Global Esports. Pacific champions.

2026

The 2026 season.

From seventh at Kickoff to the Pacific trophy in seven months, then a first trip to VALORANT Champions.

First Indian org to win an international PC trophy.

Jan to Feb, Seoul
Pacific Kickoff

7th to 8th

Wins over VARREL, ZETA and Gen.G with a new five. GE vs Paper Rex drew more than 482K peak viewers.
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Apr to May, Ho Chi Minh City
Pacific Stage 1

3rd

First top-three finish in VCT Pacific. A 2-1 over Paper Rex in the upper bracket sent GE to Masters.
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June, London
Masters London

9th to 10th

First Masters. Beat FULL SENSE 2-1 at the Copper Box Arena.
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May to July
Esports World Cup

13th to 16th

Qualified through the Pacific qualifier with a 3-2 over Nongshim RedForce, then played the main event.
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Jul to Sep, Busan
Pacific Stage 2

Champions

Platoon took over as head coach in June. Four wins in five playoff series, the first VCT Pacific trophy and the Pacific first seed for Champions.
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Sep to Oct, Shanghai
VALORANT Champions

First appearance

Beat EDward Gaming, the 2024 world champions, 2-0. Out in the group decider against LOUD.
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Pacific Stage 2 Grand Final

3-2

Two maps down to Nongshim RedForce, then Abyss, Lotus and Haven. 6 September 2026, Sajik Indoor Gymnasium, Busan.

11-13Sunset
2-13Split
13-10Abyss
13-5Lotus
13-10Haven

vlr.gg match page

Every match of 2026

UdoTan, Autumn, Kr1stal, PatMen and xavi8k walk out for the Grand Final

Every Pacific team, beaten

World beaters.

In 2026 GE beat every other team in VCT Pacific. Between them, those eleven teams have won four Masters titles.

PatMen of Global Esports smiles as he shakes hands with ZmjjKK of EDward Gaming over a screen reading DEFEAT — Beat the 2024 world champions.
GE 2-0 EDward Gaming, at GE’s first VALORANT Champions. Shanghai, 2 Oct 2026.
Photo: Yicun Liu / Riot Games

3-2

Nongshim RedForce

W, Pacific Stage 2 Grand Final, 6 Sep

Won Masters Santiago 2026

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3-1

T1

W, Pacific Stage 2 lower final, 5 Sep

Won Masters Bangkok 2025

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2-1

Paper Rex

W, Pacific Stage 1 upper semifinal, 8 May

Won Masters Toronto 2025

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2-0

Gen.G

W, Pacific Stage 1, 3 Apr

Won Masters Shanghai 2024

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2-1

KIWOOM DRX

W, Pacific Stage 2 upper round 1, 26 Aug

Third at Champions 2025 and Champions 2022

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2-0

ZETA DIVISION

W, Pacific Kickoff, 29 Jan

Third at Masters Reykjavík 2022

Liquipedia

2-0

Rex Regum Qeon

W, Pacific Stage 1 upper round 1, 7 May

Won Pacific Stage 1 2025

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2-1

FULL SENSE

W, Masters London, 9 Jun

Runner-up, Pacific Stage 1 2026

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2-0

Team Secret

W, Pacific Stage 1, 11 Apr

Top eight at Champions 2021

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2-0

VARREL

W, Pacific Stage 2 upper semifinal, 27 Aug

VCT Pacific, 2026

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2-0

DetonatioN FocusMe

W, EWC Pacific qualifier, 22 May

VCT Pacific partner team since 2023

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For the fans

For the fans.

The nights people still talk about.

GE players lift the Pacific trophy in a storm of confetti

6 Sep 2026, Busan

0-2 down. Then three straight.

Nongshim RedForce took Sunset and Split. GE answered on Abyss, Lotus and Haven to win the Pacific.

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9 Jun 2026, London

First win at Masters

A 2-1 over FULL SENSE at the Copper Box Arena: GE’s first series win at a Masters.

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2 Oct 2026, Shanghai

Beat the world champions

A 2-0 over EDward Gaming, the 2024 VALORANT world champions, at GE’s first Champions.

