The 2025 MPL Philippines season was the eighth year of professional and the third year of amateur gameplay in the Philippines for the multiplayer online battle arena game '. This year collates two season splits for both MPL Philippines and MDL Philippines.
The year began with the inaugural Magic Chess Go Go World Championships where new teams competed for a new world title. The ' world championships was announced during the announcement portion of the MLBB M6 World Championship in Malaysia. Following the world championship is MPL Philippines Season 15 and MDL Philippines Season 5, the two regional competitions for the professional and amateur scenes of the Philippines. Eight teams are competing for a chance to qualify for second iteration of the Esports World Cup in Riyadh where the ' or MSC 2025 will be held coinciding with it. The Philippines has yet to win MSC since 2022 when RSG Philippines won the country's last title.
With the conclusion of MSC 2025, the second splitMPL Philippines Season 16 and MDL Philippines Season 6was held. MPL Philippines featured the same eight teams to compete for two slots in the upcoming MLBB M7 World Championship. Team Liquid PH became the first back-to-back MPL champions since Blacklist International in 2021.
The seventh iteration of the tournament will be held in Indonesia. The tournament will return to the Southeast Asian giant for the first time since M4. However, similarly to M3, the M7 World Championships will be held in 2026 to avoid scheduling conflicts with the 2025 SEA Games.
The Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional League of the Philippines (MPL Philippines) is a professional esports league managed by Moonton Games. MPL Philippines was established with sister-leagues MPL Indonesia and MPL Malaysia (formerly known as MPL MYSG) to accommodate the growing population of esports players for the sports discipline. Since its establishment nine different teams have won the MPL Philippines championship title from Aether Main to most-recently ONIC Philippines. Prior to Season 16, Blacklist International holds the most number of championship titles by any organization in the Philippines with 3, winning Season 7, Season 8, and Season 10.
Since Season 8, the league has transitioned to a franchise-based system, thereby effectively removing the qualifier portion of MPL Philippines. Their transition to a franchise-based league was with their fellow-sister league MPL Indonesia.
MPL Philippines Season 15 was held at the Green Sun Hotel in Makati, the same venue for the MPL Philippines Season 14 Regular and Playoffs season. MDL Philippines would remain an online event with the Finals being played offline.
MPL Philippines Season 16 was the first season since Season 13 with the playoffs and grand finals being held in a different location. Season 16 was held at the Green Sun Hotel in Makati while the Playoffs was at the Cuneta Astrodome in Pasay City.
Season 15 was the fifteenth iteration of MPL Philippines and the seventh season since the league transitioned to the franchise-base system. Season 15 featured eight franchise teams that have competed during MPL Philippines Season 14.Team Liquid made its entry during the midpoint of MPL Philippines Season 13 after acquiring Aura Esports, the organization that held teams in MPL Indonesia and the Philippines. The most-recent entry for any team was Dota 2 organization Aurora Gaming who acquired the slot of Minana EVOS during the offseason of Season 14.
Season 15 is well known for the departures of the two original franchises for MPL Philippines: Blacklist International and RSG Philippines. Both of their slots have been bought out by Saudi Arabian-organizations Team Falcons and Twisted Minds.
Notable Returns
Transfers
Notable International Transfers and Departures
Other events
MPL Philippines follows a double-round robin tournament format where each team face each other twice during the regular season. Each team will play 14 Best of three matches for the entirety of the first split. The top six teams will advance to the playoffs.
Notable free agents
The following players have been listed as free agents after leaving a certain team last season and has not signed with a new club for this season in any league.
TNC Pro Team's win over AP Bren during Week 1 was the team's first win since MPL Philippines Season 13. TNC went 0âÂÂ14 in the previous season which prolonged to 0-15 when they lost their opening match to the defending champions ONIC Philippines.
MPL Philippines would halt the season from the period of April 13 to April 20 in observance to the Holy Week. Moreover, the league halted its matches to make way for the ESL Snapdragon Mobile Masters 2025 for teams who qualified for both the play-ins and playoffs.
After a three-week break, the Season 15 playoffs began to determine the Philippines' two representatives for MSC 2025.
