path to ending Europe's international title drought, last broken in 2011, remains as steep as ever.
BLG's celebration also marked a moment for Brazilian League of Legends fandom. Riot's decision to rotate the Sao Paulo arena, traditionally a CBLOL hub, into the First Stand circuit produced a sold-out final and one of the loudest Western Hemisphere League of Legends finals on record. With CBLOL teams underrepresented at major international events since the franchise's 2023 restructure, the Sao Paulo audience adopted both finalists for the night.
MSI 2026 is now the next big test. Bilibili Gaming will arrive in the Bracket Stage as one of the favourites; G2 will need a deep run through Play-Ins. Bin and Viper, the through-line of BLG's title run, will be the names to track.