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29 Aug 2021

Conquerors champions

A 3-2 final over Velocity Gaming, GE’s first big VALORANT title.

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Aug 2019

Contenders Pacific finalists

GE’s Overwatch team reached the Season 2 final and finished second in the Pacific.

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June 2019

A Fortnite World Cup record

162 points for Fa1zzy and Swillium in the World Cup qualifiers. On the recap, the caster: “normally we would have called out the 159 as being the record for score, but Swillium and Fa1zzy were able to break that with the 162.”

Watch the clip on GE’s YouTube

Watch it again

Where they went

t3xtureGE VALORANT, 2022 to 2023
Next: Gen.G

MonyetGE VALORANT, 2022 to 2023
Next: Paper Rex. Now RRQ

ManyaGE BGMI, 2022 to 2023
Now GodLike. BMPS 2026 champion

NakuLGE BGMI, 2022 to 2023
Now Team SouL. BGMI Series 2026 champion

JokerrGE BGMI, 2022 to 2023
Now Team SouL. BGMI Series 2026 champion

kellySGE VALORANT, 2024 to 2025
Next: Team Secret

SkRossiGE VALORANT, 2020 to 2023
Next: Revenant Esports. Now S8UL Esports

AYRINGE VALORANT, 2022 to 2023
Came from XSET, 5th to 6th at Champions 2022

EraserGE Fortnite, 2018 to 2019
Next: DWG KIA

KephriiGE Overwatch, 2018 to 2020
Came from Team Liquid

BenkaiGE VALORANT, 2023 to 2024
Next: Motiv. Now Singapore national team coach

yomanGE VALORANT, 2025
Next: Nongshim RedForce, coach

LightningfastGE CS:GO and VALORANT, 2020 to 2024
Next: Velocity Gaming

HellrangeRGE CS:GO and VALORANT, 2019 to 2025
Next: S8UL, coach, 2025

vlr.gg and Liquipedia, checked 16 Oct 2026

The fans

Watch parties.

Cinemas, bars and live streams full of people in GE colours. Since 2023, wherever GE plays, fans watch together.

A packed cinema hall lit by hundreds of phone torches during a GE watch party — Phone torches up. Miraj Cinemas, Kickoff 2025.

Fans in GE jerseys cheering with blue and green thundersticks — Thundersticks out for GE.

Socials, Mumbai.

A full cinema hall with a GE flag laid out in front of the screen — A full house at Miraj Cinemas.

Kr1stal of Global Esports greets fans in the crowd at VALORANT Champions Shanghai — Kr1stal with fans after beating EDG. Champions Shanghai, 2026. Photo: Riot Games

Two fans hold up their tickets at the Miraj Cinemas entrance — Tickets in hand.

Fans gather in front of the cinema screen after the match — After the final round.

Fans with arms raised in a bar watching GE play — Every round, live.

1,100+

Fans at the Kickoff watch parties in Mumbai and Delhi, January 2025.

GE event deck

2,000+

Registrations across those two nights at Miraj Cinemas.

GE event deck

3+ hours

How long fans stay, start to finish, at a GE watch party.

GE event deck

1.9M+

Impressions from the Kickoff watch parties in five days.

GE event deck

Feb 2023 · Mumbai
Watching LOCK//IN together
Fans in Mumbai watched GE’s first season as a VCT partner team, together.
Watch the video
Jan 2025 · Mumbai and Delhi
Kickoff in the cinema
A first-of-its-kind VALORANT watch party in multiplexes: Miraj Cinemas in Mumbai and Delhi, with custom VALORANT food combos and record sales for the cinema.
Watch the recap
To 2025 · Mumbai
Bars and lifestyle hubs
Watch parties at Khar Social, BrewDog Mumbai and the IMAX at Miraj Cinemas, hosted with creators and their communities.
2026 · Busan and Shanghai
In the arena
From GE signs in the Busan crowd at the Pacific Grand Final to the stands in Shanghai at GE’s first Champions.

