(Photo credit: Shawn Dowd)

FEARX, KT Rolster and Team WE won their Round 2 High Matches on Sunday to become the first teams to clinch their spots in the knockout stage at the 2026 Demacia Club Global Invitational in China.

The League of Legends tournament runs through Oct. 17 and features 12 top teams that didn't qualify for the World Championship from the six major global regions. They are competing for a prize pool of 1.5 million Chinese yuan (about $223,800 USD).

The Swiss Stage is being held online and runs through Oct. 10. Round 1 matches on Saturday were best-of-one and the rest of the stage will be best-of-three. Eight teams will advance to the single-elimination knockout stage in Beijing, which starts on Oct. 12. Those matches will be best-of-five.

On Sunday, FEARX outlasted LGD Gaming 2-1, sandwiching a 24-minute win on blue and a 28-minute victory on red around LGD's 39-minute victory on red.

KT Rolster swept RED Canids 2-0 with a pair of quick wins on blue (28 minutes, 23 minutes).

Team WE outlasted BRION 2-1. They won in 36 minutes on blue, succumbed to BRION's 28-minute win on red and pulled out a 29-minute win on blue in the do-or-die third game.

The tournament continues Monday with the three Round 2 Low Matches:

--GAM Esports vs. Team Vitality

--Natus Vincere vs. FlyQuest

--Shopify Rebellion vs. JD Gaming

Swiss Stage standings (match record, game record):

1. FEARX, 2-0, 3-1

1. KT Rolster, 2-0, 3-0

1. Team WE, 2-0, 3-1

4. BRION, 1-1, 2-2

4. LGD Gaming 1-1, 2-2

4. RED Canids, 1-1, 1-2

7. FlyQuest, 0-1, 0-1

7. GAM Esports, 0-1, 0-1

7. JD Gaming, 0-1, 0-1

7. Natus Vincere, 0-1, 0-1

7. Shopify Rebellion, 0-1, 0-1

7. Team Vitality, 0-1, 0-1

Demacia Cup Global Invitational prize pool:

1. TBD, $89,520

2. TBD, $59,680

3-4. TBD, $26,110

5-8. TBD, $5,595

--Field Level Media