NS RedForce won BMIC 2026 by 82 points, and Gladiators were three points off a PMGC spot with one match left
The Korean side led after every day in Mumbai and took the PMGC 2026 Gauntlet slot, while India’s best team, Gladiators Esports, finished fourth after two late Chicken Dinners.
Nov 1, 2026
NS RedForce went into the last match of the BGMI International Cup 67 points clear, and they won that one too. The South Korean side finished the 18-match Grand Finals at The Dome, SVP Indoor Stadium in Mumbai on 233 points, 82 ahead of DRX, with five Chicken Dinners and 148 finishes. Both were the most of any team at the event. The title is worth ₹30 lakh from the ₹1 crore prize pool and a place in the PMGC 2026 Gauntlet.
The fight for the only other PMGC place was much closer, and late on Sunday it had an Indian team in it.
Gladiators’ late charge
Gladiators Esports had dropped out of the title race by Match 14 on the final day. Then they won Match 15 on Erangel with 23 points, 13 of them from finishes, and added a second Chicken Dinner on Miramar in Match 17 with 17 points. That took them from sixth to third with one game left.
The runner-up slot carries a place in the PMGC 2026 Group Stage, and going into Match 18 three teams were within four points of it. DRX had 145, Gladiators 142 and Dplus KIA 141. Gladiators scored two points in the last match. DRX scored six and Dplus KIA eight, which left DRX second on 151, two clear of Dplus KIA, and Gladiators fourth on 144.
Seven points short, after three Chicken Dinners. Gladiators were the best of the six Indian teams and take a share of the prize pool, but no Indian side has a PMGC spot from this event.
Team Outrage had been the leading Indian team for most of the three days. Their Chicken Dinner on Rondo in Match 13, worth 19 points, lifted them to fourth before a run of low scores dropped them to fifth on 125. K9 Esports were sixth on 116. Team 8Bit finished ninth, Blitz x Epigrotive tenth and Team SouL twelfth on 87.
How NS RedForce won it
NS RedForce led after every day. They were a point ahead of Dplus KIA on 72 after Day 1 and stretched that to 23 points on Day 2, helped by a 28-point Chicken Dinner on Miramar in Match 12 that was the highest single-match score of the event. On the final day they added 105 more, with wins in Match 14 and Match 18.
The finishes tell most of the story. Their 148 were 49 more than any other team managed, and on finish points alone they would have placed fourth in the final standings, ahead of Gladiators. XZY was named MVP.
There is a twist in who finished second. DRX won BMIC in 2025, with HyunBin named MVP, and in January NS RedForce signed HyunBin and Soez from them. DRX’s rebuilt roster got the second PMGC slot anyway, through a 24-point Chicken Dinner on Erangel in Match 16 that moved them from third to second.
Where that leaves India
Last year India’s True Rippers finished runners-up to DRX. This year the top three were all Korean, and the best Indian finish came from a team that needed a big final match and got two points. Gladiators showed on Sunday that an Indian side can win games against this field. Doing it across 18 matches is the part that is still missing.