2024 Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Mid Season Cup

2024
Tournament information
Game	Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
Dates	28 June–14 July 2024
Administrator	Moonton, Esports World Cup
Tournament format(s)	Group stage Single Round Robin Format Playoffs Single-elimination Format
Host(s)	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Participants	16 teams
Purse	$3,000,000
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The 2024 Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Mid Season Cup, commonly referred to as MSC 2024, will be the seventh edition of the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Mid Season Cup, an esports tournament for the mobile game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.

MSC 2024 will be the first edition of the tournament bearing the name "Mid Season Cup", formerly stylized as the "Southeast Asia Cup". The tournament was rebranded to the Mid Season Cup in lieu of the Southeast Asia Cup due to its venue, hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the first tournament in MLBB to be held outside of Southeast Asia.^[1] Moreover, following the previous edition in Phnom Penh, the tournament invited several regions apart from Southeast Asia teams from competing. Furthermore, it will bear the largest prize pool in any MLBB professional tournament in history, boasting a $3 million prize pool with the champions winning $1 million.^[2]

Background[edit]

The MSC 2024 is the first edition of the tournament that will be held in Saudi Arabia, specifically the city of Riyadh.^[3] The country also previously hosted the Asia and Oceania Qualifiers for IESF 2023.^[4] MSC 2024 will feature teams from Asia, North America, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe and Latin America. Teams qualified through their region's qualification method, whether it will be an MPL Region or a Moonton-approved qualification tournament.

The hosting will be in collaboration with Saudi Arabia's government-backed multi-title esports series, the Esports World Cup.

Venue[edit]

MSC 2024 was announced to be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Qualified teams[edit]

Qualifying for the MSC 2024 tournament comes from the competing nation's Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional League, commonly known as "MPL". However, regional/non-MPL qualifiers in the North America, Türkiye, Myanmar, and Chinese regions were also held to broaden the reach of the Championship's teams.

MSC 2024 shall be composed of the following twelve regions that automatically send 15 teams combined:^[5]

Region	League	Qualification method	Team name	ID	Group
Philippines	MPL Philippines	MPL Philippines Season 13 Champions	Liquid Echo	TLPH	TBA
		MPL Philippines Season 13 First Runner-ups	Falcons AP Bren	FCAP	TBA
Indonesia	MPL Indonesia	MPL Indonesia Season 13 Champions	Fnatic ONIC	FNOC	TBA
		MPL Indonesia Season 13 Runners-up	EVOS Glory	EVOS	TBA
Middle East and North Africa	MPL MENA	MPL MENA Season 5 Champions	Team Falcons	FLCN	TBA
		Highest-Ranking Saudi Team	Twisted Minds	TWIS	TBA
Latin America	MPL LATAM	MPL LATAM Season 1 Champions	RRQ Akira	RRQ	TBA
Malaysia	MPL Malaysia	MPL Malaysia Season 13 Champions	Selangor Red Giants	SRG	TBA
Singapore	MPL Singapore	MPL Singapore Season 7 Champions	NIP Flash	NPFL	TBA
Cambodia	MPL Cambodia	MPL Cambodia Season 6 Champions	SeeYouSoon	SYS	TBA
Eastern Europe and Central Asia	MLBB Continental Championships	MLBB Continental Championships Season 3 Champions	Team Spirit	TS	TBA
Myanmar	MSC 2024 Myanmar Qualifier	MSC 2024 Myanmar Qualifier Champions	Falcon Esports	FCON	TBA
Türkiye	MLBB Türkiye Championships	MLBB Türkiye Championships Season 3 Champions	Fire Flux Esports	FF	TBA
North America	MLBB North America Challenger Tournament	MLBB North America Challenger Tournament Spring 2024 Champions	Cloud9	C9	TBA
China	MSC 2024 China Qualifier	MSC 2024 China Qualifier Champions	Xianyou Gaming	ixyg	TBA

In addition, one team will qualify for MSC 2024 via the 8-team Wildcard Tournament.

