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Team Liquid won the Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) Year 6 Split 2 Playoffs on Sunday, November 1, 2026, at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. The team closed a nine-match final on 91 points, 11 clear of Team Vision, and took the US$600,000 first prize from a US$2,000,000 pool. RG and Pley both reported the standings, and Team Liquid's own announcement named the winning trio as Sikezz, Panic and Zer0.
The event ran from Thursday, October 29, to Sunday, November 1, with 40 teams. Liquid were sixth on 40 points after six matches of the final, and the format meant that leading on points was never enough to win. This article covers the result and how the final was decided, then looks at the team and at what the finish changes for the road to the ALGS Year 6 Championship in Sapporo, Japan.
Points and first prize as reported by Pley, RG and a gaming news site on November 2, 2026; pool and team count from RG, GameRiv and the gaming news site.
How the Sunday final unfolded
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The final used the Match Point format. A team must first collect 50 points, and only then does a win in a later match crown it champion. Reaching 50 points on its own does not end the tournament.
RG described the middle of the final match by match. In match 5, Alliance and Forged Wolves were the first teams to reach Match Point, and White Grim Reaper won the match to land on exactly 50. In match 6, Team Vision joined them with an 18-kill, 30-point win.
Related readTeam Spirit Beat PARIVISION to Win a Record Third Aegis of ChampionsLiquid were still outside that group. Pley reported that the team was sixth on 40 points after six matches. Then came match 7 on the map Olympus. Pley said Liquid took 13 kills and 25 points there, which lifted the team to 65 and put it on match point. RG added that Forged Wolves were within 30 health points of winning the title in that match, before Liquid took it instead.
Match 8 did not decide anything. Both RG and Pley reported that Aurora won it, and RG described a chaotic final circle that kept the final alive. That pushed the tournament to a ninth and last match, played on Storm Point according to Pley.
In match 9, Team Vision, the team that had been on match point since match 6, was knocked out early. RG said Liquid eliminated Vision early, and Pley placed Vision 18th in that match. Pley wrote that Liquid outlasted RRQ in the last circle. The win was enough, and Liquid finished on 91.
The final standings
Pley listed the top ten with points, match wins and prize money, and the gaming news site printed the same ten teams in the same order with the same points. The nine match wins listed for those ten teams equal the nine matches played.
| Place and team | Points | Match wins | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Team Liquid | 91 | 2 | US$600,000 |
| 2. Team Vision | 80 | 2 | US$300,000 |
| 3. Forged Wolves | 76 | 1 | US$200,000 |
| 4. Aurora | 71 | 1 | US$150,000 |
| 5. Alliance | 65 | 1 | US$125,000 |
| 6. White Grim Reaper | 64 | 1 | US$100,000 |
| 7. Wolves Esports | 61 | 0 | US$80,000 |
| 8. Ninjas in Pyjamas | 53 | 1 | US$60,000 |
| 9. Crazy Thieves | 48 | 0 | US$50,000 |
| 10. Team WaR | 48 | 0 | US$40,000 |
Pley, November 2, 2026, for points, match wins and prizes; the first three prizes are also printed by a gaming news site, and GameRiv's pre-event guide lists the same prize schedule for all ten places. Crazy Thieves and Team WaR both finished on 48.
Two details stand out. Liquid and Vision each won two of the nine matches, yet 11 points separated them at the end. And the pool reaches deep into the field: Pley's table shows US$40,000 for tenth place, and GameRiv's event guide said every one of the 40 teams would receive prize money.
Related readTeam Yandex and Team Spirit Set a PARI Universe Grand FinalLiquid finished 15 points clear of third place.
Match point, explained
For readers who have not followed the format, the title rule has two parts. A team needs 50 points. After that, it must finish first in a match.
GameRiv's event guide set the start of the final as 20 teams in the Match Point format, and the first team to reach 50 and then take a first-place finish in a following match is the winner.
