In near complete domination, David Neumann, known for his NLHE Heads-Up skills, is crowned the 2026 Gundam Heads-Up Champion. Not losing a single-match and only losing two-games out of 10 games played, David breezed through the winners bracket and onto Championship victory over Linux, the 2024 Champion who took 2nd place.
The WSOG ’26 Fifth Event picked up in participation slightly (17 players), and established the Recharge as a staple event in the WSOG.
With a few new rules in 2026 and a hopeful increase in participation, the 2026 season went off without a hitch. A few of the new rules are:
Only 11 of the 12 Events will be counted towards the final Gundam Point Total
In order to (by default) enter a tournament late a player must pre-register for the tournament.
Bounty points awarded are NOT also subtracted from the Gundam Point Leader. This allows for a bounty to be placed on the ‘participating’ player with the most bounty points (not necessarily the Gundam point leader.) It also allowed for a bounty to be placed on the 1st event of the year.
Start times have changed to 8:30 PM EST
Tie for 1st place will result in a match-up to determine the Gundam Champion.
It was a good turnout for the fun Recharge event. While Fokermon jump to a quick lead getting the FastBreak and held it most the tournament knocking out MagKirwin for the Bounty until dropping out in 3rd. It was Godel and TimTheGreat who seemed to pour it on at the end, taking out Linux in 4th (who withstood some minor bad beats) and bubbling CouldBeCarm who got the Chip&Chair bonus. In the end Godel had to use some of his recharges late to move up a couple of spots, while TimTheGreat got bloodied with 3 players to go.
DeckHole started out of the gate fast collecting the Fast-Break Bonus, but took a few serious hits to his stack mid-game, while Tim-The-Great (who was injured early on) fought back to a 2nd place finish and earning the Chip-n-Chair bonus. A very stealthy Micra lurked throughout the tournament finishing a strong 3rd place, while Yim Yames took a roller-coaster to 4th knocking out Scott-Rigged on the way (getting the bounty.) SouthKing, a chip-leader for most of the tournament, took some hits late in the tournament to finish in 5th, while Scott-Rigged managed to bubble in 6th.
The World Series of Gundam is taking off in 2026 with an amazing showing for an early year event with 19 players entering the Pot-Limit Omaha event. All eyes were on Godly as she moved through the field and into the money, however, it was Shade that started out in 18th place after the the first break, to move up 16 spots and battle for the bracelet with Mag Kirwin. Unfortunately, he fell 1-spot short, and finished 2nd while Mag Kirwin forced another bracelet to be shipped to Missouri.
While Malarkey shot to the top with the fast break bonus and holding the chip-lead going to the final table, Godly managed to keep her Gundam Point Lead secure for another week, finishing in a very respectful 3rd place. SouthKing came in late, but had a good showing, placing 4th. And the ever consistent TimTheGreat and Scott-Rigged managed to take 5th place and the bubble, respectively.
The 2026 year started out with a good 15 player showing at the World Series of Gundam’s first event: No-Limit Hold’em. Jean jumped out front fast earning the fast-break bonus, while Neumann took some brutal bad beats and was left with a VERY short stack early in the tourney. Neumann worked his way out of a hole, but couldn’t collect the ChipNChair bonus as Scott-the-short-stack-master, went from 2nd to last to 2nd place… battling Godly in a short heads-up match.
With 2026 new rules, Godly collected the bounty on Godel, and really was never at risk of getting knocked out, due to a combination of great play and some timely coolers against big stack opponents.
Godel managed 3rd place by just being the nit he is and Linux nabbed 4th place with solid play and a little bad luck at the end. This year looks to be a good year for the WSOG.
It was a battle of short-stacks, as the Gundam point leaders all took early hits to their stack, leaving them in survival mode for a good part of the tournament. Meanwhile, DeckHole, jumped out with a point lead and Godel was down to 50bb fairly quickly. With TimTheGreat building his stack to get a jump on the other point leaders, TLS33 loomed in the background. It was duck-and-cover with occasional sniper attacks from TimTheGreat, Mag Kirwin and ScottChamp who jockeyed for position as they were looking to take the 25WSOG Championship crown. Seemingly, Godel was down-for-the-count.
However, surviving like a roach was K. Godel. Nursing a short-stack for almost the entire tournament, he refused to get snuffed. Though it took a 2-out spike on the river to keep him alive at one point. Eventually, TimTheGreat seemed to have things in control, until K. Godel managed to collect some chips with a good run, while TimTheGreat hit a rough patch at the end, eventually taking 3rd.
TLS3 eventually snuffed out Godel for the victory and the bounty, but not before Godel got the Chip & Chair bonus and enough points to be crowned the 2025 Gundam Champion.