Marvel Rivals Ignite 2026: Mid Season Finals
Main Stage Day Two: NAVI and Liquid Citadel Sweep Into Winners Round 3
Five Main Stage series ran on Friday at the Marvel Rivals Ignite 2026: Mid-Season Finals in Los Angeles, United States, and the field went from six teams down to three. Natus Vincere and Liquid Citadel won Winners Round 2 without dropping a map. RAD won two more best-of-fives to stay in the bracket. Virtus.pro and Gen.G Esports and Swamp Gaming are out.
Everything else gets decided on Saturday, and there are three matches left.
🏆 Winners Round 2
Natus Vincere opened the day against Virtus.pro at 10:00 AM and had it finished inside 22 minutes. Krakoa on Domination went 2-1 and Arakko on Convoy went 2-1, so both maps came down to a single point, and neither of them got Virtus.pro to a decider. 
FinlandRaajaro and 
CanadaTerra took the two map MVP awards, and CanadaTerra ended the series with 41 kills and just under 55,000 damage. 
United Kingdomfate and HungaryLv1Crook both cleared 60,000 healing in a series that lasted 21 minutes.
Liquid Citadel did the same thing to Swamp Gaming and did it faster. Birnin T'Challa on Domination went 2-1 and Spider-Islands on Convoy went 1-0, and the whole series was over in under 17 minutes. NorwayPolly took one map MVP and United Statesenergy took the other on a 43-9-9 line.
💥 The losers bracket
Virtus.pro dropped into Losers Round 2 and drew RAD at 1:20 PM. Virtus.pro took Krakoa 2-0 to open the series and then lost three maps in a row, none of them by more than a point: Spider-Islands 3-2, Hall of Djalia 3-2 and Celestial Husk 2-1. SwedenSparkR finished with 118 kills and close to 135,000 damage and was named SVP twice, and Francedridro and DenmarkSypeh both cleared 130,000 healing. RAD had United Kingdomducky1 with two map MVPs, 98 kills and more than 250,000 damage taken. The series ran 58 minutes and put Virtus.pro out of the tournament.
Swamp Gaming came down from Winners Round 2 and met Gen.G Esports at 4:00 PM. Swamp Gaming won Birnin T'Challa 2-0, gave up Central Park 5-4 on Convergence, and then closed it out on Spider-Islands 2-1 and Midtown 2-1. United StatesMelophobia took two map MVPs and an SVP with 128 kills and 69 final hits, and United Statesforkydog and United StatesValentina Eve split roughly 260,000 healing between them.
That set up the last series of the night. RAD beat Swamp Gaming 3-0 in Losers Round 3, and all three maps went to a single point: Celestial Husk 2-1, Spider-Islands 1-0 and Symbiotic Surface 5-4. The scoreboard for that series has not been published on the site yet.
📊 Where the bracket stands
Natus Vincere and Liquid Citadel are the two teams still in the winners bracket, and neither has lost a series since the Main Stage started. RAD are the last team in the losers bracket and have now won three best-of-fives in two days.
100 Thieves and OUG went out on Thursday. Virtus.pro and Gen.G Esports and Swamp Gaming went out on Friday.
📅 What's next
Saturday closes the event with three matches. Natus Vincere play Liquid Citadel in Winners Round 3 at 10:00 AM PT in a best-of-five, and the winner goes through to the grand final. The loser drops into Losers Round 4 against RAD at 12:40 PM PT in another best-of-five. The grand final follows at 3:20 PM PT and is a best-of-seven.
All three are on the Main Stage in Los Angeles, United States. The full bracket and every published scoreboard are on the event page.