Liquid's route fits that description. The team was on 40 after six matches and reached 65 in match 7. Match 8 went to Aurora, with Liquid finishing third according to the gaming news site, and the win in match 9 settled the title.
From 40 teams to 20
GameRiv's event guide, published on October 24, 2026, laid out the format. The group stage was set for Thursday, October 29, and Friday, October 30. Each of the four groups was to play a six-match series against each of the other three groups, so every team would play 18 matches. The 20 teams with the most combined points would move into the Winners Round, and the other 20 would enter Elimination Round 1.
The bracket stage was set for Saturday, October 31, in three rounds, according to the guide. In Elimination Round 1, the top ten would advance to Elimination Round 2 and the bottom ten would be eliminated. In the Winners Round, the top ten would qualify directly for the final and the bottom ten would drop into Elimination Round 2, where the top ten would take the last final places.
Related readTeam Yandex win BLAST Slam VIII over Team Spirit in MaltaGameRiv put the field at 15 teams from the Americas, 7 from EMEA, 10 from APAC North and 8 from APAC South. It listed Liquid in Group D, alongside Aurora, Ninjas in Pyjamas and UNLIMIT.
The team behind the title
Pley listed the winning roster as Zer0, Sikezz and Panic, with Kapreme as coach, and Team Liquid's own announcement named the same three players. The gaming news site named the same three players and Kapreme. Pley described Zer0 as the in-game leader, the player who calls the team's positioning and decisions during a match.
According to Pley, Sikezz joined Liquid in November 2025. Panic was signed on February 19, 2026, and Kapreme was added as coach in March 2026.
Zer0 also reached a personal milestone. Both RG and Team Liquid reported that one of the matches Liquid won on Sunday was his 100th ALGS match win. RG said he is the first player to win 100 ALGS matches, and Liquid's announcement said he is the first player in the series' history to reach that mark. Team Liquid counted the title as his fifth ALGS trophy, after the 2022 Split 2 Playoffs, the 2022 ALGS Championship, the 2023 Split 2 Playoffs and the 2025 ALGS Open. RG called it his fifth major Apex Legends trophy. Liquid's announcement added that each of those five titles was won with Zer0 as in-game leader, across four different teams.
Team Liquid's announcement was published on Monday, November 2, the day after the final. Pley named Sikezz the event's most valuable player. It also gave some of the team's earlier results: a 33rd-place finish at the ALGS Championship in Sapporo in January 2026, and sixth place in the Americas Pro League in Split 1. Pley is the source for both results.
Related readHow The International 2026 was filled: invites and qualifiersWhat the result means for Sapporo
The Las Vegas playoffs were the last ALGS Year 6 event to award Championship Points, according to RG. RG said those points decide which teams qualify directly for the Year 6 Championship and which go to the Last Chance Qualifier.
The ALGS Year 6 Championship is set for January 28 to 31, 2027, in Sapporo, according to Pley, which put its prize pool at US$2,000,000. Pley reported that the top 32 teams in the points standings qualify directly and the last eight places go through the regional Last Chance Qualifiers. Esports Net reported that the Last Chance Qualifier runs from November 20 to 22, a date it gave when the Year 6 calendar was announced.
Players need to have competed in at least 12 Pro League matches for their Championship Points to count toward their team's total. Esports Net reported that rule for Pro League matches when the Year 6 calendar was announced on January 20, 2026, and Inven Global reported a 12-match minimum.
Esports Net and Inven Global both reported a total Year 6 prize pool of US$7 million, US$1 million more than the previous year. Inven Global listed the three LAN events of the season as the Split 1 playoffs at the Esports World Cup, the Las Vegas playoffs and the Championship in Sapporo. Inven Global reported that each of the three LAN events, the two playoffs and the Championship, carries a US$2,000,000 pool. Liquid's US$600,000 is therefore 30% of one of those pools.
The qualifier route has produced a champion before. Esports Net also noted when the Year 6 calendar was announced that Oblivion won the Year 5 Last Chance Qualifier and went on to become champion.
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