EWC playoffs Fantasy open to play

Try your hand at predicting the lopsided bracket to win big prizes.

m0NESY is the most-picked "golden card" Esports World Cup 2026 - Playoffs Format You can create your teams on the Fantasy page here .

Sixteen-team single-elimination bracket with third place decider.

Grand final is BO5, all other matches are BO3.

Teams

Things to note

• Somewhat unusually, the first quarter-final will happen right after the end of the round of 16.
• The third place decider guarantees that all teams making semi-finals will play out two rounds.

Player prices & pick stats

• The bracket draw produced a lopsided bracket with Vitality , Spirit , Natus Vincere , and Falcons all being drawn into the bottom side of it. Minor player price adjustments were made to account for that.
• The most popular "golden card" pick is Ilya "⁠m0NESY⁠" Osipov who goes for $235k, the fourth most-picked overall and present roughly on every fifth team. His pick rate is double that of Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut , who goes for the same price, and almost double that of Danil "⁠donk⁠" Kryshkovets , who goes for $240k.
• The second-most picked player is Yasin "⁠xfl0ud⁠" Koç . The Turkish rifler goes for $195k while his team is set to face magic in round of 16, the biggest underdog of the playoffs, and he has shown a strong performance at the event so far with a 1.42 rating. Notably, FUT are set to meet the winner of GamerLegion vs. MOUZ , the latter of which FUT bested in the group stage.

Prizes

• Users can count on Season points and skin prizes, sponsored by Hellcase, as follows.

1. Shadow Daggers | Tiger Tooth (Factory New) 2. AK-47 | Asiimov (Minimal Wear) 3. AWP | Redline (Field-Tested) 4. M4A4 | The Battlestar (Minimal Wear) 5-10. Desert Eagle | Mecha Industries (Factory New)