Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Mid-Season Cup
Official Logo of the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Southeast Asia Cup 2023
Tournament information
SportMobile Legends: Bang Bang
LocationWorldwide (2024–present)
Regional SEA (2017–2023)
Established2017 (2017)
Number of
tournaments
6
AdministratorMoonton
Tournament
format(s)
Host(s)
List
  • Jakarta (2017, 2018)
  • Manila (2019)
  • Canceled (2020)
  • Online Tournament (2021)
  • Kuala Lumpur (2022)
  • Phnom Penh (2023)
Participants
  • 8 teams (2017)
  • 10 teams (2018)
  • 12 teams (2019–present)
Websitemcl.mobilelegends.com
Current champion
Indonesia ONIC Esports (2nd title)
Most recent tournament
MSC 2023

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Mid Season Cup, (previously known as Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Southeast Asia Cup) referred to as MSC, is an annual international tournament for professional esport teams for the MOBA game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang hosted by Moonton in the middle of years, since 2017.

On 1 January 2024, Moonton announced the rebranding of the formerly SEA-based tournament, "Southeast Asia Cup" to the "Mid-Season Cup" as the first international tournament prior to the second leg of MLBB professional leagues.[1] The Mid-Season Cup is the newly-internationalized tournament with teams from varying regions participating.

Currently, Indonesia's ONIC Esports won the most-recent edition of the tournament in 2023, defeating Blacklist International, 4–2.[2]

History

Southeast Asia Cup (2017–2023)

MSC 2017

The first season of MSC started on September 1, 2017 and was held in Jakarta, Indonesia,[3] at Mall Taman Anggrek venue.[4] It is a 3-day event with 8 teams from 5 countries: Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore, and Indonesia, and a total prize pool of $100,000.[5] IDONOTSLEEP (IDNS), an esports team based in Thailand were crowned as the champion.[6] MSC 2017 used a qualification system in determining the finalists.[7][8]

MSC 2018

The second year of MSC took off on July 27–29, 2018 and was held again at Jakarta, Indonesia with a similar prize pool of $100,000. MSC 2018 did not use a qualification system but started inviting teams from countries with established Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional Leagues (MPL). 10 teams were invited from 7 countries: Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.[9] IDNS, a competing team, reported technical issues during the tournament where the game casts skills without player input. Moonton put out a notice for a rematch but took it down and no rematch occurred.[10] Regardless of the technical difficulties, Aether Main – a Philippines based team – won the championship.[11]

MSC 2019

The third year of MSC 2019 was held at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in the Philippines from June 19–23, 2019. There were a total of 12 teams from 9 countries in Southeast Asia. The nine countries that took part were Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam with a total prize pool of US$120,000. [12] Onic Esports - a team based in Indonesia were crowned as champions after defeating fellow Indonesian based team Louvre Esports in the Grand Finals. This marked the 1st MSC Champions title for the Indonesia.

MSC 2020

On 11 May 2020, Moonton announced that the 2020 Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Southeast Asia Cup was officially canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.[13][14] Moonton explained that due to international travel limitations, and local government regulations about COVID-19, the events were impossible to be held.[14] Hereby, Moonton planned to conduct alternative esports events in each participating MSC country respectively.[14]

MSC 2021

The 2021 Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Southeast Asia Cup, would be held virtually from June 7–9, 2021 for the Group Stages, and from June 11–13, 2021 for the Playoffs.[15] At the Grand Finals, two Philippines based teams, Blacklist International and Execration, reigned supreme and battled it out at for the title in the first best of 7 series ever in the history of Mobile Legends. The title went to Execration,[16] winning $150,000 and gave the Philippines its 2nd MSC Champions title.

MSC 2022

The 2022 Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Southeast Asia Cup was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from June 11 to 19, 2022. Twelve teams from nine countries participated in the championship with a total prize pool of $300,000. At the Grand Finals, RSG Philippines and RRQ Hoshi fought to win the entire championship. RSG Philippines swept RRQ Hoshi 4 to 0 and were deemed the Champions of the 2022 MSC (Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Southeast Asia Cup) and gave the Philippines its 3rd MSC Title, currently the most out of any country playing for MLBB.[17]

MSC 2023

The 2023 Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Southeast Asia Cup was held in Cambodia from June 10 to 18, 2023. Twelve teams from ten countries participated in the championship with a total prize pool of $300,000. At the grand finals, ONIC Esports of Indonesia won Blacklist International of the Philippines.[18]

Mid Season Cup (2024–present)

MSC 2024

The upcoming Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Mid-Season Cup will be the first of its editions after rebranding the tournament. During the rebranding announcement, it has been confirmed that MSC 2024 will be held outside of SEA (Southeast Asia), the first MSC tournament to be held outside of Southeast Asia.[1]

Format

Two teams from Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional Leagues (MPL) on different Southeast Asian countries are invited to MSC. For countries without MPL, local qualifiers are hosted. The tournaments start with a group stage where teams fight for the spot in the upper bracket through best of 3 round robin. Teams winning the best of 3 in the group stage get the spot for the upper bracket. The other two teams compete on play-ins where the winning team gets to the lower bracket and the losing team is eliminated. After the group stage is the tournament proper. Losing teams from the upper bracket are demoted to the lower bracket while losing teams from the lower bracket are eliminated. One finalist will come from each bracket and compete in the Grand Finals.[19] From 2017 to 2019, the Grand Finals are played in best of 5, but since the 2021 version, it is played in best of 7.

