The ALGS Year 6 Split 2 Playoffs bracket stage concluded on Saturday, November 1, 2026, at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, setting a 20-team field for the Match Point Finals. The $2 million event drew 40 squads competing for the season’s final Championship Points before the ALGS Championship, and the bracket delivered one of the tightest qualification races in recent ALGS history. EA’s official ALGS competition overview confirms the format: 40 teams enter the bracket, and only the top 20 advance to Sunday’s Match Point Finals.

Reigning Champions and Group-Stage Leaders Both Fall

Bracket qualification board for the ALGS Split 2 Playoffs listing Groups A through D with team logos and 'Qualified' tags, including UNLIMIT and DINOS among the 20 advancing teams.
The 20 teams that advanced from the bracket stage to the Match Point Finals, with reigning champions UNLIMIT and group leaders DINOS eliminated. Image: ZETA DIVISION via zetadivision.com

The headline eliminations were UNLIMIT, the reigning Split 1 champions, and DINOS, who had topped the group stage. Both squads failed to accumulate enough points across the bracket rounds to reach the Match Point Finals. DINOS’ exit is particularly striking given their dominance earlier in the event—they entered the bracket as the team to beat after setting a Japanese-region record in group play. Their elimination means no team that led the group stage will contest the title this split.

NRG also missed the final cut. Christopher “sweetdreams” Sexton was heard on voice comms saying, “Listen, no-one else knows we’re in a mental shambles,” a line captured by Insider Gaming’s coverage of the bracket. The exact margin was razor-thin; NRG fell short by a handful of points in a bracket where single placements separated qualifying teams from elimination.

A Bracket Decided by Margins

The Winners Round alone produced a scramble for the final qualifying spots. Forged Wolves secured the last direct berth through a tiebreaker, while Sentinels clawed back through the Loser’s Bracket Final with a late surge. The official ALGS account posted that Sentinels’ Blinkzrr executed a “big brain TP” that vaulted the squad into the top 10 and a Match Point Finals berth—seven places up from where they sat earlier in the day.

The official ALGS account confirmed the bracket structure in a series of posts: the top 10 from the Winners Round advanced directly to the Match Point Finals, while the bottom 10 dropped into Elimination Round 2 for a second chance. Teams that survived Elimination Round 2 joined the direct qualifiers to form the full 20-team field.

The 20 Teams Heading to Match Point Finals

The full roster for the Match Point Finals, as announced by the official ALGS account on November 1:

The list spans every major region and includes a mix of established organisations and smaller squads that ground through the elimination rounds. Team Falcons, Shopify Rebellion, and Team Liquid represent the Western heavyweights; REJECT, NinjasInPyjamas, and All Gamers Global carry the APAC flag; and teams like Crazy Thieves and KINOTROPE CLUB earned their spots through the losers’ path.

How the Match Point Finals Work

The Match Point Finals use a format that rewards consistency and clutch performance in equal measure. A team must first accumulate 50 points across any number of matches to become “match-point eligible.” Once eligible, that team must then win a match—finish first—to claim the title. This means a squad that reaches 50 points early but cannot close out a game can be overtaken by a team that hits 50 later but wins immediately after.

The format is designed to prevent a single hot drop from deciding the championship while still requiring a team to prove it can win when it matters. For viewers, it means the final match of the event is always a genuine winner-takes-all scenario among every eligible team on the lobby.

What This Means for Championship Points

This is the last event in Year 6 that awards Championship Points. The Match Point Finals results will determine which teams qualify directly for the ALGS Championship and which must fight through the Last Chance Qualifier. For squads on the bubble, every placement point in the Finals carries double weight—it is not just about winning the split title but about securing a direct slot at the year’s biggest stage.

For players following the competitive meta, the bracket results offer a useful signal. The teams that survived—particularly those that came through the elimination rounds—did so under the current legend-ban and POI-draft rules introduced this split. The compositions and drop strategies that carried squads like Sentinels and Forged Wolves through high-pressure elimination matches are worth studying before the meta shifts again next season.