Beijing WB Takes the KPL Annual Title in the League's First All-Beijing Final
Beijing WB beat Beijing JDG 4-3 in Chengdu on Saturday night to win the 2026 Honor of Kings annual final — the first 'Beijing derby' title match in the league's ten seasons. WB's exp-laner Zimo took the finals MVP and the signature skin that goes with it, while JDG's mid-laner Qingrong did everything but win: his game-six performance levelled the series and earned him a sympathy trend of his own.
Saturday night in Chengdu was staged like a cup final: the 2026 annual final of the Honor of Kings Pro League, a best-of-seven between Beijing JDG and Beijing WB, opened with live high notes from singer Zhou Shen — a booking that trended on its own — before the first dragon spawned. By the end, WB had taken the Sacred Dragon Cup 4-3, the league's first "Beijing derby" final in its tenth season settled in WB's favour.
That derby was the part the calendar had never managed before. JDG and WB share a city but had never met with the year's biggest prize at stake; tickets for the Chengdu final sold out as soon as they went up, Beijing fans flew down for the night, and those who stayed home gathered at university viewing points around the country.
The night split cleanly in two. JDG looked the stronger side for long stretches, and in game six their mid-laner Qingrong produced the best individual performance of the final, a Hainuo display that levelled the series at 3-3 and took the game's MVP.
The tag that followed him off stage — #清融尽力#, "Qingrong did all he could" — was sympathy, not blame. "A desperate mid-laner who answered to everyone," read one post. Fans know his arc: Qingrong left a dynasty roster to start over in a B-group side, and, as one long defence of him put it, has spent recent seasons watching his own team draft around him.
The rest of JDG got no such mercy. Marksman Xiao Han trended as #小寒梦游# — "sleepwalking" — for errors at the decisive moments, critics asking why the rookie marksman opposite him still won the lane repeatedly. And when the favourites fell short, the joke tag #八冠神罚# — "divine punishment for the eighth crown" — arrived with arithmetic attached: "you have seven titles, don't you?" one post needled at JDG's veteran Fly, whose title count stopped where WB's night began.
The finals MVP — and with it the signature in-game skin KPL awards the final's standout player — went to WB's exp-laner Zimo, Wu Zhejie, whom the league credited with holding the front line all night and breaking it open at the right moments. The pick had its dissenters, though on WB's own side: some fans argued the award belonged to jungler Nuan Yang, already a three-time finals MVP, who had carried the evening. WB's championship post topped 30,000 likes. JDG's account, by contrast, is still standing by its game-six play-by-play — the moment the series read 3-3, and the last thing it had to cheer.