If you only followed the favourites, you missed the story. Anarchy was supposed to win. Kunoichi was supposed to make the final. Neither happened.
Instead, Team Volt from France lifted the trophy, and Maïlys Blasco became the first woman in Chase Tag® history to win two World Championships.
Rewatch the Event
Relive the full women’s division session here:
A Session of Their Own
Before we get to results, WCT7 was the first World Championship to give the women’s division its own dedicated session. A full session, start to finish, focused entirely on women’s Chase Tag®.
1,350 people in attendance, numbers comparable to Group B of the open division. The trophy ceremony wasn’t rushed as it’d been in the past. The athletes got their moment and while there’s still work to be done, this was a significant step forward for how the sport treats its women’s division.
The Teams
Six teams competed, split into two groups of three:
Group A: Valkyrie, Volt, Anarchy
Group B: Fakaw Women, Kunoichi, Rooftop Queens
Round robin within each group, top two advance to semi-finals, then a third-place match and the final. Ten matches total.
The Favourites
Going into the tournament, the conversation centred on two teams.
Anarchy, the WCT7 US Champions, were the clear favourites. They have some of the best women players in the sport, and most observers expected them to cruise through the bracket.
Kunoichi had made the final of every event they’d ever entered. WCT6 US Nationals, they won. WCT6 Pan-Americans, they reached the final and lost. WCT6 Worlds, they reached the final and lost.
Volt was not in that conversation. They were the WCT6 French Champions but hadn’t performed well at WCT6 Worlds, failing to advance from the group stage.
Then the matches started.
Volt Takes Everything
Whatever happened between WCT6 and WCT7, Volt figured it out.
They came into the tournament with a new weapon: Maïlys Blasco, former captain of Nano, the only team to have ever won the Women’s World Championship. Maïlys transferred to Volt before Worlds, and the addition changed everything.
Volt dominated the group stage. They moved through the bracket with a confidence that surprised everyone watching. And in the final, they faced Anarchy, the team everyone expected to be holding the trophy.
Volt 1-0 Anarchy.
The underdogs took it. France wins the Women’s World Championship again after Nano did it at WCT6.
Maïlys Blasco Makes History
Maïlys Blasco is the first ever woman earning double-World Championship.
Her first came with Nano at WCT6. Her second came with Volt at WCT7. Back-to-back titles with two different teams.
In the open division, only one player has achieved the same feat: Amos Rendao. And only one player in Chase Tag® history has three World Championship titles: Greg Ball, who won WCT1, 2, and 3 with Marrero Gang.
Maïlys will have a chance to tie that record next year. For now, she stands alone in the women’s division.
Kunoichi’s Streak Ends
For the first time in their history, Kunoichi didn’t make the final.
It’s not that they played poorly. The level of competition at WCT7 was simply higher than anything that came before. Kunoichi still finished third, beating Rooftop Queens 3-1 in the third-place match. But for a team that had reached the final of every event they’d ever entered, third place marks the end of a streak. The gap is closing. Kunoichi will need to evolve to stay at the top.
Rooftop Queens Arrive
One of the quieter success stories of the tournament: Rooftop Queens.
This was their first World Championship. They’re a young team from the Netherlands, trained and managed by Redouan Yagoub, the same person who built Rooftop Kings in the open division.
Reaching the semi-finals in your first Worlds is no small thing. Rooftop Queens have announced themselves. With Redouan’s track record of developing talent, expect them to be in the title conversation soon.
And yes, the parallels are hard to ignore. Rooftop Kings won the open division. Rooftop Queens reached the semi-finals of the women’s division. Both trained under the same coach. Whatever Redouan is doing, it’s working.
The Absences
One team was notably missing: Nano.
The standing World Champions couldn’t assemble a roster to compete at WCT7. Their former captain, Maïlys Blasco, was the only player from that championship-winning squad on the Quad™ this year, now wearing Volt’s colours.
It’s a reminder of how fragile team continuity can be in a sport with no salaries and enormous time commitments. Champions one year, absent the next. Nano’s absence opened the door, and Volt walked through it.
