GALA Leads JDG Past Team WE to Reach League of Legends Worlds 2026 Qualifier

JD Gaming advanced to a do-or-die matchup for the League of Legends World Championship 2026 after defeating Team WE 3-1 in the LPL Regional Finals. Botlaner Chen 'GALA' Wei was instrumental in the victory, maintaining a perfect 0 deaths across all four games while posting standout performances on Xayah and Jinx.

GALA finished the series without dying once, recording a 2/0/2 K/DA even in JDG's Game 1 loss. He then took over the remaining matches with a 6/0/8 performance on Xayah and a dominant 15/0/5 showing on Jinx. The series ended with GALA securing a pentakill on Jinx, bringing his career total to 14 pentakills, placing him second all-time in League of Legends history behind T1's Kim 'Peyz' Su-hwan, who holds the record with 17.

JDG will face Invictus Gaming in the LPL's fourth and final Worlds 2026 qualifier on September 19 at 5:00 am EDT. The winner will join Top Esports, Bilibili Gaming, and LPL champions Anyone's Legend at Worlds. According to Polymarket predictions, Invictus Gaming are slight favorites at 58%, though the teams have not faced each other this split after IG advanced from Group Nirvana.

Team WE will compete in the new Demacia Cup Global Invitational alongside other international teams that failed to qualify for Worlds.