Xipto Esports Win EPL SEA Season 18

Published October 10, 2026

Xipto Esports are the champions of EPL World Series: Southeast Asia Season 18 after defeating InterActive Philippines 3-0 in the Dota 2 grand final. The result was decisive rather than a narrow title finish: Xipto won all three games of the final and took the tournament championship, while InterActive Philippines ended the event in second place. The victorious Xipto lineup included Nuengnara “23savage” Teeramahanon and Chan “Oli” Chon Kien. The final was the concluding match of the event and established the order at the top of the tournament standings.

The grand-final sweep was the central competitive outcome of an event played online from September 25 through October 8. EPL World Series: Southeast Asia Season 18 had a total prize pool of 10 thousand dollars, making the final important both as the championship series and as the match that settled the leading prize positions. Xipto Esports received five thousand dollars for first place, while InterActive Philippines received three thousand dollars after finishing second. Those confirmed payouts give the result a direct tournament impact: Xipto did not simply win the final series, but finished above every other team in the event. InterActive Philippines, despite reaching the deciding match, left the tournament as the runner-up.

A clean finish to the grand final

Xipto Esports faced InterActive Philippines in a best-of-five grand final on October 8 and closed it in the minimum three maps. Independent match records agree on the 3-0 series result. A best-of-five can run to four or five games, but neither was needed here: Xipto took each of the first three and ended the event as champion. The final was a rematch rather than the teams’ first meeting of the week. Xipto had also beaten InterActive Philippines 2-1 on October 7, a much closer series. That distinction matters because the earlier playoff result did not award the title; the grand-final sweep did. The available records establish the sequence and scores, but do not justify claims about a particular draft, player mistake or turning point that was not independently documented.

The short sequence between the finalists gives the result its immediate context. On October 7, InterActive Philippines took one map from Xipto in a 2-1 loss. On October 8, the runner-up could not win a map in the title series. The list below keeps those two verified series separate and identifies the format of the final. It does not substitute individual kill totals for a match report, because publicly indexed trackers disagreed on some of those map statistics. The decisive fact is the series score, which multiple independent records and the tournament report confirm. The table then records the top-two tournament finishes and prize payouts, keeping the competitive outcome and award amounts clear without implying how the prize money was divided among individual players.

Final scoreline and prize finish

The result is a concrete early achievement for a Xipto lineup featuring 23savage, inYourdreaM, Fbz, Q and Oli. The five players did not need a deciding fifth map against InterActive Philippines to secure the title, and the final score was confirmed by multiple independent match trackers. Xipto’s five-thousand-dollar first-place payout came from the event’s ten-thousand-dollar pool; the runner-up received three thousand dollars. Those amounts describe the tournament award, not individual player earnings. The event ran online from September 25 to October 8, so the October 8 series was the endpoint of this edition rather than the beginning of a further stage. The table below keeps the final placing and prize figures together for readers checking the competitive and financial outcome.

• October 7: Xipto Esports beat InterActive Philippines 2-1 in an earlier playoff series.
• October 8: Xipto won the best-of-five grand final 3-0.
• The final ended after three games; no fourth or fifth game was required.

Team	Confirmed EPL World Series: Southeast Asia Season 18 finish
Xipto Esports	First place and five thousand dollars
InterActive Philippines	Second place and three thousand dollars

Xipto Esports finished EPL World Series: Southeast Asia Season 18 as champion with a 3-0 grand-final win over InterActive Philippines. The October 7 meeting had been closer at 2-1, but the title series required only three maps. The confirmed result is the championship and its five-thousand-dollar first-place award; it does not by itself predict how the lineup will fare in its next event.