BlizzCon 2026 WoW Schedule: Panels, MDI and AWC Grand Finals

When BlizzCon 2026 runs and how to watch

BlizzCon 2026 runs on Saturday September 12 and Sunday September 13 at the Anaheim Convention Center, and Blizzard has published the full World of Warcraft running order for both days. The broadcast is free to watch on the official Warcraft channel on Twitch, the official World of Warcraft channel on YouTube, and on BlizzCon.com.

Day one front-loads the announcements: the Opening Ceremony, both What's Next segments, the Developers x Creators showcase, and the Mythic Dungeon International Grand Finals running alongside them. Day two is the design day, and it is where every arena match sits: the deep dives, the Housing and World Building panels, and the Arena World Championship Grand Finals, closing with the trophy ceremony.

All times here are Pacific Daylight Time, which is how Blizzard publishes the schedule. BST is eight hours ahead and CEST is nine, so a 10:30 a.m. PDT segment opens at 6:30 p.m. in London and 7:30 p.m. in Berlin, and anything from 4:00 p.m. PDT onward falls after midnight in Europe.

Saturday September 12: the World of Warcraft schedule

The two What's Next segments both sit before the Developers x Creators showcase, so a viewer with only a couple of hours to spend gets the most from the middle of the day. The MDI runs across the same afternoon.

The four Mythic Dungeon International teams, the best-of-three and best-of-five formats and the Season 2 dungeon pool they play on are set out in the MDI 2026 Grand Finals bracket and schedule.

Sunday September 13: the World of Warcraft schedule

Sunday alternates a panel with an arena match for most of the day, so the two do not overlap heavily. The Deep Dive that opens the day is the longest-form World of Warcraft segment of the weekend.

Two of Sunday's arena slots are still listed against an opponent to be determined, because Echo and Gators Back are seeded into the second round and their opponents come out of the two morning matches.

Where PvP sits across the two days

Every arena match at BlizzCon 2026 is on Sunday. Six teams contest the AWC Grand Finals in a single elimination bracket, Echo and Gators Back have byes into the second round, and the championship match starts at 5:00 p.m. PDT, which is 1:00 a.m. BST on September 14. The full bracket, the qualifying route each team took and the prize split are in the AWC 2026 Grand Finals bracket and schedule.

No PvP-specific panel appears in the running order, so the two segments to watch for season, reward or tuning direction are World of Warcraft: What's Next at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday and the Deep Dive at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday. Both are announcement slots rather than gameplay showcases.

If the reason you are watching the arena is to work out what to queue on Monday, the ladder is the other half of the picture. A championship bracket is six teams playing a prepared best-of series, and the compositions that win it are not automatically the ones carrying rating for everyone else. The live tier list is what the current season is actually playing.

Compare that against what the finalists bring on Sunday using the 3v3 composition breakdowns for EU and US, or the spec representation on the EU and US 3v3 meta pages.

What watching earns you

Watching the broadcast on a linked account earns in-game rewards at four cumulative watch-time thresholds, and eligibility differs between the Twitch and YouTube windows.

• 2 hours: 200 Trader's Tender
• 4 hours: Cuddly Blue Grrgle
• 8 hours: Fluffy Comfy Flying Quilt
• 12 hours: Venomous Champion's Illustrious Banner

Twelve hours is more than a single day of programming, so the 12-hour reward needs viewing across both days or across the longer Twitch window. Account linking, the exact reward windows and which platform covers which dates are set out in the BlizzCon 2026 WoW Drops guide.

What to do before Saturday

Link your Battle.net account to Twitch or YouTube before the Opening Ceremony rather than during it, since watch time only counts once the link is live. If you are chasing the 12-hour reward, start on Saturday morning.

For anything you want to have finished before the weekend takes over, the Winds of Mysterious Fortune event is running now, and the Midnight 12.1.5 content update overview covers what the What's Next segments will be building on. Rated players heading into the last week before the finals can check where the season currently stands on the EU and US cutoff pages.