# GodLike Wins BMPS 2026, Orangutan Qualifies for EWC Paris

> GodLike Esports are the BMPS 2026 winner and join Orangutan as India's EWC 2026 teams in Paris. Full result, redemption story, awards and what it means.

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Author: Chandan Kumar Maurya
Category: Indian gaming
Published: 2026-06-22
Reading time: 6 min read

## Article

GodLike fans, you can exhale now. After years of finals heartbreak and "next time" promises, **GodLike Esports are the BMPS 2026 champions** — and they did it the hard way, clawing back from dead last to lift their first official BGMI major. They won't be travelling to Paris alone, either. **Orangutan claimed India's second Esports World Cup 2026 slot on the back of their own performance**, which means two Indian squads are heading to the global stage.

And honestly? The tournament off the server was almost as big a story as the one on it. BMPS 2026 pulled numbers Indian BGMI hadn't seen in years.

## BMPS 2026 Champions: GodLike Esports End the Long Wait

Let's not pretend this one was straightforward. [GodLike eSports](/team/godlike-esports) opened the Grand Finals in Jaipur, sitting 16th — rock bottom, 20 points, the kind of Day 1 that usually ends a title run before it starts. Then they flipped it. A monster Day 2 dragged them back into contention, and on the final day, [Manya](/player/manya)'s squad ran down the leaders to finish on 162 points with a couple of chicken dinners and triple-digit kills.

For a team that's been the bridesmaid more times than anyone cares to count, this is the one that matters. It's GodLike's **first official BGMI major** as an org, and it comes with the ₹1 crore champions' cheque. Their previous best at this event was a third-place finish (second runner-up) at **BMPS 2024** – close, but not the trophy. This time the trophy's theirs.

### Be like GodLike: the redemption arc that shut the haters up

If you want the full weight of this win, you have to rewind a few months—because GodLike walked into BMPS 2026 carrying more baggage than almost any team in the field.

It started after **BGIS 2026**, where GodLike came up short with a 5-place finish, and the criticism started rolling in. Then came the [Jonathan](/player/jonathan) saga. The face of the org for nearly seven years was first seen sitting on the bench and then unfollowed Kronten and the GodLike handle on Instagram, and the news everyone feared got confirmed: Jonathan was leaving. He walked in April 2026 to build his own [Team Apex Gaming](/team/team-apex-gaming) — and a chunk of **GodLike's** *own* fanbase turned on the team for it. The numbers told the story too: followers slipped, viewership dipped, the likes dried up. By the time the rebuilt roster lined up for BMPS, plenty of people had already written them off.

Then they let the game do the talking. A strong qualifier run made **GodLike **one of the first eight teams to lock a direct ticket to the *Jaipur Grand Finals*. The finals opened ugly — dead last after Day 1 — before an above-average Day 2 pulled them back into the fight. And on Day 3, Manya's squad climbed all the way to the top to be crowned champions. In a full-circle twist nobody scripted, [Jonathan](/player/jonathan) was right there at the same event with his new [Team Apex Gaming](/team/team-apex-gaming), who finished fifth — and he walked away with the **BMPS 2026 Eliminator award**. The trophy, the EWC ticket, the redemption – GodLike answered every bit of the hate the only way that actually shuts it down: by winning.

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### BMPS 2026 Individual Awards

The personal honours were spread around, with GodLike's ScaryJod walking away with two of them — including the headline MVP award. And in a fitting nod to the storyline, Jonathan picked up The Eliminator.

> Award Player Prize (INR) Prize (USD) 
> MVP [ScaryJod](https://liquipedia.net/pubgmobile/ScaryJod) ₹4,00,000 
> Finals MVP [Slug](https://liquipedia.net/pubgmobile/Slug) ₹2,00,000 
> Best IGL [Aadi](https://liquipedia.net/pubgmobile/Aadi) ₹2,50,000 
> Best Clutch [ScaryJod](https://liquipedia.net/pubgmobile/ScaryJod) ₹1,00,000 
> The Eliminator [Jonathan](/player/jonathan)

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So what actually is BMPS?

If you're new here: BMPS, the **Battlegrounds Mobile India Pro Series**, is Krafton's official top-tier BGMI tournament in India. It's been running since 2022, and you don't just sign up for it — teams grind through qualifiers and survival stages to even reach the LAN finals, and a strong BGIS run usually feeds into an invite. That gatekeeping is exactly why winning it carries so much weight. It's the title every serious Indian roster builds their whole year around.

**BMPS 2026 **also did something the scene's been chasing for a while: it became the **most-watched BGMI esports event in India in eight years**. Reported figures put the peak at over **610,000 viewers** once you fold in the official stream and the community watch parties. That's not a small jump — that's the audience telling Krafton the appetite is very much still there.

## Orangutan Take the Second EWC Slot the Steady Way

**GodLike **grabbed one of India's two tickets as champions of BMPS 2026. [Orangutan](/team/orangutan) earned the other one on the strength of their own season – topping the **Krafton India Esports (KIE) global leaderboard** match after match. They didn't lift the **BMPS 2026** trophy (they finished sixth in the finals), but consistent performances across the whole campaign added up, and that body of work is what carried them to the slot.

It's not their first international rodeo either. **Orangutan already carried the flag at PMGC 2025,** so they arrive in Paris with some big-stage mileage behind them. Put it together, and India sends two very different stories to the EWC: GodLike riding a fairytale comeback and Orangutan turning up with quiet, season-long reliability.

### What's the EWC, and why should Indian fans care?

The **Esports World Cup** is one of the largest events in all of esports: dozens of games, the best clubs on the planet, and a prize pool that runs into the tens of millions. The BGMI/PUBG Mobile side of it is run as the **PUBG Mobile World Cup** under that same banner, and this year the whole thing lands in **Paris** after being shifted out of Riyadh.

Why it matters for India is pretty simple — these two seats are the only ones the country gets. This is where Indian orgs find out where they really stand against Southeast Asia, China and the rest, and a deep run does more than win prize money. It pulls in sponsors, it gets eyeballs on the scene, and it gives the next wave of players something to aim at. For a region that spent years locked out of global play, just being in the room is a statement.

#### iQOO Soul Win BGIS, Then Miss the Trip Entirely

Here's the gut-punch of the season. **iQOO Soul** walked in as **BGIS 2026 champions** – the team everyone expected to keep rolling. Instead, the rest of the year didn't go their way, and a flat showing when it counted left them outside both EWC slots.

So the BGIS champions stay home while two other teams fly to Paris. It's brutal, but it's also the clearest reminder of how this scene works: one trophy buys you nothing in the next tournament. You earn every slot fresh, every single time.

**GodLike got there on heart, Orangutan** on grind, and now both of them carry India's hopes into the EWC. Soul will be watching from the couch — and you can bet they'll have something to say about it next season.

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Last updated: 2026-06-22