7月4日，在孟买举行的2026年印度崛起总决赛中，特级大师 Benjamin Bok 击败特级大师 Vidit Gujrathi，成功获得2026年电子竞技世界杯参赛资格。
这场比赛过程极为胶着，全部三盘对局均通过绝杀加赛决出胜负。Bok 以3-2赢下第一盘，以2-3输掉第二盘，并在决胜的第三盘中，凭借在最后一场绝杀局中执白获胜，以2-1的比分锁定胜局。
本次赛事采用三盘两胜制，前两盘各包含四局比赛，第三盘则采用三局两胜制。所有平局均通过叫价绝杀局进行决胜。Bok 在季后赛中先后击败了特级大师 Karthikeyan Murali 和 Arjun Erigaisi，而 Vidit 则淘汰了特级大师 M Pranesh 和 Raunak Sadhwani。
凭借此次胜利，Bok 获得了参赛资格以及约1万美元的奖金。他在赛后评论决胜局时表示：“我当时觉得局面很艰难，但当我赢下一枚兵后，我就对自己的位置抱有很大希望。后来不知怎么的，他的防守就崩溃了。”电子竞技世界杯定于8月14日至15日在巴黎举行。
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