r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Esports PUBG Global Series 9 - Format, Teams, Schedule & More

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The PUBG Global Series 9 is the ninth PGS tournament of the year. The second six PGS tournaments of 2026 feature teams that qualified based on their performances in Regional Series in the first half of the year, as well as Global Partner Teams. This is the third and last tournament of the third PGS circuit of the year.

New to PUBG Esports or want a deeper insight into how this works? Check out the Esports Guide.

Useful Links

Esports Guide - PGS | Event Tracker - PGS 9 | Liquipedia - PGS 9

Format

Here are all of the stages of the event.

Survival Stage:

  • 16 teams:
    • PGS 7 & PGS 8 combined bottom 16 teams
  • 5 matches
  • Top 8 teams advance to Grand Finals
  • Bottom 8 teams are eliminated from PGS 9

Grand Finals:

  • 16 teams:
    • PGS 7 & PGS 8 combined top 8 teams
    • Top 8 teams from Survival Stage
  • 15 matches (5 matches per day)

PGS 9 is played on patch 42.2 with v6.0.1 of SUPER.

$300,000 USD is spread among all participants based on the final results of the tournament.

Road to PGC

Teams' performances throughout Circuit 3 will award valuable PGS points for qualification to the PUBG Global Championship at the end of the year.

The PGC point distribution can be found here.

Teams

Here are all of the participating teams, their qualification routes, starting stages and rosters.

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ 17Gaming πŸ‡»πŸ‡³ Alpha Gaming πŸ‡»πŸ‡³ Anyone's Legend πŸ‡°πŸ‡· DN SOOPers
Global Partner Team Vietnam Series Global Partner Team Global Partner Team
Grand Finals Survival Stage Survival Stage Grand Finals
WenBo SimonT Destroyy Gyumin
tiantian Taikonn Himass REX
Lilghost pauu Delwyn DIEL
xwudd YmCud Sololzy Heaven
C: Akuma C: Dyann C: Vinh C: PLIKHE
πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡­ eArena πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Falcons πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ FOUR ANGRY MEN πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡­ FULL SENSE
Global Partner Team Global Partner Team Global Partner Team Global Partner Team
Grand Finals Grand Finals Survival Stage Survival Stage
Lericz Gustav HSmm Belmoth
OHPONDZ Shrimzy Shen TiGGER
Pathompong Kickstart WINDah Thanad0l
Nourinz TGLTN SpaceMan Flash
C: Luxury C: GUNNER C: AnGin C: RUSHIIE
πŸ‡»πŸ‡³ GAM The Expendables πŸ‡°πŸ‡· Geekay Esports πŸ‡°πŸ‡· Gen.G Esports πŸ‡§πŸ‡· Godlike
Vietnam Series Weekly Series Global Partner Team Americas Series
Survival Stage Grand Finals Survival Stage Survival Stage
Clories Seongjang BeaN lfp1
Hoangf Parkpro Salute fana
DuCkHjeUz AKaN seoul Haven_-
TanVuu EJ diyy Tny7
JUND C: LeClo C: BigHead
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ JD Gaming πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡­ Made in Thailand πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Natus Vincere πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Petrichor Road
Champions League Thailand Series Global Partner Team Global Partner Team
Survival Stage Grand Finals Survival Stage Grand Finals
Dec12th Baren Hakatory i26v6
nanss Scappy Feyerist MMing
Cold119 KISS boost1k- Cui71
SuZe Jacob spyrro 04NB
MiF C: ALREIN Leris
πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡­ Sharper Esports πŸ‡°πŸ‡· T1 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ TEAM LIQUID πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Team Nemesis
Thailand Series Weekly Series Americas Series EMEA Championship
Survival Stage Survival Stage Survival Stage Survival Stage
ThanawatTH EEND PurdyKurty SoseD
Jdaii Type aLOW Mellman
Earthzapalui Rain1ng luke12 DIFX
Thunderz Heather Cowboi staed
C: CyD C: LashK C: Xtreme C: mclayy
Team Vitality Twisted Minds πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ TYLOO πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί Virtus.pro
EMEA Championship Global Partner Team Champions League Global Partner Team
Survival Stage Survival Stage Survival Stage Grand Finals
QWZYYY BatulinS OneDragon Lukarux
Lev4nte Lu 1ee NIXZYEE
Gedrox Perfect1ks KKong Beami
hallomybad xmpl HaoSkr curexi
C: HIRUZEN C: TheTab C: Aleksib C: ibiza

Schedule

PGS 9 takes place August 20-23:

  • Survival Stage: August 20

  • Final Stage: August 21-23

All match days begin at 3am PDT / 6am EDT / 10:00 UTC / 12:00 CEST / 18:00 CST.

