ESL One Birmingham 2026 qualifiers — All qualifier results

The new Dota 2 season continues in 2026, with the ESL One Birmingham regional qualifiers chugging along as the third such tournament in the month of January.

Teams all over the world are currently vying for the right to play Dota at the highest level in the United Kingdom later this year, which will naturally give us an even more complete picture of how each club stacks up against the rest right now.

Southeast Asia — REKONIX

It’s pretty safe to say that Indonesian squad REKONIX are on fire right now, after having qualified for both DreamLeague Season 28 and now ESL One Birmingham as well. They also defeated the same opponents in the form of Execration in order to qualify for Birmingham, so it’s clear that we’re starting to see a fierce rivalry forming between these two clubs forming in real time. It wasn’t very close, either — REKONIX pretty much ran away with the series in four games.

WE ARE GOING TO BRIMINGHAM!!!! Lower bracket run every match is an elimination, but we survived. GGWP @ExecrationGG see you at another series~
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Let’s make Dota Indo great again — the REKONIX way 💜⚡#GGRKX #REKONIX pic.twitter.com/1qEM10seyd

— REKONIX (@rekonixofficial) January 18, 2026

And even though I might be a homer for Filipino teams, I am all for exciting competition in the region. It’s always great to see new faces come out of Southeast Asia, so I’m definitely rooting for REKONIX to keep being successful as far as qualifiers go.

Eastern Europe — BetBoom Team & Aurora Gaming

No surprises whatsoever here. BetBoom Team and Aurora Gaming both swept their respective final matches in the Eastern European qualifiers, thus solidifying their positions as two of the top teams from the region.

🥳 WE QUALIFIED AT ESL One Birmingham 2026 🥳 pic.twitter.com/yGoOWLK1gf

— Aurora Dota2 (@AuroraDota2_GG) January 18, 2026

Seeing these two clubs in particular come out of qualifiers on the regular should become familiar to all Dota fans as this season progresses, unless some other roster like AVULUS or 1w Team can upset the natural order.

Western Europe — Team Falcons & TBD

Team Falcons came out of the Western European qualifiers first without breaking much of a sweat, dropping only one map on their way to the upper bracket finals. Only Zero Tenacity gave them any sort of pause here, and even then it took almost 73 minutes of play for Zero Tenacity to put them away in game 2. Falcons then locked in and closed things out in game 3.

The defending International champions can’t really afford to drop the ball at any qualifier tournament right now, given their not-so-great form as of late. Their consistency has been kind of questionable over the last month or so, but it would have set off some huge alarm bells if those issues showed up here as well. They won the whole tournament last time they were at ESL One Birmingham, so they’ve also got a title to defend.

North America — GamerLegion

If you’re only finding out that GamerLegion qualified for ESL One Birmingham through this article, there’s one thing you should know: they almost got swept by Rottweilas LATAM. Yes, there was a point earlier today when Guilherme “Costabile” Costábile and the rest of his team were one game away from shutting GamerLegion out of this tournament and completing the biggest upset in North America.

Fortunately for GamerLegion, they were able to execute the reverse sweep — but this really isn’t a good sign with regards to their chances at Birmingham. If they were this close to dropping three straight games in a qualification match, then I’m not sure they’ll be able to place any higher than dead last in the UK if I’m being honest.

But anyway, at least they got it done in the end. A W is a W, right?

South America — TBD

China — TBD