Southern Arc Finals · 16–19 October 2026
Australia's circuit, lit for the final weekend.
SkilkyGlobal.com is the 2026 national desk for esports tournaments, from Docklands LAN floors to campus qualifiers. Sixteen titles. Eight cities. One table that actually means something in October.
Now on the desk
Six majors. One October finish.
Harbour, Glass, Westline, Reef, Capital, then Southern Arc. The splits are done. Melbourne keeps the trophy.
16 Oct
Southern Arc Finals
Best of five on the main stage. Map veto locks ninety minutes before walkout. Harbour Volt arrive as split leaders.
Closed
Westline Major
MR12, three maps in groups, five in the final. Ironbark took the west and carried those circuit points east.
Closed
Glass Invitational
Fearless draft across a harbour weekend. Reef Theory drafted like the patch notes were a personal letter.
Roster
Ancient desk
Two regional ladders fold into one Capital Finals bracket. Pauses follow the written circuit sheet, not the crowd.
Roster
Westline rotation
Hardpoint opens, Search decides nerves, Control closes the series. Stations are wiped between maps.
Roster
Capital Draft
Club-neutral kits, identical controllers, and a weekend league that fed the October knockout.
Disciplines
Titles that still fill a room.
Shooters, MOBAs, football, cars, battle royale, and the fighting games that turn a side stage into the loudest corner of the building.
Equipment
What survives a LAN weekend.
SkilkyGlobal publishes the bench spec used on every supplied station in 2026: headsets, mice, boards, panels, and the chairs that do not drift mid-round.
Read the bench specTriple panels, bias light, and a window that pretends the match is not at 11pm.
Setups
Stations, not shrines.
The circuit cares how a setup behaves at minute forty: cable path, monitor height, mic clear of the spacebar, and a second keyboard waiting if a switch dies.
01
Pro triple
Main panel centred, reference panels dimmed, audio only from the headset.
02
Broadcast desk
Analyst monitors face the truck, never the talent eyeline.
03
Travel crate
One labelled case for mouse, board, and in-ears. Nothing else on the bench.
Entering finals
The table before Southern Arc.
| Rank | Squad | City | Best split | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Harbour Volt | Melbourne | Valorant | 1840 |
| 02 | Reef Theory | Brisbane | League of Legends | 1765 |
| 03 | Ironbark | Sydney | Counter-Strike 2 | 1710 |
| 04 | Nullarbor | Perth | Call of Duty | 1660 |
| 05 | Tidebreak | Adelaide | EA Sports FC | 1595 |
The map
Where the 2026 circuit lands.
Melbourne
Docklands finals hall and the February Harbour Split.
Sydney
Glass Invitational, fearless draft, harbour night matches.
Brisbane
Reef Night for Apex, Fortnite, and PUBG.
Perth
Westline Major for Call of Duty and Siege.
Adelaide
August open qualifier feeding October.
Canberra
Capital Draft for FC and the fighting-game pit.
Hobart
Campus weekend, student stations, short brackets.
Darwin
Community LAN in May, points that still count.
Broadcast
The truck stays on the waterfront.
Southern Arc is called from a Docklands control room: observer, replay, audio, and a graphics op who treats a round win like a headline, not a sticker.
Talent desks use the same panel height as the players. If a camera can see a phone, the phone is already in a pouch.
How the desk is builtFeeds stay abstract until the director punches the walkout.