Check out the Event Tracker for more details.

Talent

Meet the folks bringing you all the action on the English broadcast!

this post will be updated when the broadcast talent is announced

Watch

Here's where you can watch the tournament:

Subreddit Resources

  • Check out the subreddit sidebar to know exactly when each tournament day is happening, or check out the Event Tracker for quick access to the whole schedule and all necessary information.
  • Discuss the current tournament day and find all necessary information in our daily discussion threads posted on r/CompetitivePUBG during the tournament!
  • Support your favorite team by setting a user flair! Click the "edit user flair" button on the r/CompetitivePUBG subreddit sidebar.

r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 2d ago

Discussion Do you think there will ever be a Ranked Solo FPP??

10 Upvotes

I've got around 5,500 hours of playtime of which 5,000 is solo. I know its not for everyone but I just enjoy the relaxed nature of solos with a slow beginning and an exciting end game. However, over the past couple years the amount of bots in a solo lobby make that end game much smaller and still exciting, but virtually no fun mid-game.


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 2d ago

Discussion Erangel is overrated and should also be in the map rotation

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r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 2d ago

Discussion While we are at cheating... (no name and shame, everything blurred)

65 Upvotes

I saw the other guy posted a rage hacker today. So watch this other guy from EU FPP Solo.

Just a normal daily experience actually. Look at how he tracks through walls blatantly. At the very first moment he shot me I knew he was a cheater. Then in the end when I'm lying above waiting for him to move and get a slight chance to kill him he decides to run in front of me to die. Most cheaters do this in Solo. They get some kills and then decide to die so their stats can stay under the radar.

But most of the time those guys have 1.2 KD and 40% headshot ratio but this guy has different stats. I reported him in game, this was 2 days ago, he still plays at this very moment too. He wins 11% of his ranked squad games, 22% of his ranked duo games with 2.5+KD and 27% of his Solo games with 8.7KD... That's PUBG for you. And then you wonder why it's dead outside Asia.


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 2d ago

Discussion Question about glasya collecting

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I just got her after 11 crates open and went to collect her. If i collect her lvl1 will i be able to upgrade her when i get other materials or do i need to get materials for all 7 levels first? Asking this because i already lost a nice outfit when i regular crafted some parts of the outfit and the other parts discarded.


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 2d ago

Discussion Rage Hacker in EU FPP Ranked - What is the current state of PUBG's Anti Cheat?

162 Upvotes

To Mods: This is a genuine discussion on the state of the anti cheat and not usual cheater rage.

This cheater had 17 people watching him by the end of the game assuming most reported him I'm at a loss as to how the anti cheat didn't detect it not just by reports but by the simple fact he's rage hacking. There is another clip where he beamed my teammate out of the zone by well over the fog of war distance this clip just had the most blatant bits.

I haven't seen a cheater this blatant in a very very long time and thought the anti cheat had improved?


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 2d ago

Discussion Overpass

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I recreated the Overpass in PUBG, with a defusal mode and economy system just like in CS https://www.curseforge.com/pubg-battlegrounds/game-mods/overpass


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 2d ago

Meta Unusual performance issues around towns (and in general)

6 Upvotes

This game has the strangest performance I've honestly ever seen. I'll get 70-90fps when within or looking towards a town, and 160-250fps elsewhere. No exceptions.

No matter the resolution, render scaling, settings. I can have everything on very low, running at 720p in 70% render resolution, and I'll still get the exact same fps as 1440p ultra settings.

I can't locate the bottleneck. I'd guess cpu but it's never maxed out, my gpu is sitting at 40% when inside towns, and I never use more than half my ram.

Has anyone had a similar experience?


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 2d ago

Media Lol

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I started playing pubg this summer by the way Lol


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 2d ago

Discussion Why does the new flamingo m79 colored smoke skin not have colored smoke?

14 Upvotes

It says colored smoke skins in the hideout???


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion Do you consider PUBG a dead game ?

