MLBB M6 World Championship

The MLBB M6 World Championships was the sixth Mobile Legends: Bang Bang World Championship and the second edition of the games to be held in Malaysia, who hosted the inaugural edition M1 World Championship. The hosting was in collaboration with Malaysia's Ministry of Youth and Sports and Moonton. The country also previously hosted the wildcard phase of the M5 tournament. == Venues ==

Qualifying for the M6 World Championship comes from the competing nation/region's Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional League or commonly known as "MPL." However, regional qualifiers in the North America, Turkey, Myanmar, China and European regions are also held to broaden the reach of the Championship's teams. A single team shall also qualify from the M6 Wildcards. M6 has returned the number of natural qualifiers for MPL Malaysia to two qualifying teams. Instead of a singular slot, two teams from the Mekong region will now have an opportunity to redeem a spot in the group stages through the M6 Wildcard event. Turkey's Ulfhednar (formerly Fire Flux Esports) qualified for the Swiss Stage after defeating CIS' Insilio 30 in the Wild Card decider stage. Group Stage: 28 November 2024 to 5 December 2024 Similar to 2024 League of Legends World Championship and Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024, the M6 World Championships featured a Swiss-round format in the group stages. • Round 1 • The 16 teams will be randomly matched • Matches will be Bo1 • Round 2 • The 8 teams that have 1-0 aggregate will be randomly matched • Matches will be Bo1 • The 8 teams that have 0-1 aggregate will be randomly matched • Matches will be Bo1 • Round 3 • The 4 teams that have 2-0 aggregate will be randomly matched • The winners of this round will advance to the Knockouts Stage • Matches will be Bo3 • The 8 teams that have 1-1 aggregate will be randomly matched • Matches will be Bo1 • The 4 teams that have 0-2 aggregate will be randomly matched • The losers of this round will be eliminated from the tournament • Matches will be Bo3 • Round 4 • The 6 teams that have 2-1 aggregate will be randomly matched • The winners of this round will advance to the Knockouts Stage • Matches will be Bo3 • The 6 teams that have 1-2 aggregate will randomly match • The losers of this round will be eliminated from the tournament • Matches will be Bo3 • Round 5 • The 6 teams that have 2-2 aggregate will be randomly matched • The winners of this round will advance to the Knockouts Stage • The losers of this match will be eliminated from the tournament • Matches will be Bo3 Knockout Stage: 7–15 December 2024 • Double Elimination Bracket • All matches are played in a Bo5 series. Upper bracket quarterfinals are played in a Bo3. • Grand Finals will be played in a Bo7. Wildcard Groups The M6 Wild Card tournament was a qualifying tournament for the champions and runner-ups of other MLBB domestic tournaments. The winning team, Ulfhednar, qualified for the group stages of MLBB M6 World Championship. The M6 World Championship was the second edition to include a wild card round. South Asia has now been removed from the Wildcards. • Wildcard Groups: 21 to 24 November 2024 • Eight teams will be randomly drawn into two groups • Single Round Robin, all matches are played in Bo3 • Top 1 team from each group advance to Decider Stage • Crossover Match: 24 November 2024 • First placer of one group will compete in a Bo5 against the first placer from the other group. • Winner of the crossover match will advance to Group Stage. • Loser will be eliminated. == Roster(s) ==

With Turkish representatives Ulfhednar winning the decider match of the Wild Card stage, they qualified for the Swiss Stage. This is the first time that the Turkish Region had two representatives competing in the main stage of the World Championships. Swiss Stage Wild Card Stage Several teams from the MLBB M5 World Championships make their return in the wild card stage while a portion of the teams are newly qualified to the world championships. Ulfhednar was formerly known as Fire Flux Esports before a rebranding effort and RRQ Akira returns as LATAM's runners-up. Niightmare Esports most recently qualified during the M4 World Championships. == Swiss Stage ==

Bracket All bracket stage matches were either a Best of 1 or Best of 3. The winning team will qualify in the upper portion of the Swiss bracket until the first top two teams whom have an undefeated record advance to the knockout stage. Three teams would follow suit and will qualify in the second round of qualifiers and the final three teams with a 3–2 record will qualify for the knockouts. Every round featured a random draw by the players themselves to determine the succeeding matchups. Both Malaysian representatives took significant defeats against underdog regions in Turkey and MENA when S2G Esports defeated MSC 2024 champions Selangor Red Giants and Twisted Minds defeating MPL Malaysia's runner-up Team Vamos. The Philippines and Indonesia have equal numbers of teams in the 1-0 and 0-1 brackets with Fnatic ONIC Philippines and RRQ Hoshi in the 1-0 bracket and Aurora Gaming and Team Liquid ID in the lower half. This series of the world championship became the first since the M1 World Championships that the Philippines only has one remaining contestant in the competition prior to the knockout stage after the 20 sweep by Team Liquid ID at Aurora Gaming. This series also was the second-consecutive world championships that North America will fail to qualify for knockouts. The last time it qualified was during the M4 World Championships. == M6 Wild Card ==

