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Mobile Legends: Bang Bang: its professional leagues, teams and world championships.

Leagues

How Mobile Legends: Bang Bang's Five-Region World Championship Model Works

MOONTON is rebuilding the M Series around five global regions instead of one Southeast Asian host city, with the M8 Finals set for Istanbul in 2027.

13 min read
Leagues

MPL Indonesia and Philippines Season 18 near playoffs, two M8 seats each

Season 18 of the two franchised Mobile Legends leagues enters its last regular-season weeks, with Team Falcons PH and Team Liquid ID on top and two M8 places at stake in each.

9 min read
Media Rights

Asian Games MLBB final peaks above 822,600 as Myanmar take gold

Esports Charts counted more than 822,600 peak viewers for the first Asian Games final in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, with Indonesian the leading language and YouTube the main platform.

8 min read
Salaries

MPL Philippines salary ceiling: 900,000 pesos a month and contract rules

The Season 18 rulebook of MPL Philippines caps what a team pays its active roster each month and sets the terms of every player contract. What it says, clause by clause.

16 min read
Venues

M8 World Championship: Wild Card in Bangkok, finals in Istanbul

Moonton names the two host cities of the next Mobile Legends world championship, whose finals are set for January 2027, with a record ten-team Wild Card for three places.

8 min read
Sponsorships

MPL Malaysia Season 18 opens with three new names among its sponsors

CelcomDigi and Infinix stay at the top of MPL Malaysia's sponsor list for Season 18, TODAK moves from team to partner and CHERY Malaysia, AXE and Joytify join the line-up.

8 min read
Tournaments

Team Spirit Beat Yangon Galacticos to Win the MLBB Mid-Season Cup

Team Spirit came back from 3-1 down to beat Yangon Galacticos 4-3, becoming the first team outside Southeast Asia to win a Mobile Legends Mid-Season Cup.

8 min read
Technology

How MSC 2026 rules handle phones, headsets and lag in Mobile Legends

Organizer phones only, approved headsets, pauses for input delay and a game of record at 35 seconds: how the MSC 2026 rulebook deals with the technical side of Mobile Legends.

17 min read
Integrity

Running a licensed MLBB tournament: the integrity rules that come with it

How an outside organizer gets Moonton's license for a Mobile Legends: Bang Bang event, and what ESIC's codes then require of the organizer, its teams, players and staff.

15 min read
Publishers

Moonton makes ESIC rules a condition of every MLBB tournament license

Organizers who want Moonton's approval to run an official Mobile Legends: Bang Bang tournament must now write the Esports Integrity Commission's program into their rules.

10 min read
Publishers

How Mobile Legends esports is organized in five regions in 2026

Moonton's 2026 road map splits Mobile Legends esports into five regions. Here is where the national leagues sit, how the world championship is reached and which events are planned.

13 min read
Investment

Savvy Games Group agrees to buy Mobile Legends maker Moonton

ByteDance has agreed to sell Moonton, the studio behind Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, to Saudi-owned Savvy Games Group, Bloomberg and Reuters report. No price is officially disclosed.

10 min read
Transfers

Team Liquid PH add three players, one on loan, for MPL PH Season 17

The reigning MPL Philippines champion signs Daikiqt and Santi Sucre, borrows AeronnShikii from its Indonesian team and parts with Perkz. What the moves change in the squad.

9 min read
Leagues

MPL Malaysia names the eight teams of its Partnership Programme

Moonton has picked three Malaysian organizations and five from Indonesia, China and Singapore for Season 17 of MPL Malaysia, under a partnership that Bernama says runs four years.

9 min read