Some of the best 2XKO players in the world are competing at Texas Showdown 2026, including SonicFox and Hikari. The details are here!
The official 2XKO Competitive Series took a break after the first official Major at Frosty Faustings. However the top esports tournaments have returned with two Challenger-tier events in different regions. Texas Showdown 2026 covers North America, featuring legendary tag-team competitors, such as SonicFox, INZEM, and Hikari.
How to watch the 2XKO Texas Showdown 2026 tournament: Stream
Three different Twitch channels stream the Texas Showdown 2026 2XKO tournament.
- Friday pools: fullbaresports
- Saturday pools and top 24: bifuteki
- Sunday top 8: TXShowdownLive
Schedule
The full Texas Showdown 2026 schedule is on the official website here. It includes all of the games. For the 2XKO tournament schedule, take a look at the image below.
2KXO results at Texas Showdown 2026
The tournament has the official support from Riot Games as a Challenger event in the 2XKO Competitive Series. Check out the top 8 brackets below, including the character teams.
| Winners semifinals | Winners final | Grand final |
|---|---|---|
| bleed 2:0 Ronnichu Ekko / Illaoi vs Yasuo / Ahri | bleed 1:3 INZEM / SonicFox Ekko / Illaoi vs Teemo / Ahri | INZEM / SonicFox 3:1 bleed Teemo / Ahri vs Ekko / Illaoi |
| Globo 0:2 INZEM / SonicFox Teemo / Yasuo vs Teemo / Ahri |
| Losers round 1 | Losers quarterfinals | Losers semifinal | Losers final |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dylnyan 1:2 JakeyTheSnakey Ahri / Blitzcrank vs Ekko / Jinx | Globo 1:2 JakeyTheSnakey Teemo / Yasuo vs Ekko / Jinx | JakeyTheSnakey 0:2 Ronnichu Jinx / Ekko vs Yasuo / Ahri | bleed 3:1 Ronnichu Ekko / Illaoi vs Yasuo / Ahri |
| pink 2:1 Archer_Rules Ekko / Illaoi vs Vi / Illaoi | Ronnichu 2:0 pink Yasuo / Ahri vs Ekko / Illaoi |
SonicFox and Inzem faced the Major winner, bleed, twice in the upper brackets — and they won confidently both matches.
There were no team changes for bleed compared to Frosty Faustings. The same goes for INZEM / SonicFox.
- The 2XKO champions at Texas Showdown 2026 and the team SonicFox and INZEM!
Final standings
| Placement | Player | 2XKO characters |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Shopify Rebellion | INZEM FlyQuest | SonicFox | Teemo Ahri |
| 2nd | ONi Global | bleed | Ekko / Illaoi |
| 3rd | S-Tier Gaming | Ronnichu | Yasuo / Ahri |
| 4th | ONi Global | JakeyTheSnakey | Jinx / Ekko |
| 5th–6th | Globo | Teemo / Yasuo |
| 5th–6th | S-Tier Gaming | pink | Ekko / Illaoi |
| 7th–8th | S-Tier Gaming | Dylnyan | Ahri / Blitzcrank |
| 7th–8th | Archer_Rules | Vi / Illaoi |
Top players to deal with Yasuo and Ekko nerfs
For a pretty long time, Yasuo and Ekko were considered broken in 2XKO. The Frosty Faustings winner, bleed, even created a special category for them in his 2XKO tier list, with a gap between it and the usual S-tier.
Both characters were heavily nerfed recently, and Texas Showdown 2026 is the first 2XKO esports tournament in the adjusted meta. Many top players at Texas Showdown previously used Yasuo and Ekko on their teams, and they will now have to adapt to the changes.
- Bleed won the first-ever 2XKO Major with Illaoi/Ekko.
- Globo was 3rd at Frosty Faustings XVIII, and he played Teemo/Yasuo.
- Hikari, the DBFZ legend, had both these characters since his team was Ekko/Yasuo.
As the tournament is in the mixed mode, duos can join the general pools. SonicFox and INZEM have formed a stable team, and they’re in Texas Showdown, too. Their previous team was Ahri for SonicFox and Teemo for INZEM.
The second 2XKO Challenger tournament happens in Europe on the same weekend: it’s viennality XL from March 28 to March 29. Then, we’ll be able to witness the second Major at Evo Japan 2026, from May 1 to May 3.