(#3) ONIC Philippines vs. (#6) Twisted Minds PH
Defending champions ONIC Philippines are matched up against Twisted Minds PH who barely made the playoffs with a 311 record. ONIC Philippines came in as the overwhelming favorites for the series. After a 20 lead over Twisted Minds, the underdogs tied up the series for the first of four-consecutive game-five series in the playoffs which ultimately went to ONIC Philippines. ONIC eliminated Twisted Minds and advanced to the next round against Aurora Gaming.
(#4) Team Falcons PH vs. (#5) TNC Pro Team
For the second matchup, it's M5 world champions roster now under Team Falcons PH against TNC Pro Team who qualified for the playoffs for the first time since their franchise-best 95 record during MPL Philippines Season 9. In another best-of-five series against the former world championship roster Team Falcons, Team Falcons held the advantage at a 21 series but with a rally in Game 4, its series became the second-consecutive five-game series. Team Falcons however would win Game 5 over TNC Pro Team which qualified them for the playoffs, the first time in a while that the Top 4 were included in the playoff picture.
(#2) Aurora Gaming vs. (#3) ONIC Philippines
Defending champions ONIC Philippines would face off the super team Aurora Gaming in a rematch from the Grand Finals. In another close-series of trading games left and right, ONIC PH would prevail and hold a 30 head-to-head record in the playoffs. In Season 14, they lost in two seriesincluding the Grand Finalsto then Fnatic ONIC Philippines and this becomes their third series loss against ONIC Philippines in a series in the playoffs. ONIC would make it to the Upper Bracket Finals in a 50-50 chance to qualify for MSC.
(#1) Team Liquid PH vs. (#4) Team Falcons PH
Top seed Team Liquid PH saw themselves in an 02 hole over Team Falcons. However, Team Liquid would prevail in three-straight matches over Team Falcons, play after play that sent the Falcons down to the lower-bracket semifinals against Aurora and in a potential elimination match for them.
(#1) Team Liquid PH vs. (#3) ONIC Philippines
Team Liquid Philippines and ONIC Philippines qualified for the Upper Bracket Finals and was the first time that a first seed would matchup with the three-seed in the upper-bracket in a long while. The only three-seed who prevailed in the upper-bracket finals against another team were ONIC during Season 5, Execration in Season 7, and Blacklist International in a back-to-back campaign in Seasons 11 and 12.
(#2) Aurora Gaming vs. (#4) Team Falcons PH
After both teams' loss early in the upper-bracket semifinals, former M6 representatives and grand finalists Aurora Gaming matched up against former MSC 2024 representatives and M5 champions Team Falcons in the lower bracket semifinals. As reflected by the upper bracket finals, Team Falcons PH, with their extensive playoff experience and veteran leadership of its players, swept the second-seed Aurora Gaming 30 to face Team Liquid PH in the lower-bracket finals and in another chance to qualify for MSC.
(#1) Team Liquid PH vs. (#4) Team Falcons PH
The two former MSC 2024 representatives were battling each other in the lower bracket finals in a best-of-seven series. This is the second-consecutive season where the lower bracket finals is a best of seven. Team Liquid PH orchestrated a 2âÂÂ0 lead early in the series which was then countered by Falcons after a Game 3 dominant win. However, TLPH would still win Game 4 to get match point until a Game 5 win over the squad that pushed the series to six games. In Game 6, Falcons would be eliminated as TLPH qualified for MSC and their fifth finals appearance.
(#1) Team Liquid Philippines vs. (#3) ONIC Philippines
Team Liquid PH and ONIC Philippines were the grand finalists for MPL Philippines Season 15, a rematch of the upper-bracket finals where ONIC swept Team Liquid that qualified them for MSC 2025. The best of seven series saw an immediate back-and-forth of game wins from both sides but ultimately, Team Liquid PH won in seven games over ONIC Philippines, denying ONIC a chance to repeat as champions.
Coinciding with the professional league, MDL Philippines is occurring the same time frame. MDL Philippines' fifth season includes all eight franchise MDL teams alongside four qualifying local teams.
For Season 5, MDL Philippines has invited one team and has openly qualified seven other amateur teams from across the country, making the total number of participating teams for this season at 12, the largest pool of teams in MDL Philippines thus far.
