PUBG Mobile has already announced its 2026 esports roadmap, which shows multiple significant alterations to the organisation of competitive events next year. The new scheme is centered on the expansion of world tournaments with an increase in the availability of teams in the various regions.
PUBG Mobile esports will be split into two seasons in 2026. Every season will have national and regional qualifiers which will culminate in PUBG Mobile Global Open (PMGO). KRAFTON states that over 30 PUBG Mobile National Championship events will be organized in more than eight regions of the world. Teams that are successful in the regional finals will be granted in the PMGO tournaments.
The PMGO format is also upgraded. Rather than the one event the year will now be two Global Open tournaments. The teams that compete in these events will gain points and this will enable them to qualify in the PUBG Mobile Global Championship further into the season.
The professional teams will invite qualifiers, based on their performance in the 2025 competitive season.
The first massive event of the year 2026 will be PUBG Mobile Global Open Season 1. This will be done in Southeast Asia and the location with which the tournament will be done remains to be announced and the teams will be competing in a pool of prizes amounting to $500,000. The PUBG Mobile World Cup will be reintroduced after this incident as the Esports World Cup in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the prize pool will be massive 3 million dollars.
Later in the year, PUBG Mobile Global Open Season 2 will take place in Pakistan where the prize pool will be 500,000. At the very end of the competitive season, the global championship of the PUBG Mobile will be organized in Turkey, and the teams will compete against another 3 million dollars. The sum total of the prize money in all the four major events in the year 2026 will be 7 million dollars.
Besides the shift in tournaments, PUBG Mobile will enhance its tournament participation system within the game and its entertainment value at the offline events. KRAFTON also tries to leverage the third-party tournament organisers by enhancing the platform specifically designed to assist their activities so that organisers find it easy to apply and conduct official events.
Unless abruptly the goal switches to 2026, PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2025 Grand Finals is currently being conducted in Bangkok, Thailand. It is a three-day tournament, which is held on the 12 th up to the 14 th of December whereby sixteen teams compete to emerge as the world champions. Dplus is a defending champion yet on the way of becoming a winner of the trophy again.
The whole action may be watched in real-time through the official twitch, YouTube and Tik Tok channels of PUBG Mobile.