Watched live, everywhere

Creators host watch parties for GE matches on their own channels. A few from this year:

Pacific Grand Final watch party

Binks, 276K views, Sep 2026

Champions Shanghai: GE vs LOUD

Binks, 191K views, Oct 2026

Kickoff: GE vs ZETA

Binks, 118K views, Jan 2026

Pacific Grand Final watch party

Sliggy, 115K views, Sep 2026

Champions: GE vs EDG

Harsh Khelraay, 60K views, Oct 2026

Watch party photos and numbers: GE event records. Shanghai photo: Riot Games. View counts from YouTube, 17 Oct 2026.

GE Fighting store

Wear the colours.

Official GE kit and merch from GE Fighting. Add to your bag here, check out securely with Shopify.

Champions 2026 jersey

Dark mode. Your name and number on the back.

₹2,499

Customise

Champions 2026 jersey

Light mode. Your name and number on the back.

₹2,499

Customise

Champions combo: both jerseys for ₹3,999, applied automatically at checkout.

Legacy tee

It’s not just a game.

₹747

Add to bag

Merch pack

Sticker, pin badge and magnet opener.

₹169

Add to bag

Pin badge

₹91

Add to bag

Logo sticker

₹31

Add to bag

Magnet opener

Fridge magnet and bottle opener.

₹131

Add to bag

Prices in INR, from gefighting.com. Checkout, payment and delivery are handled by the GE Fighting store on Shopify.

2017
Started with a watch party
Global Esports began in August 2017 with a Dota 2 International watch party at Out Of The Blue in Mumbai. The first Overwatch team followed a month later.
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2018
India, Singapore, Korea
Overwatch rosters in three countries. GE Pantheon KR reached Overwatch Contenders Pacific. In November GE opened a player training base in Seoul.
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2019
First trophies
Second in Overwatch Contenders Pacific Season 2. Dota 2 won the ESL India Premiership Fall Finals and the Taiwan Excellence Gaming Cup. GE ran Team India at the Overwatch World Cup at BlizzCon, and opened a second bootcamp in Mumbai.
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2020
Into VALORANT
CS:GO won the ESL India Premiership Summer. In October GE signed its first VALORANT roster, and Vatsal Uniyal joined as team manager.
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2021
Conquerors champions
Won the VALORANT Conquerors Championship 3-2 over Velocity Gaming, plus Power Up India and a run of national titles.
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2022
Named a VCT partner team
Won the BGMI Masters Series and the Skyesports Champions Series. In September Riot named GE one of ten partner teams for the new VCT Pacific league, and the only one from South Asia.
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2023
On the international stage
LOCK//IN in São Paulo, then the first Pacific league season. GE vs ZETA DIVISION drew 336,722 peak viewers. Top four at Convergence.
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2024
Bigger crowds
GE vs ZETA at Pacific Kickoff peaked at 422,165 viewers. The BGMI team finished second at the BGMI Series 2024. UdoTan and Kr1stal signed in October.
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2025
The rebuild
A hard year in the league. The roster that would win in 2026 came together that winter: xavi8k and Autumn in November, PatMen in December.
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2026
Pacific champions
Third in Stage 1, a first Masters in London, the Stage 2 trophy in Busan and a first VALORANT Champions in Shanghai.
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By the numbers

By the numbers.

Third-party sources are linked under each number. Every figure, with its source, is on the sources page.

Career prize money

$554K

Tournament prize money won by GE teams across six titles, 2018 to 2026.

Liquipedia team results and Fortnite Esports Wiki, checked 17 Oct 2026

VALORANT$299K
BGMI$138K
Overwatch$36K
CS:GO$35K
Fortnite$30K
Dota 2$16K

Fortnite counts prize money GE players won in events played under the GE tag, 2018 to 2019.

583KPeak viewers for a GE match, VALORANT Champions 2026Esports Charts, team page

48Championships won across titles

203+Podium finishes

13Game titles competed in

200+Professional players signed

1 of 10VCT Pacific partner teams, and the only one from South AsiaRiot partner announcement, 2022

43MYouTube views: 31.2M on GE VALORANT, 12.1M on the main channelYouTube, 16 Oct 2026

1B+Impressions on GE content, all platforms

Full source list with dates: globalesports.com/sources. Checked 16 Oct 2026.

