MLBB M6 World Championship


The 2024 Mobile Legends: Bang Bang World Championship, commonly referred to as the M6 World Championship and M6, was the sixth iteration of the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang World Championship, an annual international tournament for the mobile phone MOBA game, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang organized by its developer, Moonton Games. The world championship started from November 21 until December 15, 2024.
The edition of the world series foresaw a new format in group stage by using swiss format that challenged every team to qualify to the next round with the increased prize pool of US$1 million. The format was released on October 13, 2024 through MLBB eSports YouTube channel.
The Philippines' Fnatic ONIC Philippines won in a seven-game series against Indonesia's Team Liquid 41. This is the Philippines' fifth-consecutive title since M2 and the second-consecutive finals that the Philippines and Indonesia faced off.

Background

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

Qualification

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 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.
RegionLeagueQualification methodTeam nameID
PhilippinesMPL PhilippinesMPL Philippines Season 14 Champions

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.
RegionLeagueQualification methodTeam nameIDGroup
Mekong RegionMCC MekongMCC Mekong S4 Champions

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.

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.