Viewership

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Mid-Season Cup is streamed live to Facebook Gaming and YouTube.

Year Peak Viewers Average Viewers Hours Watched Reference
Southeast Asia Cup
2017 53,837 20,102 353,451 [20]
2018 100,000+ N/A N/A [21]
2019 276,579 68,220 2,887,965 [22]
2020
Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021 2,284,012 514,618 29,461,866 [23]
2022 2,800,606 477,042 35,181,778 [24]
2023 TBA
Mid Season Cup
2024 TBD

Participating teams

MSC 2017

Five-Nations Finals
Team Seed
Malaysia Team Saiyan MSC 2017 Malaysia Winner
Malaysia MYA JR MSC 2017 Malaysia Runner-Up
Philippines Solid Gaming Alpha MSC 2017 Philippines Winner
Philippines Salty Salad MSC 2017 Philippines Runner-Up
Indonesia Saints Indo MSC 2017 Indonesia Winner
Indonesia Elite8 Esports MSC 2017 Indonesia Runner-Up
Thailand IDNS MSC 2017 Thailand Winner
Singapore Impunity MSC 2017 Singapore Winner

References:[25]

MSC 2018

Group A Group B
Team Seed Team Seed
Indonesia Aerowolf Roxy1 MPL-ID S1 Winner Philippines Bren Esports4 MPL-PH S1 Winner
Singapore Bigetron Esports2 MPL-MY/SG S1 Winner Indonesia EVOS Esports MPL-ID S1 Runner-Up
Malaysia AirAsia Saiyan3 MPL-MY/SG S1 Runner-Up Indonesia RRQ.O2 MPL-ID S1 3rd Place
Philippines Digital Devils Pro Gaming MPL-PH S1 Runner-Up Thailand IDNS Thailand Local Qualifiers
Myanmar Burmese Ghouls Myanmar Local Qualifiers Vietnam Fantasy Main Vietnam Local Qualifiers

1 = Formerly known as Team NXL

2 = Formerly known as IDNS SG

3 = Formerly known as Team Saiyan

4 = Played as Aether Main

References:[26]

MSC 2019

Group A Group B
Team Seed Team Seed
Malaysia Geek Fam MPL-MY/SG S3 Winner Philippines ArkAngel MPL-PH S3 Winner
Philippines Bren Esports MPL-PH S3 Runner-Up Singapore EVOS.SG MPL-MY/SG S3 Runner-Up
Thailand IDNS Thailand Local Qualifiers Vietnam Overclockers Vietnam Local Qualifiers
Group C Group D
Team Seed Team Seed
Myanmar Team Resolution MPL-MM S2 Winner Indonesia ONIC Esports MPL-ID S3 Winner
Indonesia Louvre Esports MPL-ID S3 Runner-Up Myanmar Burmese Ghouls MPL-MM S2 Runner-Up
Cambodia Diversity Helheim Cambodia Local Qualifiers Laos WAWA Gaming Laos Local Qualifiers

References:[27]

MSC 2021

Group A Group B
Team Seed Team Seed
Malaysia RSG Malaysia MPL-MY S7 Champion Indonesia EVOS Legends MPL-ID S7 Champion
Singapore RSG Singapore MPL-SG S1 Runner-Up Malaysia Todak MPL-MY S7 Runner-Up
Thailand IDONOTSLEEP Thailand Local Qualifiers Vietnam Cyber EXE Vietnam Local Qualifiers
Group C Group D
Team Seed Team Seed
Philippines Blacklist International MPL-PH S7 Champion Singapore EVOS SG MPL-SG S1 Champion
Indonesia Bigetron Alpha MPL-ID S7 Runner-Up Philippines Execration MPL-PH S7 Runner-Up
Cambodia Impunity KH Cambodia Local Qualifiers Laos Nightmare Esports Laos Local Qualifiers

References:[28]

MSC 2022

Group A Group B
Team Seed Team Seed
Malaysia TODAK MPL-MY S9 Champion Philippines RSG Philippines MPL-PH S9 Champion
Myanmar Falcon Esports Myanmar Qualifier Champion Cambodia See You Soon MPL-KH Spring 2022 Runner-Up
Indonesia ONIC Esports MPL-ID S9 Runner-Up Singapore RSG Singapore MPL-SG S3 Champion
Group C Group D
Team Seed Team Seed
Indonesia RRQ Hoshi MPL-ID S9 Champion Cambodia Impunity KH MPL-KH Spring 2022 Champion
Thailand IDONOTSLEEP Mekong1 Qualifier Champion Malaysia Orange Esports MPL-MY S9 Runner-Up
Philippines Omega Esports MPL-PH S9 Runner-Up Singapore EVOS SG MPL-SG S3 Runner-Up

