Four teams remain after a ruthless day of quarter-finals
Day 3 of the Midseason Championship settled the top eight, sending defending champions Team Falcons and EMEA champions Virtus.pro out of Paris in the process. A live draw at the end of the group stage then set the quarter-final pairings.
The quarter-finals of the Overwatch Champions Series 2026 Midseason Championship are single-elimination, with no lower bracket to fall into. Every match is a first-to-three, the four winners secure a top-four finish, and the four losers go home.
Here's how Day 4 panned out:
T1 3 - 0 Crazy Raccoon
With the stakes at an all-time high, the two Korean giants opened the playoffs with an upset for the memories. Crazy Raccoon arrived with every reason for confidence, having beaten T1 in both of their Stage 2 meetings and, more importantly, having won the Champions Clash major. The teams started on Nepal with CR banning Mauga, and the Champions Clash winners came out strong, but once T1 stabilised, they held firm. Kim "DONGHAK" Min-sung repeatedly got the better of Park "JunBin" Jun-bin on both Orisa and in the Ramattra mirror, and on Sanctum, Kim "ZEST" Hyun-woo single-handedly turned T1's odds around on Pharah. Taking the win on CR's own map pick handed T1 a considerable advantage from the outset.
CR picked Neon Junction next, subbed in Choi "MAX" Su-min and banned ZEST's Vendetta. They took the first point convincingly and pushed on from there, but their momentum halted completely just short of the full push. T1 answered with an incredibly poke-heavy Sojourn/Pharah/Wuyang/Kiriko/Ramattra composition on their attack and came out dominant, toppling Crazy Raccoon in every team fight to put the series to an unexpectedly fast match point.
With their entire tournament on the line, Crazy Raccoon sent the series to Suravasa. They started strong and had point A to 99% before T1 finally managed the flip, though it was not long before CR secured it for good. T1 answered right back on point B, and CR took point C, with DONGHAK switching between Ramattra and Mauga in search of every ounce of advantage. Hong "Proud" Suk-jin then came fully online on Freja for the final two points, bringing a convincing air of finality to Crazy Raccoon's entire tournament. With that, one of the favourites to win the whole thing, Crazy Raccoon, were sent home.
ZETA DIVISION 3 - 0 Dallas Fuel
ZETA DIVISION continued their reign of terror at this year's Midseason Championship with a dominant victory over the Dallas Fuel.
ZETA started with a Mercy ban, showing their willingness to take it to Dallas on whatever composition they liked while also protecting Kim "shu" Jin-seo's Ana. The gamble paid off, as the opening round was a bloodbath in favour of the Korean top seed. Shin "BERNAR" Se-won rolled out on the Orisa to complement his team's heavy poke composition with Ana, Shion and Emre.
Dallas were also on a poke composition with Sigma, but overwhelmingly lost the poke battle as Kim "Kellan" Min-jae fell first. From there, ZETA took control of the point and didn't lose a step. A Nano Boost and Terra Surge combo put the final nail in the coffin, and ZETA went up 1-0. Dallas showed a few more signs of life on Shrine, winning a couple of ult fights, but ZETA were never truly worried and took the map 2-0.
Neon Junction was more of the same for Dallas fans. Their attack started with an immediate massacre that sent them back to spawn, but their second attempt resulted in an easy first point capture after Kellan's Mauga ran down ZETA’s squishy Baptiste/Illari backline. From there, though, it was the Park "Viol2t" Min-ki and Kim "Proper" Dong-hyun show. Their mastery and dominance on Jetpack Cat and Tracer shone through, and they found incredible value in side fights, winning their team the map from that alone. Dallas were halted just shy of the third point, and ZETA's attack was swift and brutal, taking the map with relative ease.
The first Suravasa pick of the tournament was a welcome surprise, but the result wouldn't be so different. Despite Park "SeonJun" Seon-jun's best efforts — by far the biggest bright spark of the Dallas team throughout the match — his team fell 3-1 on the map. They were able to level the score at 1-1, but by the time Shu had Ana's major headshot perk equipped, the map was all but decided. He was finding value with every cooldown, and very nearly every shot was money.
ZETA dominantly dispatched Dallas and continued down their warpath towards the semi-finals. It was a good showing from Dallas to make it this far, but they were always going to face an obstacle of this magnitude eventually, and they weren't able to overcome it this time.
Weibo Gaming 3 - 1 Spacestation Gaming
A rematch of the ages at a crucial point of the tournament, with a rivalry that has become legendary. Spacestation Gaming have been eliminated by the Weibo core at every LAN they have attended since moving to the NA region. Three majors in total, at Champions Clash 2025, the 2025 World Finals and Champions Clash 2026.
