PUBG Mobile Asian Games Finals: Korea Finish Sixth Overall

Korea End Sixth at PUBG Mobile Asian Games 2026

South Korea's PUBG Mobile campaign at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026 finished in sixth place, with the five-man squad falling just short of a medal after two days of battle royale action at the Aichi Sky Expo in Tokoname, Japan, on September 28 and 29, 2026.

Korea sent Kim Jun-ha, Park Sang-chul, Song Su-an, Jeon Hyun-bin and Jung Yu-chan to represent the country, and the team played all 12 matches across the tournament. Points came at 10 for a 1st place finish, 6 for 2nd and 5 for 3rd, plus 1 point for every opponent eliminated. The squad closed the tournament with 36 kills, one chicken dinner and 71 points total, finishing sixth.

Thailand took gold on 128 points, China silver on 114, and Pakistan bronze on 100. Indonesia finished 4th on 95, missing bronze by just five points.

Day 2 Opened With a Chicken Dinner

Korea came into Day 2 sitting 6th on 38 points, chasing back-to-back medals after silver at Hangzhou. Match 7 gave the team real belief. They played patient PUBG, kept all four players alive into the top four and won the final fight against China for 6 kills - 10 placement points plus 6 kill points, 16 in total, and their first Chicken Dinner of the tournament.

That momentum vanished quickly. Match 8 brought nothing against China and others, and the next game ended in 7th for a single placement point after Korea's rotations collided with half the lobby inside the shrinking zone. They bounced back with 7 points in a game where they took down Chinese Taipei and Vietnam, only to be wiped out by Indonesia while trying to secure better ground. The last two matches gave no relief: 4 kills against Uzbekistan but a player lost early, an 8th-place finish, and 5 points. Those quiet matches were the fatal stretch.

The Gap Never Closed

By the closing stages Thailand were running away on 125, China sat on 97, and Indonesia and Pakistan were tied on 93. The gap between Korea and bronze had stretched to 26 points, and there simply were not enough matches left to claw it back. Korea added 33 points on the day for 71 overall and 6th place.

Thailand Cruise to Gold as Pakistan Snatch Bronze

The final round saw Thailand sitting on a 28-point cushion over second place, so they played it safe outside the late blue zone while Pakistan and China scrapped for a last-minute rank swap. Myanmar, stuck in 12th, pulled off a surprise by wiping out Thailand on a hill in the closing skirmish, but it changed nothing at the top.

Korea did survive into the last four in that final match, only to go out in 4th. Japan, who had been down in 11th, took a late Chicken Dinner after a tight fight with Malaysia to climb to 8th. Thailand, China and Pakistan walked away with the medals.

Indonesia Fall Five Points Short of Bronze

Indonesia were the story of Day 1. Six matches in, they sat 3rd on 55 points behind Thailand (75) and China (61), with Vietnam on 51 behind them. Their best round was Match 3, where they banked 18 points as the highest-scoring squad of that game.

Consistency was the problem. Strong rounds were followed by low-scoring ones, and coach Deni Fianda had already said before the decider that no big changes were needed, just better discipline. Indonesia went into the last six matches with their medal hopes alive and were still in the hunt during the final match on Miramar, but the closing game slipped away.

Day 1 Recap

Korea's campaign got off to a rocky start, managing just 15 points from the first three matches. A poor Match 4 (2 kills, 1 placement point) dropped them to 8th on 18 points. Match 5 added 7 more, but with Vietnam taking a Chicken Dinner and 17 points, the medal gap stretched to 25.

Match 6 was the comeback. Korea survived deep, finished 2nd and racked up 7 kills for 13 points - the second-best haul of the match behind Thailand's 23. That pushed Korea past Japan and Uzbekistan into 6th overall and cut the medal gap to 17 points.

Top 6 After Day 1

1. Thailand - 75 points
2. China - 61 points
3. Indonesia - 55 points
4. Vietnam - 51 points
5. Pakistan - 39 points
6. South Korea - 38 points

Thailand and Vietnam each claimed two Chicken Dinners on Day 1, while China and Indonesia grabbed one apiece. Korea's 38 points came from 15 placement points and 23 kill points.

Qualification Recap

The 12-team final field was set through a qualifier stage featuring national Olympic committee teams from 27 countries. The lineup:

• Eight teams from the preliminary finals held last June in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• The three medal-winning teams from the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games
• Host nation Japan

Pakistan topped the prelims after three gruelling days where 23 squads fought for spots. The 12 participating nations are Japan, China, South Korea, Chinese Taipei, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Jordan, and Pakistan.

Format And Maps

The tournament ran over two days with six matches per day, totalling 12 matches. The first four matches each day were on Erangel, the grassland-plus-city map, and the remaining two on Miramar, the desert map. Final standings were decided by combining placement and kill points across both days.

A Very Different PUBG From Hangzhou

The PUBG Mobile medal event at the Asian Games looked nothing like Hangzhou three years ago. Back then players did not fight each other at all - they drove vehicles through set courses, hit targets and raced the clock. Korea took silver behind China in that format with a time of 50 minutes, 25.039 seconds.

This time the battle royale format was back, so teams had to drop in, loot up, eliminate opponents and survive the closing blue zone to the very last circle. It is the second straight Asian Games where PUBG Mobile has been an official medal event, after Hangzhou.

Esports Stays in the Asian Games

There has been plenty of chatter about esports possibly being dropped from the Asian Games. The Olympic Council of Asia has said esports will continue to be featured at the Games, which keeps PUBG Mobile's spot on the medal roster safe for future editions.

What Korea Missed

Korea needed to keep stacking placement points and take early fights on Day 2, but two near-blank matches in the middle of the day killed the chase. Japan had home turf cheers behind them as they climbed to 8th. Korea, silver medalists at Hangzhou, were eyeing an upgrade to gold but will have to settle for 6th. China and Chinese Taipei, who took gold and bronze respectively in 2022, remained in the hunt - China converting that into silver this time.

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For Indian fans tracking the Asian Games PUBG Mobile finals results, the takeaway is simple: South Korea's one big Chicken Dinner on Day 2 was not enough to cover two near-blank matches, while Thailand's consistency across 12 matches made the gold look routine.