Marvel Rivals Ignite 2026: Mid Season Finals
Main Stage Day One: Four Teams Stay Unbeaten as 100 Thieves and OUG Are Eliminated
Day one of the Main Stage at the Marvel Rivals Ignite 2026: Mid-Season Finals is complete in Los Angeles, United States. Six series were played across two rounds of the double-elimination bracket, and two of the eight teams are already out.
Four teams came through Winners Round 1 unbeaten and go into the winners semi-finals. Two more lost their opening series and then won a best-of-five to stay in the event. Every series below has its match card attached, so the full map scores and scoreboards are one click away.
🏆 Winners Round 1
The day opened with the fastest series of the six. Natus Vincere beat 100 Thieves 2-0 in 17 minutes and 20 seconds, taking Birnin T'Challa 2-0 on Domination and Museum of Contemplation 2-1 on Convoy. Map MVP went twice to 
United Kingdomfate of Natus Vincere while 
United StatesTTK and United StatesVinnie took the map SVP awards for 100 Thieves in defeat.
Virtus.pro came from a map down to beat Gen.G Esports 2-1 in 43 minutes and 40 seconds. Gen.G Esports took Celestial Husk 2-1 on Domination before Virtus.pro answered with Museum of Contemplation 3-2 on Convoy and Hall of Djalia 2-0 on Convergence. 
SwedenSparkR finished with 93 kills, a map MVP and a map SVP, and IcelandFinnsi took the other map MVP. On the Gen.G Esports side ChinaBobo picked up an MVP and an SVP, with a further SVP for Australiaduep as well.
Liquid Citadel and RAD played the longest best-of-three of the round. Liquid Citadel took Krakoa 2-0 on Domination, RAD hit back 4-3 on Hall of Djalia, and Liquid Citadel closed it out 3-0 on Yggdrasill Path for a 2-1 win in 39 minutes and 25 seconds. United Statesenergy led the series with 102 kills and a map MVP, United StatesVeswa took the other map MVP and United StatesShpeediry added an SVP. DenmarkSmashNezz took a map MVP and two map SVPs for RAD in the loss.
Swamp Gaming closed the round with a 2-0 win over OUG in 22 minutes and 30 seconds, winning Celestial Husk 2-0 on Domination and Midtown 3-2 on Convoy. United Statesforkydog and United StatesValentina Eve took the map MVPs, and the map SVPs went to ChinaTAROCOOK1E and ChinaDisaster on the OUG side.
🎟️ Losers Round 1
Both Losers Round 1 series were best-of-five eliminations, and both of them sent a team home.
Gen.G Esports beat 100 Thieves 3-1 in 45 minutes and 33 seconds. Gen.G Esports took Hell's Heaven 2-0 on Domination and Central Park 4-3 on Convergence, 100 Thieves answered 1-0 on Museum of Contemplation, and Gen.G Esports closed the series 2-0 on Celestial Husk. Australiaduep was named MVP on three of the four maps and added an SVP. BulgariaAlx finished his first Main Stage series for Gen.G Esports with 102 assists and 119,833 healing, having come into the roster after Salvation was denied a visa, while AustraliaSkittles matched him on 102 assists with 152,602 healing. For 100 Thieves there was a map MVP and two map SVPs for United Statesdelenaa and an SVP for United StatesMalenia as well.
RAD swept OUG 3-0 with every map decided by a single point: Celestial Husk 2-1 on Domination, Midtown 3-2 on Convoy and Central Park 3-2 on Convergence, in 43 minutes and 22 seconds. DenmarkSmashNezz took all three map MVPs. ChinaWenxuyan took an SVP and ChinaTAROCOOK1E took two more as OUG went out.
📊 Where the bracket stands
Four teams are still unbeaten. Natus Vincere and Virtus.pro are through on the top half of the winners bracket, and Liquid Citadel and Swamp Gaming are through on the bottom half. Gen.G Esports and RAD are alive in the losers bracket with one loss each. 100 Thieves and OUG are out after losing twice on the day.
📅 What's next
The winners semi-finals are up on Friday, July 31. Natus Vincere play Virtus.pro in the first of them and Liquid Citadel play Swamp Gaming in the second. Rad and Gen.G is waiting in Losers Round 2