A whopping four matches are coming up this weekend! The first match, IN Lunatic Scoring, begins in a little under 24 hours so we hope to see you there! Check the schedule on our website to view match times in your local timezone: touhouworldcup.com/schedule #touhou #TouhouWorldCup #TWC2026

In a turn of events, netconan makes a triumphant comeback during the UFO Lunatic Scoring match by shooting from 3rd to 1st place on their final credit with a 1-miss Reimu-B run! Artwork by @hrm_wata on Twitter. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

UM Lunatic Scoring makes its long-awaited return! Our players were eager to show off recent developments in strategies using the Lily White card, and EBM wins the match after shattering the previous world record! Artwork by @ghostymega.bsky.social. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

A classic match between two longtime PCB Extra Scoring players who have faced each other year after year! After a long struggle against Chen, INA takes the win while almost besting the world record! Artwork by @ina__con on Twitter and @pittibuntyou.bsky.social. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

After several LNN paces tragically lost to Remilia, kkgk successfully runs it back and takes the win with a Marisa-A LNN in EoSD Lunatic Survival! HIMAJIN and Basty also performed admirably, and tie for 2nd place! Artwork by @sachisu.bsky.social. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

After pulling off a series of consistently strong runs that hit a minimum of 120 million, rmy takes the win in GFW Lunatic Scoring! Artwork by @koralreef.bsky.social. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

We got a taste of how strict TD Lunatic Scoring can be, as a single mistake can be ruinous to your route! Although Leelia got agonisingly close on their final run, clanc's winning score stood strong! Artwork by @peconeko1 on Twitter and @tindalos01.bsky.social. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

In a clash of scoring titans, gobou overtakes SOC's strong initial showing and emerges victorious in EoSD Lunatic Scoring! Artwork by @harapyon9711.bsky.social. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

It was a great day for Marisa-C fans in the SA Lunatic Survival match, with all three players focused entirely on her! ChickenButtXD secured their placement on the very first try, with an unbeatable LNN+Bonus run! Artwork by @semi_sukuna and @seisumochi on Twitter. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

In an exciting debut for FW Lunatic Scoring on TWC, Kero attains victory by surpassing their personal best and setting a new world record for Marisa R2! Despite FW being a new game, standards are already incredibly high! Artwork by @210marisa.bsky.social. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

LoLK Lunatic Scoring concludes with Crow as the winner! Even after taking the lead, they kept pushing and improved their TWC Score on a subsequent run that reached 3 billion with Sanae! Artwork by @LoLK_m on Twitter and @cirnolover9.bsky.social respectively. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

In a historic match, Numata emerges from GFW Lunatic Survival not just the winner, but also the first person to ever achieve a Route B1 LNN with ALL gold medals! Artwork by @ThrownAloeCrown on Twitter. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

Demonstrating extremely high level grazing strategies, Yusuke has proven over the years that few can rival them in PCB Lunatic Scoring! However, Fox put on an impressive showing as a first time participant! Artwork by @matsumotooka.bsky.social. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

KDK snags the win in DDC Lunatic Scoring! As a showcase of their astounding consistency, they achieved a 1.9 billion personal best a day before the match and was only one spell capture away from achieving it again here! Artwork by @Its_a_Starman on Twitter. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

The HSiFS Lunatic Scoring sees oitan setting the pace with a 4.457 billion Marisa-Summer score on their first completed run! Although YDH was unable to overtake them in TWC Score, they did end up setting a new Marisa-Spring world record in the process! Artwork by @ymg8_3 on Twitter.

Coming through with a Sanae LNN on the final run in the TD Lunatic Survival match, RYOKUMIN manages to keep the yearly streak of TD LNNs alive while securing their victory! Artwork by @sigureni-reniko.bsky.social and @punch155.bsky.social respectively. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

zxxsmart takes the MoF Lunatic Scoring match with an extremely strong 2.19 billion Marisa-C run! They managed an incredible no-miss performance, which is vital in this category where misses are extremely costly. Artwork by Lwiizi. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

In SA Lunatic Scoring, the game seemed determined to thwart our competitors at every turn. However, gygy managed a breakthrough in the latter half of the match, earning them the victory! Artwork by @mennine_52149 on Twitter. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

After seeing a surge of interest within the past year, WBaWC Extra Scoring is being pushed to its limits! This match saw a world record for Marisa-E AND Marisa-W set live by Borealis! Artwork by @turbomaya9000.bsky.social. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

HSiFS Lunatic Survival is a category known for its brutal late game difficulty. Our competitors performed masterfully against the hardest variants of Okina's final spell, resulting in a 1-miss win for mineri using Marisa-Spring! Artwork by @hanei8801.bsky.social and @redlerred7.bsky.social.

Despite sakiika's flawless performance with a Ghost Team 6B LNNFS, starfire was able to take the win during the IN Lunatic Survival match by achieving a 1-miss using the infamously difficult Solo Sakuya shot type! Artwork by @HIMAJIN_TOUHOU on Twitter. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

A colourful variety of shot types were showcased in this year's EoSD Extra Scoring match! After a quick back-and-forth struggle, Madoka pulled ahead of the competition with a 678 million Reimu-B run! Artwork by @stako.bsky.social. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

A tie has emerged as Team Mirage and Team Truth continue a close fight for the lead! Will Team Fossil manage to stage a dramatic comeback?

In this year's battle against lines, Tipsy came out on top to chew through those lasers and bullets with the power of otters! Artwork by @ab-ten-4.bsky.social. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

MarisaB's bomb may have let our players farm a ludicrous number of lives, but Raiko was hellbent to prevent them from clearing with all of them! Artwork by @ludicrousfps.bsky.social. #touhou #TWC2026 #TouhouWorldCup

A testament to just how gruelling SA Extra Scoring can be, Oriens was the only player to complete a run without dying. That's certainly not for a lack of trying from everyone, who shot for the stars and just barely fell short! Artwork by @sssyake35 on Twitter.

UFO Extra Scoring has a unique stage section that demands heaps of luck and precision to maximize graze, but our players persevered and managed to pull off amazingly high scores for how little time they had! Artwork by @sakurasanne.bsky.social. #touhou #TouhouWorldCup #TWC2026

In the debut of GFW Extra Scoring on TWC, our players helped Cirno prove her strength to one of the strongest humans in Gensokyo, spreading as much ice as possible against her (flashlight) lasers! Artwork by @silentsiren17.bsky.social. #touhou #TouhouWorldCup #TWC2026

Three weeks in, and Team Mirage takes a small lead! Will Team Fossil manage a comeback soon, and will the duel between reality and illusion heat up further?

Collecting as much score out of their battles across a Gensokyo in full bloom, our players engaged in thrilling spell wars against the CPU in PoFV Lunatic Scoring! Artwork by @creepingbarrett.bsky.social. #touhou #TouhouWorldCup #TWC2026