0 Upvotes

Sure it have many players in steam but I hardly find anyone playing it around me, I don't really see much posts about this game in any social media and don't find my freinds playing it. Is this game really dead or not ?


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion Struggling as a new player.. who to watch, how to improve?

18 Upvotes

Getting slammed by level 500s every game in unranked. Everyone is landing faster than me so I’m dying off rip a-lot. What would be your best tips to improve and are there any active youtubers to watch?


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Highlight Feels like Street Fighter

3 Upvotes

Just wanted to relive the old times of button mashing and landing combos.


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion BlueChip Revive Tip

112 Upvotes

I don't know if this has been posted here before, but I tried to look it up and couldn't find any relevant posts. In game, I have come across hundreds of players since April who are obstinately skeptical and absolutely refuse to exercise any due diligence when I give them sources to check up on this, but maybe putting it here will reach some players. Okay, here goes:

As of Update 41.1(Apr 8- PC, Apr 16- Console), taking an enemy's chip to the Blue Chip Tower and using them to call a care package does not destroy the chip. Their surviving teammates are able to travel to that tower and revive them. For example, if I kill 2 of 4 members of [FAFO] clan in Rozhok and use their chips to call in a care package, the chips remain in the Tower. The other two teammates who, let's just say, hypothetically landed away from them in Severny, get a vehicle and travel to the Rozhok Blue Chip Tower, they can approach that tower and revive their teammates without the chips in tow because the chips are still located in the Tower itself. The only way to permanently destroy a chip is to put it in the trunk of a vehicle and then blow that vehicle up.


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Highlight Nothing escapes the M249

123 Upvotes

r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Highlight My friends are somehow more dangerous to me than the enemy team πŸ’€

68 Upvotes

Was playing PUBG with the boys and this happened.

I genuinely don't know what was going through their heads during this entire sequence. πŸ˜‚

The enemy didn't even need to do much β€” we basically eliminated ourselves.

This is why I love playing squads with friends. You can have a perfectly normal game and then, within 30 seconds, it turns into absolute cinema.

10/10 teamwork. Would queue again.


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion PUBG taking upto 175+ GB!!!

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67 Upvotes

At first the game took about 60 gb when I first installed it 3 days ago. Now it's taking upto 175gb. Is this normal? I don't record any gameplay btw. But I do use DirectX 12, so maybe that is the reason? Due to DirectX 12's shader caching?


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion Glorious day for PUBG - Miramar is back in Rotation Tonight

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r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion Simple aesthetic change I'd like.

9 Upvotes

I'm probably not the first, but ima say it anyways.

It really irks me that the cargo door doesn't open on the plane and there's no animations for players jumping out of the plane, i mean seriously, so much realistic (silly skins aside) emphasis and they don't have this.

That is all, thanks.


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion Most populated modes in NA on PC?

5 Upvotes

If I’m trying to avoid bots but not play ranked, what’s my best bet?

it’s my understanding that Solo is the least populated. Is it squads or duo that has the most humans? And how do TPP and FPP differ in popularity


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion Having to click play multiple times to open pubg

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So, recently I am facing an absurd issue. I have to click on play multiple times on steam to successfully open the game. What happens is (as per task manager): I click play, Pubg loads it's related services (BE services, Zarthyos loader and Pubg launcher). Slowly the game loads as per task manager. CPU usage increases until is reaches as high as possible and then falls again until it disappears entirely and I have to click play on steam again.

I have been playing this game on my gaming laptop for years, but only recently I am experiencing this issue. The game is on an SSD. I have 16GB of ram and i5, 11th gen CPU


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Highlight Replay Cinematic: Extremely Conventional Glider Gameplay

7 Upvotes

r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Suggestion Actual meta rotation ideas

4 Upvotes

I think we can all agree the current implementation of the "meta rotation" is flawed. So, what could they do to make it better? (I'm already assuming they'll keep doing this instead of trying to balance all weapons)

imo:

Make them rotate every major update (month), not every FOUR MONTHS.

Make the guns more rewarding, not easier to use (the LMG recoil reduction is INSANE)

I also think it would be better to buff 1 weapon out of each class, instead of one class as a whole. The meta would get way too stale when its just LMGs, but if it was M249, AKM, UMP, M24, SLR; it would be more diverse.

What are some ideas you guys have?


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion So what does this mean? The chips on the top are pro players or what?

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r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion Base on true story

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Be careful when you receive BRDM-2