How Many Games Are in the Esports World Cup 2026?

May 24, 2026.

The 2026 Esports World Cup features 24 games across 25 events, with the extra event coming from Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, which runs two separate competitions. It's the largest multi-title esports tournament on the calendar, running from July 6 to August 23, with every game feeding into the season-long Club Championship where the top organisations compete for the biggest prize pool in esports history.

If you're trying to figure out what's playing, who's competing, or what to watch, this is the complete breakdown.

The complete 24-game lineup, in alphabetical order: Apex Legends, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Call of Duty: Warzone, Chess, Counter-Strike 2, Crossfire, Dota 2, EA Sports FC 26, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, Fortnite, Free Fire, Honor of Kings, League of Legends, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Overwatch 2, PUBG: Battlegrounds, PUBG Mobile, Rocket League, Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege X, Teamfight Tactics, Trackmania, and VALORANT.

That's shooters, MOBAs, battle royales, fighting games, strategy, racing, and chess all under one roof. Few events in any sport ask audiences to jump between genres that quickly.

Three titles are making their first appearance at this edition of EWC.

Fortnite returns to the lineup, this time through the Fortnite Reload Elite Series. Rather than using the standard Battle Royale mode or custom UEFN maps seen in previous years, the 2026 competition will be played in Fortnite Reload, a faster and more condensed version of the Battle Royale format.

Trackmania is the one completely new addition, and honestly, it feels like a natural fit. The time-trial racing game joins through a multi-year partnership and brings a format built entirely around precision. No upgrades, no randomness, just every player racing the same car on the same track. Thousandths of a second decide everything, which makes it one of those esports that becomes unexpectedly stressful to watch.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and EA Sports FC 26 replace previous editions, following each franchise's annual release cycle.

StarCraft II and Rennsport are absent from the 2026 lineup.

StarCraft II's exclusion sparked discussion among RTS fans and marks the end of the game's run at EWC, at least for now. Rennsport, which had previously appeared in early conversations around the event, also does not feature in the final list.

The 2026 Esports World Cup carries a total prize pool of $75 million, up from $71.5 million in 2025.

Of that, $30 million goes to the top 24 organisations competing in the Club Championship, with the champion club taking home $7 million. The remaining amount is spread across the individual tournament prize pools.

There's one catch. To win the Club Championship, an organisation must take first place in at least one event. Finishing high across multiple games helps, but without an actual tournament win, the top prize stays out of reach.