All APAC teams at Esports Nations Cup 2026

With the regional qualifiers coming to a close, the complete list of teams for the Esports Nations Cup 2026 is locked in. In the Asia-Pacific region, three qualifiers were held- South & East Asian qualifier, Southeast qualifier and Oceania qualifier. The South and East Asian closed qualifier featured eight teams including India. The Indian team reached the upper semi-finals before going down 0-2 to Mongolia and 1-2 to South Korea. China knocked down Mongolia to the lower bracket to win the upper final and confirm their main event slot but the latter still advanced to the main event by clearing the lower bracket.

Australia and New Zealand were the only teams in the Oceanic qualifier. Australia took down New Zealand 2-0 to book their main event slot. In the Southeast Asian qualifier, Indonesia cleared the upper bracket without dropping a single map while Vietnam scraped through from the lower bracket.

The Middle East and Central Asia shared a single qualifier which hosted a total of sixteen teams with three main event slots on the line. Kazakhstan and Turkey put up dominant upper bracket runs to advance to the main event while Uzbekistan qualified from the lower bracket.

A total of 24 national teams will head to Riyadh for the A-tier LAN run by the EWC foundation. Esports Nations Cup 2026 will carry a mammoth $1,320,000 USD prize pool and run from 10th November to 15th November 2026. The main event will run round-robin iterations across four groups to send the group winners into the playoffs. A single-elimination bracket playoffs determines the champion.