The Venomous Abyss Race to World First: Livestreams, Coverage, and News

The Venomous Abyss Race to World First begins today, with many returning competitors and a few new faces streaming their progress to defeat Ula'tek on Mythic difficulty and become the next World Champions of Midnight!

While several well established guilds from around the world will be vying for world rankings, Wowhead is once again partnered with Team Liquid to provide raid graphics and Dressing Room character models for participants and viewers alike! We're still rooting for everyone though, and are excited to track all of the community achievements during this epic race, so we've put together a list of the top guild and community hosted events, coverage, casters, charity fundraisers, and more.

Wowhead Coverage

As usual, we will be providing our own coverage of the race, with frequent articles highlighting first kills, group compositions, hotfixes, strategies, and any surprises along the way. As a part of our coverage, we'll also be consolidating information from across the web, including all the different streaming viewpoints, as well as compositional information from Raider.IO and WarcraftLogs, so be sure to check our recaps each day to see how the race progresses!

All of our Race to World First Coverage will be linked here, including each world first kill, major tuning pass, unexpected hotfixes, daily recaps, and more!

RWF Livestreams and Coverage

Midnight Season 2

Unlike Season 1, the second season of Midnight is back to a consolidated eight boss raid with just one Hall of Fame. While The Tidebound Grotto Lair also features a Mythic difficulty raid boss, it does not have a Hall of Fame achievement and does not formally fall within the Race to World First... though it is likely that the majority of guilds will clear it multiple times for extra loot.

Venomous Abyss bosses

For more information on the raid, check out our detailed guides:

North American Guilds

Team Liquid

Continuing an unbroken streak of world firsts in The War Within and Midnight, Team Liquid continues to provide an expansive event, with the majority of the guild and eight community casters livestreaming together to provide laughs, commentary, Q&A sessions, player highlights, and more!

Team Liquid on Twitch

"The gang's all here. August 18th @ 10 AM PDT 🐍🧪" — @LiquidGuild, Aug 11, 2026

Instant Dollars

Following up on a fifth place finish in Midnight Season 1, Instant Dollars is pushing to keep their long-running streak alive as one of the few remaining North American top 10 finishers.

Honestly

Reclaiming their spot at the top with a world 9th finish in Midnight Season 1, the world's foremost Oceanic guild continues to make the most of their relatively light 20 hour raid schedule. While not putting on any consolidated event, several raiders will be streaming their individual PoV from down under, as they try to hold position within the top 10.

European Guilds

Echo

Continuing to finish second place throughout The War Within and Midnight Season 1, the European frontrunners still put on a first class show, with twelve raiders and seven casters livestreaming together in support of the Games for Love non-profit organization.

Echo Esports on Twitch

"🐉 Fire vs Venom 🐍 We will find out which comes out on top 🔥 Time to break this curse 👊" — @EchoGuild, Aug 10, 2026

Method

Once again holding steady in third place, Method popularized livestreaming the Race to World First and shows no signs of ending more than two decades of raiding excellence. They'll have 12 community casters providing non-stop commentary in what promises to be another big show.

Method Team Channel on Twitch