The bracket below is frozen in its day-one state and every best-of-three lists three games, no matter how the series actually went. If a VOD does not exist, the shield will not tell you why. Watch in order and nothing gets ruined. Curious about one series? The 👁 button on any match shows just who played, score still hidden. The ? that appears then reveals the score, and only for that series. When you are done with everything, hit SPOILERS up top to reveal it all.
WATCH ORDER
Top to bottom is chronological. That is the whole trick. Start at SR1 #1 and keep going.
⚠ YouTube titles name the two teams playing. That is unavoidable, so open a game only when you have reached it.
BRACKET
Eight teams, double-elimination, two days. Same map as the live weekend, minus the outcomes.
Follow the gold lines for the winners path, the dashed teal lines for where losers drop.
Finland—
Germany—
Russia—
Algeria—
Kazakhstan—
UK—
USA—
Ukraine—FINAL STANDINGS
RUSSIA
50%
USA
25%
FINLAND
15%
GERMANY
10%
Final prize pool: 1001.50€ • 23 community donors pushed it past 1000€ live during the grand final.
Russia dropped exactly one game all weekend. The full stat breakdown lives in the tournament report.
📊 READ THE TOURNAMENT REPORTTHE 8 NATIONS
The squads exactly as they were locked before day one. MMR = AD MMR.
Hover a card to bring it to life • seeds are pre-tournament ratings, not results
FORMAT
The Ability Draft World Cup 2026: 8 national teams, double-elimination, played across two days on July 25 and 26, 2026.
Day one was a seeding gauntlet of best-of-ones that sorted teams into the upper and lower brackets, capped by the Bo3 upper bracket final. Day two ran the lower bracket semifinal, the lower bracket final and the grand final, all best-of-three.
PRIZE POOL
♥ Split 50 / 25 / 15 / 10 between the top four. Who took which cut hides behind the spoiler switch.
Honoring the prize pool for the community