Updated 26 October 2026: the page is now a dated record of the 25 November 2025 challenge, the replies from T1 and Riot, and the current status: no date, venue or result has been published and xAI’s newest model is Grok 4.7, not Grok 5. The speculation about how Grok 5 would play, the community-excitement sections and the GamerMarkt promotion were removed.
Elon Musk challenged T1 to a League of Legends match against Grok 5 on 25 November 2025. T1 accepted the same day and Riot Games’ president Marc Merrill replied “let’s discuss”. On 26 October 2026 no date, venue, format or result has been published for the match, and xAI has not released Grok 5: its news page lists Grok 4.7, released on 21 September 2026, as the newest model.
What was announced on 25 November 2025
Dexerto reported on 25 November 2025 that Musk had written on X: “Let’s see if Grok 5 can beat the best human team League Of Legends in 2026 with these important constraints.” The constraints named in the report are a camera that sees the monitor with no more than 20/20 vision shows a person, and a reaction time and click rate capped at human levels. Dexerto quotes T1’s reply, a GIF of the player Faker with the text “We are ready” and the question “Are you?”, and the reply of Marc Merrill, co-founder and president of Riot Games: “let’s discuss”.
Status of each claim on 26 October 2026
| Claim | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Musk proposed Grok 5 against the best human LoL team in 2026 | Dexerto, 25 November 2025, quoting Musk’s post | Reported; the post is on X |
| Grok 5 plays through a camera and with human reaction and click limits | Same report | Proposed conditions; no rulebook published |
| T1 accepted | Same report, T1’s reply on X | Reported |
| Riot agreed to host the match | Merrill wrote “let’s discuss” | Not confirmed; no Riot announcement |
| A date, venue or format exists | None found in Riot, T1 or xAI channels read | Not announced |
| Grok 5 has been released | xAI news page, 26 October 2026 | Not released; newest model is Grok 4.7 (21 September 2026) |
| A match result | None | No match has been announced as played |
What xAI has released since the challenge
The xAI news page lists Grok 4.6 on 14 August 2026 and Grok 4.7 on 21 September 2026 (“SpaceXSI’s most powerful model for coding and knowledge work”), plus products such as Grok Bot and Grok Voice 3.0 (14 October 2026). It lists no Grok 5 release. The challenge was set for 2026, and the year has about two months left.
Frequently asked questions
Did Grok 5 play T1 in League of Legends?
No match has been announced as played. Musk proposed it on 25 November 2025 for 2026, T1 accepted, and Riot’s Marc Merrill replied “let’s discuss”. No date or venue has been published.
What were the rules of the Grok 5 vs T1 match?
Musk’s post proposed that Grok 5 look at the monitor through a camera with no more than 20/20 vision shows, with reaction time and click rate capped at human levels. A full rulebook has not been published.
Has Grok 5 been released?
Not according to xAI’s news page on 26 October 2026. The newest model it lists is Grok 4.7, released on 21 September 2026.
Did T1 accept the Grok 5 challenge?
Yes. According to Dexerto, T1 replied to Musk’s post with a Faker GIF, the words “We are ready” and the question “Are you?”.
Sources
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