Weibo picked Nepal to start, but SSG were the ones to find their footing first, securing Village behind a great Blossom finish from Kamden "Sugarfree" Hijada. That momentum carried into Sanctum, and before long Weibo had lost their own map pick and trailed 1-0.
Weibo sent the series straight to Neon Junction, where they had pulled off a miracle against Team Falcons two days earlier, and they blitzed through it, full pushing with three and a half minutes still in the bank. SSG answered on their attack with a rare Zarya/Genji look and made quick work of the first point to build early momentum. Zarya proved less effective on the second point, so Xander "Hawk" Domecq switched to Orisa, which was lethal alongside the Genji as SSG took it. That was where their progress halted. Sugarfree switched to Mei to force the payload through the final corner, but Weibo defended well to level the series at 1-1.
SSG sent the series to Shambali Monastery and brought out Cat/Bastion, with Lee “LeeSooMin” Soo-Min answering on an underrepresented Mizuki. Despite continued heroics from Sugarfree on Tracer, SSG managed only a single point before Weibo stopped them in their tracks. Chen "Sunzo" Cheng was clinical with Sigma on the attack, consistently isolating Hawk's Ramattra while the rest of Weibo dealt with the SSG backline. Weibo outscored SSG with time to spare, and the NA side suddenly found themselves staring at elimination.
SSG picked New Junk City to make their stand, and both teams mirrored compositions bar Sugarfree on Reaper and Huang “Leave” Xin on Shion. They traded the first two points to make it 1-1 before Weibo broke the back-and-forth with a flawless Spree/Cage combo from Leave and Xu "Guxue" Qiulin. The Chinese champions were fully in control from there and made effortless work of point D to send Spacestation Gaming home and secure a top-four finish.
Twisted Minds 3 - 1 Geekay Esports
The final Quarter Final match of the day pitted Twisted Minds against Geekay Esports. In the Stage 2 EMEA Playoffs, Geekay Esports had reverse swept TM twice before ultimately finishing in second place. Regardless, defeating such a dominant squad three times in a row would be a daunting task.
On Nepal, Twisted Minds came out the gate swinging off the back of Abdualziz "TVNT" Altmimi’s Reinhardt. This setup allowed the Bastion/Symmetra composition from the TM DPS line to completely overwhelm Geekay Esports and win Nepal swiftly. And that composition continued to carry Twisted Minds through Neon Junction, preventing a first-point capture attempt and halting Geekay’s attack early. Although Kim "AlphaYi" Jun was able to utilize his own Symmetra to take advantage of a compositional mismatch from TM, ultimately they were no match for the Reinhardt as the map closed out with a Twisted Minds win.
As the series reached match point, Geekay knew they needed to target TVNT’s Reinhardt to recapture their footing in the series, resulting in the coaching staff banning the hero on New Junk City. This crucial ban proved beneficial for Geekay, with Abdulelah "LBBD7" Alfaifi now able to utilize his dominant Sojourn alongside AlphaYi’s Symmetra to overwhelm Twisted Minds. Geekay won New Junk City and brought the series to an all-too-familiar territory for these two teams.
Heading to Route 66, it was clear Twisted Minds were about to silence any attempt at a reverse sweep. Ibrahem "Quartz" Alali completely took over on Sojourn as AlphaYi struggled to find footing on Vendetta, and it looked as though the series was ready to close out. But LBBD7 was not yet ready to go home, as he came back with a vengeance in the final seconds of the first point to reverse extend Geekay’s stay in the tournament for just a bit longer. The map went to timebank round, and Geekay started their attack first to save their tournament hopes and continue the reverse sweep. However, Quartz turned up once more to assert himself at the top again, and put the series away. Twisted Minds clutched on their defence before ultimately winning the map and the series 3-1.
This match was another notch in the belt for the storied rivalry between Twisted Minds and the Geekay Esports core, with TM once more sending this core of players home. The series was a much-needed confidence boost for the 2025 world champions, who advanced further in the playoff bracket to challenge Weibo Gaming.
Looking ahead to the final day
Crazy Raccoon, Dallas Fuel, Spacestation Gaming and Geekay Esports all ended their runs in 5th-8th, leaving four teams to contest the trophy.
The semi-finals put T1 against ZETA DIVISION in an all-Korean clash, with Twisted Minds facing Weibo Gaming on the other side of the bracket. Both are first-to-three, as is the bonus match to decide third and fourth place. The grand final will be a first-to-four slugfest.