Each team will be put into four different groups. Based on their seeds on their group finish, they will be put in another group for a seeding match for the play-in bracket. Only four teams will qualify for the playoffs for Season 5.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
1st to 4th Seed
5th to 8th Seed
9th to 12th Seed
13th to 16th Seed
MPL Philippines Season 16 was the sixteenth iteration of the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional League based in the Philippines. Season 16 is the equivalent to the summer split in other regions and the regional qualifiers for the Philippines in the upcoming MLBB M7 World Championship. With details to be announced for both MPL Philippines and M7, the sixteenth season will feature the same eight franchise teams from Season 15.
Team Liquid PH enters Season 16 as the defending MPL Philippines champions and MSC 2025 champions, defeating then-defending champions ONIC Philippines in seven games during the Season 15 grand finals and defeating then-defending champions Selangor Red Giants OG Esports in five games. Team Liquid PH makes history as the first team since Blacklist International to become back-to-back champions and enters the world championship as both the defending MPL Philippines champions and MSC champions.
Retirement
International Transfers
Domestic Transfers
Mid Season Transfers
The MSC defending champions, Team Liquid PH (TLPH) (9-5), faced the former M5 World Champions roster, Team Falcons PH (5-9). TLPH took a commanding 2-0 lead before Falcons secured a single game, but TLPH ultimately closed the series 3-1, advancing to the Upper Bracket Semifinals to meet ONIC Philippines.
#4 Twisted Minds PH vs. #5 TNC Pro Team
The fourth seed Twisted Minds PH (6-8) met the fifth seed TNC Pro Team (5-9). This was the second-consecutive playoff appearance for both teams and their first play-in bracket clash. TNC took the lead multiple times, reaching match point first, but Twisted Minds equalized the series to force the playoffs' first Game 5. TNC Pro Team won the decisive game, advancing to the Upper Bracket Semifinals.
#2 ONIC Philippines vs. #3 Team Liquid PH
A rematch of the previous season's Grand Finals, this series saw TLPH sweep the defending M6 world champions, ONIC PH, 3-0. This was the only sweep of the playoff bracket. TLPH, whose roster included four world champions, advanced to their second-consecutive Upper Bracket Finals.
#1 Aurora Gaming vs. #5 TNC Pro Team
The dominant first seed Aurora Gaming (13-1), who were on an undefeated win streak, faced the underdog fifth seed TNC Pro Team. Despite expectations of a clear 3-0 or 3-1 victory for Aurora, TNC forced a pivotal Game 5. Aurora secured the win, 3-2, maintaining their undefeated streak and advancing to the Upper Bracket Finals.
#1 Aurora Gaming vs. #3 Team Liquid PH
The finalists of Season 14 and the champions of the previous season (Season 15) met. The series featured a notable matchup between former teammates, as Edward and Yue of Aurora Gaming had previously played with Team Liquid PH's Oheb under Blacklist International. Aurora Gaming defeated TLPH 3-1, securing the first MLBB M7 World Championship seed for the Philippines and their second-consecutive world championship appearance. This series also marked Edward "Edward" Dapadap's unprecedented fifth-consecutive world championship appearance (M3 win, M4 second place, M5 third place, and a M6 appearance).
#2 ONIC Philippines vs. #5 TNC Pro Team
This highly viewed Bo5 series showcased disciplined and aggressive playstyles from both teams. TNC Pro Team reached match point first at 2-1, but ONIC PH tied the series in Game 4, pushing TNC to their third-consecutive Game 5. In the final game, TNC executed a swift victory in thirteen minutes, securing neutral objectives and pushing both sidelanes. This victory ended the defending world champions' back-to-back campaign and sent TNC to the Lower Bracket Finals for the first time since Season 9.
#3 Team Liquid PH vs. #5 TNC Pro Team
The first Best-of-Seven (Bo7) series of the playoffs. Team Liquid PH dominated the match, successfully exploiting the veteran roster of TNC Pro Team, despite TNC securing a Game 2 win to temporarily equalize the series 1-1. Team Liquid PH won the series 4-1, ending TNC Pro Team's deep underdog run. TNC earned the moniker "lason" (poison) from the community due to their unexpected and meteoric performance in the playoffs. TLPH advanced to the Grand Finals and to the MLBB M7 World Championship, one match away from a back-to-back championship and the coveted "" or "Golden Stampede" achievement.