For players

For players.

What wearing the GE jersey has meant since 2017.

Seoul
A player training base in Seoul from November 2018, and a second in Mumbai from March 2019.
GE site, 2019
5 cities
Bootcamps in Singapore, London, New York, Harrisburg and Los Angeles.
rushindra.com
200+
Professional players signed across GE rosters since 2017.
20+
Countries GE players have come from, including India, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Russia, Indonesia, Singapore, Finland, Poland and Switzerland.
3 LANs2026
LondonParisShanghai
Three international LAN events in 2026: Masters London, the Esports World Cup in Paris and VALORANT Champions in Shanghai. On top of hundreds of matches played since 2017.
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Next stop
GE alumni have gone on to Gen.G, RRQ, Team Secret, Team SouL and GodLike. See where they went above.
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Global Esports players embrace on stage after a win — Masters London, June 2026.

Life at GE

GE players fist-bump on the walkout before the Grand Final — Walkout, Pacific Stage 2 Grand Final, Busan.

The GE team and staff on the Masters London stage — First Masters. London, June 2026.

Fans in the Busan crowd holding GE signs — GE fans in the crowd in Busan.

A GE player mid-match on the Grand Final stage — Grand Final, Busan.

Watch Life at Global Esports, episode 4, on YouTube — Life at Global Esports, the docu-series. Episode 4: a beach clean-up.

Media first

Media first.

We tell the story as well as we play it. The GE studio, led by co-founder Mohit Israney, makes the shows, films and broadcasts.

Journey To Becoming The Best

Global Esports VALORANT, October 2026

The true meaning of #GEFighting

535K views, brand film

GE Mavi announcement

344K views, roster reveal

We beat the 2024 world champions

Champions 2026 highlights

Life at Global Esports

112K views, docu-series

Esports This Week

A weekly news show on Indian and global esports. More than 50 episodes.

Life at Global Esports

A docu-series inside the team house, the bootcamps and the off days.

Voice comms and vlogs

What the players actually say mid-round, and the travel in between.

Broadcast and events

End-to-end broadcast of the Free Fire Pro League 2021, with 35M+ broadcast views. Watch parties in cinemas in Mumbai and Delhi.

A decade of films, broadcasts, events and brand campaigns, from the Free Fire Pro League to South Asia Arise.

See the studio’s work

For partners

For partners.

Who watches, what we publish, and the brands we have worked with.

Peak viewers for a GE match

VCT, by year. Esports Charts.

2023
336K
2024
422K
2026
583K

2023, 2024, 2026. 2025 not shown: no verified figure.

VCT Pacific partnerNamed one of ten Pacific partner teams by Riot in 2022, and the only one from South Asia.Partner announcement, 2022
305KPeak viewers for the Stage 2 Grand Final, the most-watched match of Pacific Stage 2.Esports Charts
2,753 videosPublished across GE’s two YouTube channels, with 43M views between them.YouTube, 16 Oct 2026
1B+Impressions on GE content across platforms.

Followed by

Follower counts read from each platform on 16 Oct 2026.

Brands we have worked with

Also: Amazon, Blizzard Entertainment, LinkedIn, BenQ and ZOWIE, Krafton, DreamHack, Viacom18, Sprite, Danone, Bajaj, Zotac Gaming, Loco, Dice, Miraj Cinemas, Sunburn, Isobar, Number (wearables), TT Racing, Frizzon Productions, The Esports Club, 8-Bit and Monk-E.

Past brand partners, from GE’s brand deck. Logos are trademarks of their owners.

The people

The people.

Dr Rushindra Sinha

Founder and CEO

A doctor by training who played his first LAN in 2001 and competed at the World Cyber Games in 2003. Founded Global Esports in 2017. Today he leads the company: strategy, partnerships and where GE goes next.

More at rushindra.com →

Interview, October 2026

Mohit Israney

Co-founder, head of studio

Filmmaker who directed South Asia Arise, the official anthem of the Skyesports Champions Series. Today he runs the GE studio: the films, shows, broadcasts and brand work, and everything you watch from us.

