Esports World Cup · Paris · Jul 2 – Aug 23
Twenty-five events, $75,000,000, one city. Elite lands in Paris on two fronts in week one — and is grinding for a third in August.
Fatal Fury — Reynald's bracket
ALGS Split 1 Playoffs — Elite EU
Reload Elite Series Championship
Paris Expo Porte de Versailles
Jul 2 – Aug 23, 2026
~$75M across 25 events
Fatal Fury · Apex · Fortnite
The campaign
Jul 7–10The 2013 Evo KOF XIII world champion is one of 32 players in the Fatal Fury field — qualified through Combo Breaker 2026, carrying Elite onto the biggest FGC stage of the year.
Jul 7–11lighT, iHenchman, and KIND4 — with BleahciM on the whiteboard — qualified 5th from the EMEA Pro League. Forty teams, four regions, the first LAN of ALGS Year 6.
Aug 19–22Fortnite's EWC debut puts $1M on stage for 40 duos in August. Eomzo, Josh, and PXMP are grinding the qualifying road through the Reload Elite Series.
Week one
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
ALGS Split 1 Playoffs
The storyline
Reynald won Evo in 2013 — the first American King of Fighters XIII world champion. In July he walks into the biggest fighting-game stage of 2026 wearing Elite colors. Read how he got here.
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Yes — twice in week one. Reynald competes in the $1,000,000 Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves bracket (July 7–10), and Elite's Apex Legends EU squad plays the ALGS Split 1 Playoffs (July 7–11), both at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.
The Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves tournament runs July 7–10, 2026 — a 32-player, $1,000,000 bracket. Reynald qualified via Combo Breaker 2026.
Elite Esports Europe — lighT, iHenchman, and KIND4, coached by BleahciM. They qualified 5th from the EMEA Pro League and play from Group C, July 7–11 at EWC Paris.
Paris, France — at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, running July 2 to August 23, 2026, with roughly $75,000,000 in prizing across 25 events.
Yes — the Reload Elite Series Championship runs August 19–22, 2026 at EWC Paris, with $1M on stage for 40 duos. Elite's NA Fortnite players are grinding the qualifying road.