1 = Laos, Thailand, Vietnam

Reference:[29]

MSC 2023

Group A Group B
Team Seed Team Seed
Philippines ECHO Philippines MPL-PH S11 Champion RSG Slate Singapore MPL-SG S5 Champion
Turkey Fire Flux Impunity MTC-Turkiye S1 Champion EVOS Legends MPL-ID S11 Runner-Up
Laos Team EVO Mekong Qualifier Myanmar Fenix Esports Myanmar Qualifier
Group C Group D
Team Seed Team Seed
Indonesia ONIC Esports MPL-ID S11 Champion Philippines Blacklist International MPL-PH S11 Runner-Up
Cambodia BURN x FLASH MPL-KH Spring Champion Malaysia TODAK MPL-MY S11 Champion
United States Outplay NACT Spring 2023 Runner-Up Egypt Team Occupy MPL-MENA Spring 2023 Champion

Reference:[30]

Results

Edition Year Hosts Grand Final Third place Fourth place No. of teams
Champions Score Runners-up
Southeast Asia Cup
1 2017  Indonesia Thailand
IDONOTSLEEP		 3–0 Philippines
Salty Salad		 Philippines
Solid Gaming Alpha		 Singapore
Impunity		 8
2 2018  Indonesia Philippines
Aether Main		 3–0 Philippines
Digital Devils Pro Gaming		 Indonesia
RRQ.O2		 Indonesia
Aerowolf Roxy		 10
3 2019  Philippines Indonesia
ONIC Esports		 3–0 Indonesia
Louvre Esports		 Philippines
ArkAngel		 Vietnam
OverClockers		 12
2020 Canceled because of COVID-19 pandemic
4 2021 None
[note 1]		 Philippines
Execration		 4–1
[note 2]		 Philippines
Blacklist International		 Indonesia
EVOS Legends		 Malaysia
RSG Malaysia		 12
5 2022  Malaysia Philippines
RSG Philippines		 4–0 Indonesia
RRQ Hoshi		 Philippines
Omega Esports		 Myanmar
Falcon Esports		 12
6 2023  Cambodia Indonesia
ONIC Esports		 4–2 Philippines
Blacklist International		 Philippines
ECHO Philippines		 Cambodia
BURN x FLASH		 12
Mid Season Cup
7 2024 TBD TBD TBD TBD
Notes
  1. ↑ Online tournament.
  2. ↑ Since 2021, Grand Final would be held in best-of-seven (BO7) series format.

Performances by teams

Teams reaching the Top Four
TeamChampionsRunners-upThird placeFourth placeTop
Four
Total
Indonesia ONIC Esports 2 (2019, 2023) 2
Thailand IDONOTSLEEP 1 (2017) 1
Philippines Bren Esports1 1 (2018) 1
Philippines Execration 1 (2021) 1
Philippines RSG Philippines 1 (2022) 1
Philippines Blacklist International 2 (2021, 2023) 2
Philippines Salty Salad 1 (2017) 1
Philippines Digital Devils Pro Gaming 1 (2018) 1
Indonesia Louvre Esports 1 (2019) 1
Indonesia RRQ Hoshi2 1 (2022) 1 (2018*) 2
Philippines Solid Gaming Alpha 1 (2017) 1
Philippines ArkAngel 1 (2019*) 1
Indonesia EVOS Legends 1 (2021) 1
Philippines Omega Esports 1 (2022) 1
Philippines ECHO Philippines 1 (2023) 1
Singapore Impunity 1 (2017) 1
Indonesia Aerowolf Roxy 1 (2018*) 1
Vietnam OverClockers 1 (2019) 1
Malaysia RSG Malaysia 1 (2021) 1
Myanmar Falcon Esports 1 (2022) 1
Cambodia BURN x FLASH 1 (2023*) 1
Notes
* Nation hosts.
1. ^ Includes result playing as Aether Main during 2018.
2. ^ Includes result playing as RRQ.O2 during 2018.

Performances by nations

Teams reaching the Top Four
TeamChampionsRunners-upThird placeFourth placeTop
Four
Total
 Philippines 3 (2018, 2021, 2022) 4 (2017, 2018, 2021, 2023) 4 (2017, 2019*, 2022, 2023) 11
 Indonesia 2 (2019, 2023) 2 (2019, 2022) 2 (2018*, 2021) 1 (2018*) 7
 Thailand 1 (2017) 1
 Singapore 1 (2017) 1
 Vietnam 1 (2019) 1
 Malaysia 1 (2021) 1
 Myanmar 1 (2022) 1
 Cambodia 1 (2023*) 1
Notes
* Hosts.

See also

References

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