KRÜ Blaze lost the opening map but then took the next three to beat Shopify Rebellion Gold 3-1 in the VCT Game Changers Championship 2026 playoffs. The best-of-five was played on Saturday, 31 October.
The result sends the Argentine-based side into the final and avenges their upper bracket semi-final defeat to the same opponent. Shopify Rebellion Gold's run at the event ends with the loss.
Shopify Rebellion Gold won the 47-minute first map. KRÜ Blaze levelled on the shortest map of the series at 37 minutes, then went ahead with a 50-minute third map. The fourth was the longest at 70 minutes, and KRÜ Blaze closed it out to end the series without a decider.
On 27 October, Shopify Rebellion Gold won the upper bracket semi-final 2-0, which sent KRÜ Blaze to the lower bracket. There they beat Team Liquid Brazil 2-0 in the quarter-finals and MIBR GC 2-0 in the semi-finals. They had opened their playoffs with a 2-1 win over Gen.G GC.
Shopify Rebellion Gold had beaten SK Nebula 2-0 in the upper bracket quarter-finals, but then lost 2-1 to Gentle Mates GC in the upper bracket final. KRÜ Blaze will meet Gentle Mates GC in the final on Sunday, 1 November. Gentle Mates GC reached the final unbeaten in the playoffs.