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(EsPI) Image credit: Moonton Games.

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is probably the biggest esports title that most people have never heard of.

Headed by Moonton Games, a subsidiary of ByteDance (TikToks-based) and launched in 2016 and became the leading mobile MOBA.

The games generate huge viewership figures that regularly increase millions of people, while Southeast Asia is the primary market for mobile ganders. According to the esports data platform Esports Charts, the titles that have been awarded the World Championship resulted in an impressive 4.27 million top-viewers.

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From a wider perspective on the enterprise, the mobile 5v5 MOBA title utilises multiple structures, including a franchise, open tournament and a promotion/relation league format.

Moonton has seven MPL leagues on offer, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Brazil, Kenya, Africa, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Currently, the Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia use an open-source scheme, while the others use a traditional format.

This is used to determine the top teams from every region that compete in major events, such as the M World Championship or MLBB Southeast Asian Cup/ LIGA LATAM (depending on the region). Other regions such as Turkey, LATAM, and North America regularly feature less-scale MLBB competitions that enable such a high scoring competition.

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Paradoxally, the games continued to expand, and has even further increased, MLBB also has a popular female esports ecosystem. Mobile Legends: Bang Bang broke up male and female categories at the 2023 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games. Both were popular with 1,37 million audience members. This is the highest view record from the female event ever.

Similarly to developers like Riot Games, 343 Industries and Supercell, Moonton is very hands-on when it comes to its esports ecosystem and is the teem-tiet-maker’s most important event. However, the developer has collaborated with the third parties, ONE Esports and ESL, to host some esports events.

Leagues and tournaments worth a thousand pounds are required.

Mobile Legends are recognized as the titles-the-art art, and mobile MOBAs are well regarded from the SEA Games and the Snap Dragon Pro Series.

LIGA LATAMOne Esports MPL InvitationalMLBB Southeast Asia CupSnapdragon Pro SeriesMPLSoutheast Asian GamesM WALCOM-WMB GamesM World Championships

Most people looked into tournaments.

Mobile Legends hits the jackpot every weekend, because there are a lot of things that don’t matter to mobile sports enthusiasts. Throughout these days Esports Charts has found success in Indonesian market. The market has got many notable regional figures for the country’s own league.

Image credit: MPL Cambodia.

Notable organisations

For Western audiences, many of the mentioned organizations may not ring a bell. Nevertheless, many of these teams have become juggernauts from across Southeast Asia and particularly within Mobile Legends.

Note this is a “off-the-counter” list, but exclusion does not signify an organisation isn’t notable.

Falcon – Crossfly – GMOE Sportie (USA)District – Wrong-Cast/Cruw, Inc. – GMOE Sportie Esports & Blood & Blood. Tom Daniels Tom has been on the Esports Insider team since October 2020 and is currently the platform’s editorial specialist. While he isn’t playing Football Manager, he enjoys working with the mobile game scene, and as well as gambling.