Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Southeast Asia Cup

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Southeast Asia Cup (MSC), often called MLBB SEA Cup, is an annual esports tournament for the mobile MOBA game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang in Southeast Asia. The tournament consists of different teams from different countries in Southeast Asia such as Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore (Since 2017), Vietnam, and Myanmar (Since 2018), Cambodia, and Laos (Since 2019).

MLBB SEA Cup (MSC)
Tournament information
SportMobile Legends: Bang Bang
LocationRegional (SEA)
Established2017
Number of
tournaments
3
Administrator(s)Moonton
Tournament
format(s)
Venue(s)Varies
Participants
  • 8 teams (2017)
  • 10 teams (2018)
  • 12 teams (2019–present)
Websitemsc.mobilelegends.com
Current champion
ONIC Esports (1st title)

History

MSC 2017

The first season of "ML (Mobile Legends) Southeast Asia Cup" (MSC) started September 1, 2017 and held at Jakarta, Indonesia. It is a 3-day event with 8 finalists from 5 countries: Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, and Indonesia, and total prize pool of $100,000.[1] IDONOTSLEEP (IDNS), the esport team from Thailand became the champion in the grand finals.[2] MSC 2017 used a qualification system in determining the finalists.[3][4]

MSC 2018

The second year of MSC took off July 27–29, 2018 and held again at Jakarta, Indonesia with the same 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.[5] 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.[6]

MSC 2019
Main article: MSC 2019

The third year of MSC 2019 It was held at Smart Araneta Coliseum, Philippines from June 19-23, 2019. There are 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. [7] ONIC Esports, the team from Indonesia became the champion in the grand finals after defeating LOUVRE Esports who also team from Indonesia.

MSC 2020

On 11 May 2020, Moonton announced that MSC 2020 officially canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic situation.[8][9] Moonton explained that because of international travel limitation, and local government regulation about COVID-19 makes this events impossible to be held soon.[9] Hereby, Moonton planned to conduct alternative esports events in each participating MSC country respectively.[9]

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.[10]

Winners
Year Winner Prize Pool Date Venue
2017 IDNS[2] $100,000 September 1–3, 2017 Mall Taman Anggrek − Jakarta, Indonesia
2018 Aether Main[11] $100,000 July 27–29, 2018 Jakarta International Expo − Jakarta, Indonesia
2019 ONIC Esports[12] $120,000 June 21–23, 2019 Smart Araneta Coliseum − Manila, Philippines
2020
Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic

Viewership

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Southeast Asia Cup is streamed live to Facebook Gaming and YouTube.

Year Peak Viewers Average Viewers Hours Watched Reference
2017 53,837 20,102 353,451 [13]
2018 100,000+ N/A N/A [14]
2019 276,579 64,552 2,802,625 [15]
2020
Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic

Participating Teams

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

References:[16]

MSC 2018
Group A Group B
Team Seed Team Seed
Aerowolf Roxy1 MPL-ID S1 Winner Bren Esports4 MPL-PH S1 Winner
Bigetron Esports2 MPL-MY/SG S1 Winner EVOS Esports MPL-ID S1 Runner-Up
AirAsia Saiyan3 MPL-MY/SG S1 Runner-Up RRQ.O2 MPL-ID S1 3rd Place
Digital Devils Pro Gaming MPL-PH S1 Runner-Up IDNS Thailand Local Qualifiers
Burmese Ghouls Myanmar Local Qualifiers 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:[17]

MSC 2019
Group A Group B
Team Seed Team Seed
Geek Fam MPL-MY/SG S3 Winner ArkAngel MPL-PH S3 Winner
Bren Esports MPL-PH S3 Runner-Up EVOS.SG MPL-MY/SG S3 Runner-Up
IDNS Thailand Local Qualifiers Overclockers Vietnam Local Qualifiers
Group C Group D
Team Seed Team Seed
Team Resolution MPL-MM S2 Winner ONIC Esports MPL-ID S3 Winner
Louvre Esports MPL-ID S3 Runner-Up Burmese Ghouls MPL-MM S2 Runner-Up
Diversity Helheim Cambodia Local Qualifiers WAWA Gaming Laos Local Qualifiers

References:[18]

Results

Grand Finals

Upper Brackets Finals
Edition Year Venue Hosts Winner Score
(BO5)		 Runner-Up
1
2017
 Indonesia IDNS
3–0
 Salty Salad
2
2018
 Indonesia Bren Esports
3–0
 Digital Devils Pro Gaming
3
2019
 Philippines ONIC Esports
3–0
 Louvre Esports
4
2020
 Philippines
Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic

Lower Brackets Finals
Edition Year Venue Hosts 3rd Place Score
(BO3)		 Advanced to
Upper Brackets Finals
1
2017
 Indonesia Solid Gaming Alpha
0–2
 IDNS
2
2018
 Indonesia RRQ.O2
2–0
 Aerowolf Roxy
3
2019
 Philippines ArkAngel
0–2
 Louvre Esports
4
2020
 Philippines
Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic

Semi Finals
Edition Year Venue Hosts 4th Place Score
(BO3)		 Advanced to
Lower Brackets Finals
1
2017
 Indonesia Impunity
0–2
 Solid Gaming Alpha
2
2018
 Indonesia Aerowolf Roxy
Bronze Match
3
2019
 Philippines Overclockers
1–2
 ArkAngel
4
2020
 Philippines
Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic

= Bronze Match Instead of Lower Brackets Finals

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