Trackmania debuts at EWC 2026. It was added this year as part of the updated game lineup, alongside Fortnite, while StarCraft II and Rennsport were removed. August 17-21, thirty-two players, five hundred thousand dollars. If you have never heard of Trackmania or competitive racing games as an esport, now is a good time to get familiar.
What is Trackmania?
Trackmania is a race against time. There is no opponent to block or to collide with. You race a track and your goal is to get the quickest time you can. Tracks are created by the community and the official designers and range from simple speed runs to insanely technical routes filled with jumps, wall rides and tight gaps that need to be taken perfectly at high speed.
What makes Trackmania competitive at the top level is that there is room for perfection. Two players could finish the same track in under a minute, split by a fraction of a second. Finding that fraction is about knowing every corner of the track, executing every movement perfectly and sometimes finding lines and shortcuts other players haven’t discovered. At the top end the driving looks physically impossible. Players will fly off of seemingly random parts of the track at full speed and land perfectly on the intended surface. They have practiced that specific moment hundreds of times.
The Players and How They Qualify
Bren, GranaDy, Massa, Carl Jr., and Nayko are among the confirmed names. These are players who have been competing in the Trackmania competitive circuit mostly in Europe where the game has it’s strongest following for years. The Elite Cup rankings offer direct qualification places to the best performers on the competitive calendar. This is a truly international event, with online qualifiers from Europe, North America, Oceania, South America, MENA and Asia. The game is especially popular in European markets.
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Trackmania at EWC 2026
- Event Dates: August 17–21, 2026
- Number of Players: 32
- Prize Pool: $500,000 USD
Trackmania Players at EWC 2026
- Brendan “Bren” Seve
- Carl-Antoni “Carl Jr.” Cloutier
- Filip “eLconn21” Šprungl
- Robert “Epos” McKay
- Nico “GranaDy” Gyarmati
- Patrick “Mudda” Radisich
- Thomas “Pac” Cole
- Yohan “Wosile” Moren
- Alexandre “Binkss” Touche
- Dennis “Massa” Lotze
- Maxence “Nayko” Cloud
- TBA (Elite Cup Rankings)
- TBA (Elite Cup Rankings)
- TBA (Elite Cup Rankings)
- TBA (Elite Cup Rankings)
- TBA (Elite Cup Rankings)
- TBA (Online Qualifier Europe)
- TBA (Online Qualifier Europe)
- TBA (Online Qualifier Europe)
- TBA (Online Qualifier Europe)
- TBA (Online Qualifier Europe)
- TBA (Online Qualifier Europe)
- TBA (Online Qualifier North America)
- TBA (Online Qualifier North America)
- TBA (Online Qualifier North America)
- TBA (Online Qualifier Oceania)
- TBA (Online Qualifier Oceania)
- TBA (Online Qualifier Oceania)
- TBA (Online Qualifier South America)
- TBA (Online Qualifier South America)
- TBA (Online Qualifier Middle East & North Africa)
- TBA (Online Qualifier Asia)
In EWC 2026, Trackmania is worth watching
Trackmania doesn’t get a lot of attention outside its core community, but the competition at the top level is really impressive to watch. When you see a player find a new line on a track live during a race or see someone recover from a near crash to still post the fastest time, those moments translate well to spectators who know nothing about the history or community of the game.
It’s good for Trackmania to have EWC as a platform, and good for esports diversity. Everything doesn’t have to be a shooter or a MOBA. Racing games as esports have real merit and Trackmania is the best example of what that looks like at a high competitive level.
Five days, August 17 to 21. Five hundred thousand dollars. If you want to add something different to your EWC 2026 viewing schedule, Trackmania is a very interesting option.
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