Draw On November 8, a draw for the competing wild card teams were done to determine the groups of all eight wild card teams. The draw was officiated by former Malaysian caster-turned-host Aiman "Laphel" Kamal alongside the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Youth and Sports Adam Adli and Moonton Games representative Fkri Rizal Mahruddin. The eight teams were grouped through random picks in the wild card draw and whoever wins the wild card qualifying tournament will qualify in the Swiss Stage to go up against North America's BloodThirstyKings. Group Stage All teams will play a single-round robin match where all will be a Best of 3. Only the top 1 team will move on to the decider stage the bracket to determine the final wild card team qualifying for the Swiss stage. Group A Group B Group A Matches Group B Matches == Knockout Stage ==

Coming into the knockout stage, many have dubbed M6 as an unpredictable tournament as many rising regions pulls off upsets from established powerhouses. Falcon Esports swept Singapore's NIP Flash who finished fourth in the M3 World Championships while both Malaysian representatives fell to the lower bracket after losing to the Philippines and Indonesia. Team Vamos would suffer a 31 early playoff exit to CIS' Team Spirit who would pull of the same result to Falcon Esports in the lower bracket quarterfinals. Meanwhile, Selangor Red Giants crawled its way from the play-ins to the lower bracket finals when it defeated Team Spirit in a 3–0 sweep. In the lower-bracket finals, Indonesia's Team Liquid ID won in a 30 sweep against the Malaysian champions Selangor Red Giants, setting the stage for another Philippines vs. Indonesia Grand Finale. This was come just short of a year cycle of Philippines vs. Indonesia Grand Final in M5 (ONIC Esports vs. AP Bren). == Grand Finals ==

Announcements Prior to the Best of 7 series, Moonton Games played a clip celebrating the successes and achievements of Mobile Legends in its eight years of publication. The major news that broke during the announcement period was the official launch of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang to Moonton Games' homeland China. Prior to 2024, Mobile Legends in the Eastern Giant had not been released for several reasons including its steep competition with its computer counterpart League of Legends. However, in January 2025, Mobile Legends is set to be released formally to nearly 1.4 billion people residing in China. After the launch announcement of MLBB to China, the Esports World Cup Federation also announced that Mobile Legends: Bang Bang will remain a part of the Esports World Cup in 2025. Following the EWC's announcement, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang introduced a remarketed logo for the game alongside a new world championship competition, the Magic Chess Go Go World Championship which will be occurring by next year. MLBB M7 World Championship The Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports of Malaysia Adam Adli Abdul Halim joined the hosts of M6 onstage to announce the venue for the M7 World Championship. However, it was confirmed that the venue for the Grand Finale will take its sights back to Indonesia. It has been confirmed that M7 will be the first multi-national held event with certain phases of the tournament being hosted in certain parts of the MLBB ecosystem. Game 1 Game 1 showcased both teams' early game slow-scaling effort as gold leads were traded left and right, with it not rising to nine hundred as the mid-game arrived. After FNOP's Kirk drew first blood to TLID's roamer Widdy, it became a 2 for-1 situation as FNOP took down two players in Widy and Aran, but TLID's Jungler Faviannn took the neutral turtle objective at 3:36. In the potential skirmish for the second-turtle take, Team Liquid ID transitioned to micro-gameplay as they scattered across the map. Faviann was the catalyst for pushing the top and bottom tier one turret that gave TLID a slight gold advantage despite FNOP taking the second turtle of the game at 6:13. Widdy would fall to Kelra, and Faviann would slay Kelra back however, it was a 3-1 trade of kills with FNOP taking down Widdy, Faviann, and Aeronshikii while TLID only took down Kelra. It was a significant win for FNOP in terms of gameplay because TLID traded a Jungler, a Gold Laner, and a Roamer—two backcourt and one frontcourt hero—for a singular Gold Laner—this disabled TLID's ability to defend their top lane as Kirk pushed the first-tier turret. FNOP's early game lead and a subsequent trounce on TLID during the mid-game forced the Indonesian squad back to their base at 10:18 into the match. Kelra sniped Aeronshikii, who was trying to set up a damaged play with Claude's signature skill. FNOP extended their lead three games to 1 after securing the largest gold lead in the series thus far at 14.8k gold. Game 4 was also the fastest game in all of M6 at 10:34 seconds. Game 5 After another close early game from both teams, Team Liquid ID remains its composure during every skirmish FNOP launches at them. These include the 9:48 take on the lord which TLID capitalize in taking nearly three lives of FNOP's roster. Regardless of the pickoffs, FNOP remains to be in the lead at times due to their critical neutral objective takes. However, after a successfully calculated real world manipulation by Super Frince, FNOP brawled out and went in for the kill that nearly wiped out the entire roster of TLIDa 3 for 1 tradesends this game into total control for FNOP. A crucial shadow kill use from Faviann sends him to his untimely demise when Kelra's sphere connected with his shadow teleport, killing Faviann in a potential comeback for TLID when defending their base. This comes in handy for the Filipino squad as they got the second lord of the game during his absence. In another calculated play on the blue-side jungle of TLID, they traded another kill but to FNOP's advantage as they only lost Brusko and took the lord while TLID lost both of their frontline heroes. TLID's momentum never materialized from their early game advantage as FNOP was able to capitalize on their crucial positions to win the Philippines its fifth-consecutive world title. ==Record(s)==