Playoff Bracket
Similarly to Season 5, MDL Philippines Season 6 follows a Win-Draw-Loss system for their regular season with respective seedings being distributed on the second phase of the tournament. It will then lead to the Seeding phase where every team will play a GSL Format bracket to determine their seedings and similar to Season 5, their play-in and playoff bracket will be the same nature.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Unlike Season 5, MDL Philippines Season 6 adhered to the GSL Format, a bracket-style seeding method that would determine who would become the first to fourth seeds. The team who qualified through the upper bracket will become the first seed, the team who qualified in the lower bracket will become the second seed, and those who lost in the second round of elimination will become the third seed while the first elimination losers will become the fourth seed.
Group A Seeding
Group B Seeding
Group C Seeding
Group D Seeding
Similarly to the previous season, the play-in tournament will be used with four teams to qualify for playoffs. The seeding bracket determined the matchups per best-of-three matchup for Round 1.
The ESL Snapdragon Pro Series for Mobile Legends: Bang Bang began during the offseason of MPL Philippines Seasons 15 and 16. The tournament is on its sixth season split into three different tournament levels: The Open Finals, the Challenge Season, and the Challenge Finals with the finale being the ESL Snapdragon Pro Series Masters, in Jakarta. Both amateur and professional teams from MPL Philippines competed in these tournaments.
In the Open Finals, three professional squads competed for a slot in the challenge season: Aurora Gaming, Omega Esports (stylized as Smart Omega), and ONIC Philippines, and four amateur squads: Gamerpact Ascend, Gamerpact Chiefs, Lazy Esports, and RRQ Kaito. The seven representatives played a Best-of-3 Swiss-stage tournament with the top four teams qualifying for the challenge season. Indonesia's Alter Ego and the Philippines' Aurora Gaming both went unscathed in the Swiss stage, going on a perfect 40 record while ONIC Philippines had a 5âÂÂ1 record, dropping only one series to Indonesia's RRQ Hoshi who subsequently qualified as the eight seed. Among the seven representatives, three of them qualified for the Challenge Season.
The Challenge season featured the eight qualifying teams from the Open Final and eight invited teams from the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. All teams were split into four groups with the top two advancing to the Challenge Finals. Among the four Philippine representatives, two teams qualified for the Challenge Finals in ONIC Philippineswho went undefeated in their groupand Aurora Gamingwho only lost two games in their Best of 3 matches.
The Challenge Finals was the third phase of the Snapdragon Pro Series held in February 2025. One team from six different regions were invited by ESL to compete with the six qualifying teams from the Challenge Season. The Philippines had three representatives in the Challenge Finals in ONIC Philippines, Aurora Gaming, and the debutant Team Falcons PH. Among the Philippines' representatives, Team Falcons PH and ONIC Philippines qualified for the ESL Snapdragon Masters with FCON placing fourth and ONIC Philippines in the deciding Grand Finals match against sister team ONIC Esports. ONIC Philippines swept their sister team ONIC Esports to claim the Challenge Finals trophy and a shot at Masters in the middle of the split.
The Snapdragon Mobile Masters 2025 was an international tournament held by ESL Snapdragon Pro Series. It was the last iteration of that year's ESL Snapdragon Pro Series competition and is similar to that of the Master's Tours Championship. ONIC Philippines qualified for the Mobile Masters as the champions of the Challenge Finals. In the group stage, ONIC Philippines had an equal-best record with Indonesian team RRQ Hoshi but RRQ edged them out by just one game. ONIC had a 5âÂÂ0; 10-1 standing while RRQ had a perfect 5âÂÂ0; 10âÂÂ0 record.
Both teams would meet in the Grand Finals and ONIC Philippines won the series in 5 games.
The second iteration of the women's division for Mobile Legends: Bang Bang in the 2025 Esports World Cup will be held again coinciding with MSC 2025the men's division. Teams from the Philippines qualified through the Athena League which served as the first official female tournament for MLBB for the female division and the qualifying tournament for Philippine teams to EWC.
