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Twisted Minds are PGS champions again. They won the last PGS of 2026 on the final match, after a year in which the move to TPP left them chasing.
Twisted Minds have won PGS 12, the final PUBG Global Series event of 2026. The result comes from PUBG Esports’ own write-up, a column by caster Jisooboy. This is not an Australian story. It is here because PUBG sat third on Steam’s most-played chart on Wednesday night.
The finish was tight. After Match 14 of the 15-match Grand Finals, Twisted Minds had 119 points and eArena had 117. eArena had already taken a 10-kill Chicken Dinner in Match 11, and DN SOOPers were still in the chase. Twisted Minds closed it out with an 11-kill Chicken Dinner in the last match and finished on 140 points.
The column credits all four players. xmpl dealt 5,871 damage, 1,611 ahead of second-placed TGLTN on 4,260, and 3,572 of it came with DMRs. Perfect1ks took over the mortars and led the Grand Finals with four mortar kills. BatulinS made faster calls, and Lu returned to the form that had carried the team before.
It has been a hard year for them. Twisted Minds won three straight PGS titles in 2024, then the Esports World Cup and PGS 9 in 2025. PUBG Esports switched from FPP to TPP in 2026, and the team struggled to adapt. They were third at PEC Spring 2026 and PGS 4, then eighth at EWC 2026, where Virtus.pro took their title.
Jisooboy admits he had written them off. “I believed a comeback within 2026 was virtually impossible,” he writes.
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Source: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS – Twisted Minds crowned as PGS 12 Champions (Steam)