Vatsal Uniyal

Director and head of esports

Played for Team India at the 2019 Overwatch World Cup and joined GE staff in 2019. Today he runs everything competitive at GE, including the VCT Pacific roster, the academy pipeline, and esports operations across India and South Korea.

vlr.gg

Gary Chiu

Head of content

MiokeN. A former Counter-Strike pro who also played Overwatch for GE’s Indian roster in 2019. Today he runs GE’s content: the channels, the videos and the voice of GE across social.

GosuGamers India interview, 2022

The team

TaeriHose SonHead of operations, Seoul

GonaHyunwoo JiTeam manager, VCT, Seoul

KarthikVenkatesh RajChief editor and storyteller

ShrixShreekrishna PurohitHead of operations

Karan RajaniCreative lead

NephilliusSoumyadip MondalHead of graphics and art

AgnAakash NairSenior editor and storyteller

HydraParth PimpalkarSocial media

KripzUmesh KriplaniCreator, caster and voice of esports

“Team banao, maidan mein aao, dikhao.”

Build a team, step onto the field, and prove it. Dr Rushindra Sinha, October 2026.

The 2026 five

An Indian org with a roster from four countries.

xavi8kXavier Juan
Philippines. In-game leader

AutumnKale Dunne
Australia. Captain

PatMenPatrick Mendoza
Philippines

UdoTanGo Kyung-won
South Korea

Kr1stalSavva Fedorov
Russia

Head coach Platoon (Daniel Zhou). Assistant coach Aimix (Derren dela Cruz). Analyst Fields (Sam Greenfield). Head of operations taeri (Hose Son). Team manager Gona (Hyunwoo Ji). Alumni include SkRossi, t3xture (now Gen.G), Monyet (now RRQ), Benkai, AYRIN, Bazzi, HellrangeR, Lightningfast, Antidote, Mavi, Manya, Jokerr, NakuL, Eraser and Kephrii.

Roster and staff: vlr.gg

Work with GE.

Partnerships, press, players and everything else.

contact@globalesports.com

Founder and investor enquiries: rushi@globalesports.com

Global Esports.Pacific champions.

GE in 60 seconds

The 2026 season.

Pacific Kickoff

Pacific Stage 1

Masters London

Esports World Cup

Pacific Stage 2

VALORANT Champions

World beaters.

Nongshim RedForce

T1

Paper Rex

Gen.G

KIWOOM DRX

ZETA DIVISION

Rex Regum Qeon

FULL SENSE

Team Secret

VARREL

DetonatioN FocusMe

For the fans.

0-2 down. Then three straight.

First win at Masters

Beat the world champions

Conquerors champions

Contenders Pacific finalists

A Fortnite World Cup record

Watch it again

How we reverse swept a Grand Final

GE are the champions of VCT Pacific

We shut down T1 like this

We beat the 2024 world champions

The London qualification journey

VCT Champions Shanghai, ft. you

Fortnite World Cup record, 162 points

Where they went

Watch parties.

Watching LOCK//IN together

Kickoff in the cinema

Bars and lifestyle hubs

In the arena

Watched live, everywhere

Pacific Grand Final watch party

Champions Shanghai: GE vs LOUD

Kickoff: GE vs ZETA

Pacific Grand Final watch party

Champions: GE vs EDG

Wear the colours.

Champions 2026 jersey

Champions 2026 jersey

Legacy tee

Merch pack

Pin badge

Logo sticker

Magnet opener

Since 2017.

Started with a watch party

India, Singapore, Korea

First trophies

Into VALORANT

Conquerors champions

Named a VCT partner team

On the international stage

Bigger crowds

The rebuild

Pacific champions

By the numbers.

For players.

Life at GE

Media first.

Journey To Becoming The Best

The true meaning of #GEFighting

GE Mavi announcement

We beat the 2024 world champions

Life at Global Esports

Esports This Week

Life at Global Esports

Voice comms and vlogs

Broadcast and events