In the Athena League, defending MWI champions Omega Empressthe women's division for Smart Omegawas acquired by Natus Vincere midway through the Athena League. This comes after NAVI's own entry to both MLBB in Indonesia and Malaysia. NAVI PH was swept by North American representatives Gaimin Gladiators during the quarterfinals while Team Liquid were swept by Burmese representatives Terror Queens for the third-placer match. This is the Philippines' worst team placement in the MWI tied with Risk Velkhana's fourth-placement in MWI 2023.
The National Team selection for the International Esports Federation World Championships or the IESF World Championships occurred during the first split of the 2025 competitive year on April 21 to April 23, 2025. A total of ten teams qualified to the national team selection, one being the NU Bulldogs. Team Falcons PH would win in a best-of-five series against Team Liquid PH and the Team Falcons PH roster qualified for the IESF World Championships. However, two substitutes were picked from TLPH and ONIC Philippines that being Grant "Kelra" Pillas and Sanford "Sanford" Vinuya. However, the team would fail to qualify for the IESF World Championships, losing 2-0 to the eventual combine champions Cambodia and losing in the third-place match against Myanmar.
The National Team selection for the 2025 SEA Games was held from June 25 to June 27, 2025 as part of the National Team Selection representing the Philippines for the MLBB eSports scene in the Southeast Asian Games in Thailand. Five professional teams and five amateur and MDL teams were invited to the tournament with Team Liquid PH besting Team Falcons in the Semifinals and besting MDL champions ONIC Nine Lives in the Grand Finals. The entire roster of TLPH would win the national team selection and adding on John Carlo "Caloy" Roma of Twisted Minds PH as a substitute.
In every split, MPL Philippines announces awards for players across the league such as all star teams and the individual awards such as Regular Season MVP and Finals MVP.
Similarly to Season 14, 2 All-Star Teams will be awarded to ten different players from the five different lanes in-game while one All-Fan Vote team would also be announced. For the second-consecutive season, one team dominated the fan's all-star team.
Adopting similar awards from Season 15, the Rookie of the Season award was reintroduced following the influx of new rookies to the MPL Philippines stage. Twisted Minds PH's Sionnn won the award, the first rookie since Nomed from Season 14. ONIC Philippines would become the first team to go back-to-back domination for the fan's all-star team.
Fans onlinespecifically on Facebook communitieshave called out MPL Philippines for their "cheap" looking medals that were given to the champions Team Liquid PH. Previous iterations of these medals were hard metal-like medals that were evident during MPL PH Season 7 and MPL PH Season 8. However, during the Season 15 awarding ceremony for the champions, the medals were reportedly made out of acrylic or some type of plastic which caused dismay among fans and players alike. Players including Johnmar "OhMyV33Nus" Villaluna and Setsuna "AkoSiDogie" Ignacio publicly expressed dismay with fans calling out MPL Philippines for cheeping out on the medal.
The second incident to match fixing occurred when Twisted Minds' partnered team Bear Esports were exposed to match fixing games in return for profits on bets for or against the team. MDL Philippines conducted and concluded the internal report that Bear Esports players were the main perpetrators to the match fixing allegations. Twisted Minds effectively terminated their partnership and replaced them with Blacklist International with an all female lineup. This marks the first time that an all-female lineup will compete in MDL Philippines and the return of Blacklist International to MLBB.
On July 2, 2025, Renejay Barcase, Tristan Cabrera, John Paul Salonga, and earlier Setsuna Ignaciocollectively known as the original members of the Nexplay EVOS Big Three and one of the most-influential streamers in the Philippineshas collectively departed its teams, organizations, and sponsors related to '. Barcase, Cabrera, and Salonga in particular left their teams: Aurora Gaming, TNC Pro Team and Smart Omega, respectively. A day later, it was announced that the four of them alongside Oscar "Sumpak" Romero was joining Honor of Kings, the direct competitor of MLBB in the mobile scene. This is so far, the largest departure of star talents, players, and personalities from one game, following the lead of original casters Manjean Faldas, Shin Boo Ponferrada, Edgar "ChooxTV" Dumali and Mara Aquino.
Since 2024, many former personalities and content creators of MLBB have switched to Honor of Kings citing different reasons on why they've decided to transfer.