During the Lower Bracket Quarter Final match between Selangor Red Giants (SRG) and Rex Regum Qeon Hoshi (RRQ), John Vincent "Innocent" Banal delivered a historic performance on the hero Granger in Game 3, tallying 19 kills to set the all-time single-game kills record in the M-Series – coincidentally against the previous record holder, Schevenko David "Skylar" Tendean of RRQ. During the upper bracket finals, Fnatic ONIC Philippines pulled a rare feat of attaining a nearly 15,000-gold lead during Game 1 against Team Liquid ID. They finished the fastest game in the upper bracket at 10 minutes 53 seconds, just three seconds faster than Team Vamos' match against RRQ Hoshi during the quarterfinals. == Marketing ==

Viewership The MLBB World Championships has been monitored by the website Esports Charts for its live viewership matches for the M6 World Championships. The following matches have been the most-watched series by live viewers for this tournament. Bold Face - Denotes the team won that specific game Live viewership for Indonesian, Filipino, and Malaysian teams have consistently been the highest for the past iterations of the World Championships with the Burmese and Cambodian viewership having to trail significantly behind the three largest regions in MLBB. The M-Pass is an annual tournament pass for Mobile Legends: Bang Bang's M World Championship that gives players numerous rewards and incentives while doing Daily Tasks and Challenges. This edition of the pass includes custom M6 effects such as recall animations, kill animations, a trail animation, limited edition skins, and various in-game rewards that can be used to unlock more rewards. Upon purchasing any M6 Pass, Claude's "Challenger's Spark" Skin would be attained by every person who purchase it while its Prime skin "Cosmic Blaze" is able to be attained once the player's M6 pass reaches Level 75. The M6 Pass was officially made to be available on November 18. Theme Song On 8 November 2024, the tournament's official song and music video "Game Never Over" written by Bjørgen van Essen was released in the game's official YouTube channel. The Malay version titled "Perjuangan Takkan Tamat" performed by Faizal Tahir was released on November 18, 2024, through Faizal's, the game's main and Malaysia YouTube channel. Regional Theme Songs On 24 November, Archie dela Cruz, popularly known as Flow G, collaborated with MPL Philippines and released the song titled "Pinakamalakas". Astro Showcase x M6 Carnival For the very first time, this M6 series will bringing a carnival that will rock at the Axiata Arena with unforgettable entertainment. Top-tier local artist will light up the stage such as, Hael Husaini, Naim Daniel, Firdaus Rahmat and many more, ready to deliver outstanding performances on 13 December until 15 December 2024 in collaboration with Astro. Existing Astro customers in Malaysia could also redeem an exclusive passes their M6 Lower Bracket Finals or Grand Finals tickets on MyAstro App. Championship skins Following Fnatic ONIC PH triumph victory, the team has been asking in the post-match media interview of which hero will they choose. According to Grant Duane "Kelra" Pillas, the Finals MVP, he prefers to have either Luo Yi or Joy while for himself, he wants Beatrix, his own signature hero due to his stellar performance in the upper bracket and Grand Final matches with the hero that memorized him as "The Gold Standard". In addition, he also stated that Beatrix have a versatility of weapon to be used and high damage output that makes her become core in the tournaments for Gold Laners. become the first hero to have M-Series skin (M4 Prime) and champion skin (FMVP). According to FNOC's Vice President (now known as ONIC Philippines), Paul Denver "Yeb" Lintag Miranda, the team chose Joy because of "almost represents ONIC Philippines with her skills and vibrant color (yellow)". In addition on his quote, Moonton also comfimed that Kelra himself will co-design Beatrix FMVP skin. According to him, he wants to signify his legacy in the scene with the precise to adapt and shooting to enemies as a Gold Laner. == Awards ==

On December 14, the M6 World Championships announced an awarding ceremony for multiple awards for teams and individuals. They were distributed by executive members of Moonton, the game developers of Mobile Legends. Bold Face – Denotes the player/team won the award == Final standing ==

Disconnection issue During the crucial match between Turkey's Ulfhednar and China's DianFengYaoGuai (DFYG), a crucial pick off was made on Liu "Zzzed" Chenjian when his hero died inside of the turret that led to the eventual collapse and subsequent defeat of the Chinese squad. The team however, filed a protest against the game, stating that Liu's device disconnected from the Wi-Fi signal inside of the venue that led to the eventual defeat of DFYG. The investigation however ruled that DFYG's claim was not insufficient for a rematch thus continuing the decider match between Ulfhednar and Insilio. Public outrage was shown on social media especially the Chinese fanbase of DFYG. == Notes ==