Before we celebrate our two champions, we want to say this clearly to every athlete who stepped onto the Quad™ at Évry: you made this the best World Championship we have ever staged. Whatever colours you wore, you raised the level of the whole sport. Thank you.
Open Division World Champions: Rooftop Kings 🇲🇦 · Women's Division World Champions: Volt 🇫🇷
Open Division: Rooftop Kings make history for a continent 🇲🇦
Almost no one saw it coming. Rooftop Kings arrived at WCT7 with something to prove: at WCT6, they had gone out in the group stage without winning a single match. This year, they navigated one of the toughest groups in the tournament featuring reigning champions Hollywood Freerunners, home favourites Fakaw Paris, Fata Morgana, Quality Movement and Nimbus and came through on a head-to-head tiebreaker over Fakaw Paris.
From there they kept climbing, defeating UGEN in the semi-finals and then facing the defending champions in the final.
Rooftop Kings 1–0 Hollywood Freerunners
Morocco. Africa. World Champions. For the first time, a team from outside the UK, France or the USA has lifted the trophy. The UK won WCT1, 2 and 3, France took WCT4, the USA claimed WCT5 and WCT6. Now Rooftop Kings, the first African team in WCT history, open the door for an entire continent.
Rewatch the Open Division
Women's Division: Volt shock the field 🇫🇷
WCT7 was the first World Championship to give the women's division its own dedicated session, start to finish, focused entirely on women's Chase Tag®. With 1,350 people in attendance and the athletes finally getting the moment they deserve on the trophy stage.
If you only followed the favourites, you missed the story. Anarchy were expected to win. Kunoichi were expected to reach the final. Neither happened. Instead, Volt, the WCT6 French Champions who hadn't even advanced from the group stage at the previous Worlds, dominated the bracket from the opening buzzer and met Anarchy in the final.
Volt 1–0 Anarchy
The underdogs took it, and France lifts the women's world title once more. At the heart of the run was Maïlys Blasco, who joined Volt before Worlds and made history of her own: the first woman ever to win two World Championships. Her first with Nano at WCT6, her second with Volt at WCT7, back-to-back titles with two different teams. In our sport, only Amos Rendao has matched the double in the open division, and only Greg Ball has ever won three.
Rewatch the Women's Division
Finally, a special thank you to Gorilla Glue, the main sponsor of WCT7 for helping us hold it all together and make this record-breaking event possible.