Region	League	Qualification method	Team name	ID	Group
Latin America	MPL LATAM	MPL LATAM Season 1 Runners-up	Entity7	EN7	TBA
Malaysia	MPL Malaysia	MPL Malaysia Season 13 Runners-up	HomeBois	HB	TBA
Eastern Europe and Central Asia	MLBB Continental Championships	MLBB Continental Championships Season 3 First Runner-ups	Brute Force	BF	TBA
Türkiye	MLBB Türkiye Championships	MLBB Türkiye Championships Season 3 First Runner-ups	S2G Esports	S2G	TBA
South Asia	MLBB Champion Battles	MLBB Champion Battles Season 3 Champions	Trained to Kill	TTK	TBA
Mekong Region	M Challenge Cup	M Challenge Cup Season 3 Champions	Zino Zenith	ZEN	TBA
China	MSC 2024 China Qualifier	MSC 2024 China Qualifier First Runner-ups	KeepBest Gaming	KBG	TBA
Mongolia	MSC 2024 Mongolia Qualifier	MSC 2024 Mongolia Qualifier Champions	IHC Esports	IHC	TBA

Group and Wildcard Draws[edit]

Group Draw[edit]

The Group Draw for the upcoming MSC 2024 was announced via the official Facebook page for Mobile Legends Esports. These include the dates of the tournaments' stages such as the Wild Cards and the Group Stages. Moreover, the post also announced the rules for the upcoming Group Draw for MSC 2024.

Group Draw:

• All 16 qualified teams for the Group Stage will be split into 2 Pools: Pool 1 and Pool 2.
• Pool 1 includes the Champions and Runners-up for MPL Philippines and MPL Indonesia's recently concluded seasons, all other teams including the lone-team that have qualified via the Wild Card tournament will be put in Pool 2.
• The Group Draw order will be ABCD→ABCD→ABCD→ABCD until all teams have been grouped.
• There will be no avoidance principle for teams from the same region.
• Team As from the Group Draw order will all be Pool 1 teams while the remaining teams will come from Pool 2.

Wildcard Draw[edit]

The Wildcard draw was also announced in the same post.

Wildcard Draw:

• All 8 Wildcard teams will be put into one pool.
• The first drawn team will be put in Group A and the second drawn team will be put in Group B. This system will repeat until all teams have been separated into two groups of four teams. (Example, 1A, 2B, 3A, 4B, etc.)

Group Draw Pools

Pool 1
Liquid ECHO	Fnatic ONIC ID	Falcons AP Bren	EVOS Glory
Pool 2
Red Selangor Giants	SeeYouSoon	Falcon Esports	Team Spirit
Fire Flux Esports	Cloud 9	RRQ Akira	Xianyou Gaming
NIP Flash	Team Falcons	Twisted Minds	Wild Card Qualifier

Wild Card rounds[edit]

Teams qualifying for the Wild Card tournament are divided into two groups of four teams each, playing in a single round-robin format. Matches in the wild card rounds are scheduled to be played from June 28–30. All matches in this phase are a best-of-one series, with only the top seed per group qualifying for the decider match to determine which team will advance to the group stage. The decider match is a best-of-five series.^[6]

Group A[edit]

Group B[edit]

Decider match[edit]

Group stage[edit]

Matches in the group stage are a best-of-two series, with potential best-of-one tiebreakers to be played if necessary. Only the top two teams per group advance to the quarterfinals.^[6]

Group A[edit]

Group B[edit]

Group C[edit]

Group D[edit]

Knockout Stage[edit]

All matches are a best-of-five series, except for the Grand Final which is a best-of-seven series.^[7]

Final standings[edit]

Final standings, Esports Club Championship points distribution, and prizepool of USD 3,000,000 distribution are as seen as below:^[8]

References[edit]