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GodLike missed the BGMS finals by three points, and 16 other teams start in Delhi on Friday

The BGMI Masters Series Season 5 Grand Finals run from 4 to 6 September with a crore on the line, and India’s best-known BGMI org will be watching it.

Sep 1, 2026

Team Tamilas finished joint bottom of the BGMS league, and first on the table that decides the Grand Finals

BGMS Season 5 runs two leaderboards side by side and they disagree completely. Tamilas and Elite Nova are level on 171 points at the bottom of one, an...

Aug 31, 2026

Genesis and Myth both finished on 391, and only one of them is in the BGMS Grand Finals

Six teams qualified directly from the BGMS Season 5 Super Weekends. Genesis finished level on points with the last of them and start the playoffs inst...

Aug 28, 2026

Genesis Esports won two of six games and lead BGMS Super Weekend 2 by 47 points

Six games at the NODWIN Gaming Arena on Friday were enough to settle who is winning Super Weekend 2. The interesting part of the BGMI Masters Series l...

Aug 28, 2026

Global Esports are one win from a Champions slot, and they have eight days to wait for it

Global Esports have come through the VCT Pacific Stage 2 upper bracket without losing a series. Beat Nongshim RedForce on 4 September and they are at...

Aug 27, 2026

Global Esports had never won a map against DRX, and they just knocked them into the lower bracket

Five previous meetings, all of them lost 0-2. On Wednesday in Busan the Indian org finally got one, and the top two teams in Stage 2 go to Champions.

Aug 26, 2026

Orangutan were invited straight into Super Weekend 1, and now they have six games left to stay in BGMS

GodLike and Orangutan both skipped the opening fortnight of BGMI Masters Series Season 5. Only one of them is through to Super Weekend 2, and League W...

Aug 25, 2026

Myth won four chicken dinners and finished sixth, and Gladiators won three and missed the cut

Eight teams came through BGMS Season 5’s first Super Weekend in Delhi, and the ones who won the most matches were not all among them.

Aug 23, 2026

India picked four Esports Nations Cup squads this summer, and the tournament has moved to November 2027

The Esports Foundation has pushed the first Esports Nations Cup back a full year. India had already named a BGMI roster, settled a chess pair and qual...

Aug 21, 2026

One point decided the BGMS Week 2 cut, and Revenant XSpark finished on the wrong side of it

League Week 2 of BGMI Masters Series Season 5 ended on Thursday with Apex Gaming on top and eighth place settled by a single point. Super Weekend 1 be...

Aug 20, 2026

BGMI’s next 1 crore tournament has no open qualifiers, and the 48 teams are already decided

KRAFTON India’s BGMI Showdown 2026 runs from 22 September to 18 October with a one crore rupee prize pool. Every team in it was invited on this year’s...

Aug 17, 2026

KRAFTON is bringing BGMI Lite to India, five years after it killed the last one

KRAFTON India has confirmed BGMI Lite for release by the end of 2026, but has not said whether it copies the global PUBG Mobile LIGHT model or the old...

Aug 15, 2026

Food poisoning cut the PUBG Mobile World Cup to four matches, and India’s two teams are 14th and 15th

Around 20 of the 64 players at the PMWC Grand Finals in Paris reported illness on Friday, and the last two matches of day one were called off. GodLike...

Aug 14, 2026

Genesis win BGMS Week 1, and the team with the most chicken dinners finished seventh

Revenant XSpark won three matches in League Week 1, more than anyone else in the field. They ended up seventh. Team Apex Gaming won none and finished...

Aug 12, 2026

Orangutan and GodLike are both in the PMWC Grand Finals, and no Indian team had got there before

India has never had a team in the final stage of a PUBG Mobile World Cup. It now has two, after Orangutan took second in Group A and GodLike third in...

Aug 11, 2026

Revenant XSpark lead BGMS Season 5 after day one, on a table that is not what it looks like

Eighty-nine points and two chicken dinners put Revenant top of the opening standings. Two thirds of the field played half as many matches, which is th...

Aug 10, 2026

BGMS Season 5 starts today without GodLike and Orangutan, and Paris is the reason

The BGMI Masters Series opens its fifth season with 24 teams and a one crore rupee prize pool, and with India’s two PUBG Mobile World Cup teams handed...

Aug 9, 2026

GodLike finish third in Group B as both Indian rosters reach the PMWC Grand Finals

Both Indian rosters in Paris are into the PMWC Grand Finals, and neither of them is on the 24-team list for the domestic league that starts on Monday.

Aug 9, 2026

India’s BRICS esports trip to Moscow ends four days before the Asian Games open

ESFI has named its squads for the BRICS Esports Championship in Moscow in September and the Global Esports Games in Los Angeles in December. The Mosco...

Aug 7, 2026

Orangutan were 10th of 16 on day one, and they have finished second in Group A

Orangutan closed the PMWC 2026 group stage second on 91 points and go straight to the Grand Finals in Paris, skipping the Survival Stage. Two Chicken...

Aug 6, 2026

Orangutan win the last game of day one and finish two points off a PMWC Grand Final place

India’s Orangutan were 10th and drifting at the PUBG Mobile World Cup in Paris until the final match of the day, when a Chicken Dinner with 10 kills l...

Aug 4, 2026

GodLike and Orangutan give India two teams at a PUBG Mobile World Cup for the first time

India sends two teams to a PUBG Mobile World Cup for the first time. GodLike Esports and Orangutan open on separate days in Paris, with 3.025 million...

Aug 3, 2026

BGMS Season 5 starts on 10 August, in the middle of the World Cup in Paris

The fifth BGMI Masters Series runs from 10 August to 6 September with 24 teams. The prize pool has not been announced, and League Week 1 opens while I...

Jul 31, 2026

India take two slots to the PUBG Mobile World Cup, and a month in Nepal to get ready

GodLike and Orangutan both qualified for the PUBG Mobile World Cup in Paris, which starts on 6 August. Preparing for it meant leaving the country, bec...