The Esports World Cup 2026 runs from July 6 to August 23, one of the largest events on the competitive calendar. This year it moved from Riyadh to Paris, held at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, after organizers cited regional security concerns. If you want to follow it from anywhere in the world, here is where to go and why each source is worth your time.
The official streams (free)
Every one of the event’s tournaments streams live and free. The official EWC Twitch channels carry each game title, often with multiple language options running in parallel, which matters given that players from more than 100 countries are competing.
The official Esports World Cup channel on YouTube mirrors most of that coverage and is the better choice if you want to catch up after the fact. Broadcasts are archived there, so you can watch finished matches on your own schedule across time zones.
Schedules and brackets
With 25 tournaments across 24 titles, keeping track of what is on is the real challenge. Liquipedia’s EWC 2026 page is the most reliable free resource for schedules, brackets, and results, maintained by a community of editors and updated as matches finish.
It covers everything from Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and League of Legends to VALORANT, PUBG Mobile, EA Sports FC 26, Street Fighter 6, and Tekken 8. If you only follow one game, its per-title pages let you ignore the rest.
Context and numbers
For the bigger picture, Esports Charts tracks viewership figures and peak audiences across the event. It is useful if you care about which titles are actually drawing crowds rather than just which ones have the biggest prize pools.
On that subject, the total prize pool sits above 75 million dollars this year, with 30 million tied to the overall Club Championship. Those figures are current as of July 2026 and come from the organizer’s own announcements.
If you want to attend
For readers in or near Europe, tickets and the on-site schedule are handled through the official Esports World Cup website. The Paris venue hosts competition arenas, broadcast areas, and fan activities across the full seven-week run, so single-day attendance is an option rather than an all-summer commitment.
For everyone else, the free streams are the point. You lose nothing meaningful by watching from home, and the multi-language coverage makes this one of the more accessible major events to follow globally.