HEXVORA take the Naye Khiladi title after a final-day surge past Free Agents
Team Free Agents led BGMI’s Naye Khiladi grand finals for two days. Six matches on the closing evening cost them the title, and second place with it.
Jul 27, 2026
HEXVORA needed one evening to turn the BGMI Naye Khiladi grand finals on its head. They finished the three-day event on 183 points. Zero Ark Official took second on 142, Team Free Agents third on 141, and the side that had led since the opening night ended up 42 points behind the champions.
Level at the top, then not close at all
Free Agents set the pace on 24 July, topping day one with 65 points from 52 eliminations without winning a single match outright. HEXVORA were second that night on 61. A day later both squads had 114 points, Free Agents holding first place on the tiebreak, HEXVORA behind them with 81 eliminations from 12 matches and one Chicken Dinner banked. EXE and Hitman had 26 and 23 of those eliminations between them.
The last day belonged to HEXVORA. They added 69 points across the closing six matches; Free Agents managed 27 and slipped to third as Zero Ark edged past them by a point. For a tournament decided on cumulative scoring across 18 matches, a swing that size in one session is unusual.
Eight thousand entries down to sixteen
Naye Khiladi is NODWIN Gaming’s grassroots event with KRAFTON India, and the name says what it is for: new players. More than 8,000 competitors registered. Round one held 1,024 teams across 64 groups, round two cut that to 256, the semi-finals took 32, and 16 squads reached the finals played online across 24 to 26 July.
“The 16 teams that have reached the Grand Finals have earned their place through skill, consistency and determination,” NODWIN co-founder and chief executive Gautam Virk said before the finale.
X4RCE finished fourth on 137 points and Troy Tamilans Esports fifth on 127, both inside a prize pool of 10 lakh rupees. HEXVORA collected 3.5 lakh of it, Zero Ark 1.8 lakh and Free Agents one lakh, with a further 10,000 rupees set aside for the tournament’s MVP.
Where a result like this leads
Prize money at the bottom of the ladder rarely changes a roster’s life. A verifiable finish does. Indian BGMI has more places to put a breakout team than it did a year ago, and the second half of 2026 is stacked: KRAFTON’s BGMI Showdown starts on 22 September with 48 invited Indian teams and a one crore rupee prize pool, and the BGMI International Cup returns to Mumbai from 30 October to 1 November, another crore on the table with six Indian sides facing five each from South Korea and Japan at the SVP Indoor Stadium.
Those are closed doors for now, filled through the KRAFTON India Esports leaderboard, BGIS and the Pro Series. An open tournament that starts at 8,000 entries is how a roster with no history gets into that conversation. HEXVORA now have a trophy and a points total to point at.