Nightfall became the only carry in the top ten players by average KDA in the group stage of EWC 2026

PARIVISION offlaner Evgeny Noticed Ignatenko completed the group stage of the Esports World Cup 2026 in Dota 2 with the best ratio of kills, deaths and assists among all participants in the tournament. Statistics are provided on the Datdota portal.

Most of the top 10 in terms of average KDA within the stage were occupied by mid laners and offlaners—four representatives of these positions each. Two more places went to carry Egor Nightfall Grigorenko and support Vitaly Save-Melnik.

The group stage of EWC 2026 took place from July 7 to July 12. All participants completed five best-of-2 series. According to the results of the stage, four teams ended up in the playoffs, eight were eliminated from the tournament, and 12 ended up in the play-offs, where they will compete for the remaining four slots in the final stage.