Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Southeast Asia Cup, often called as MSC, is an annual esports tournament for the mobile MOBA game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang in Southeast Asia. The tournament consists of different teams from different countries in Southeast Asia such as Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore (Since 2017), Vietnam, and  Myanmar (Since 2018), Cambodia, and Laos (Since 2019).

History

MSC 2017 
The first season of "ML (Mobile Legends) Southeast Asia Cup" (MSC) started in September 1, 2017 and was held at Jakarta, Indonesia. It is a 3-day event with 8 teams from 5 countries: Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore, and Indonesia, and a total prize pool of $100,000. IDONOTSLEEP (IDNS), an e-sports team based in Thailand were crowned as the champions. MSC 2017 used a qualification system in determining the finalists.

MSC 2018 

The second year of MSC took off on July 27–29, 2018 and was held again at Jakarta, Indonesia with a similar prize pool of $100,000. MSC 2018 did not use a qualification system but started inviting teams from countries with established Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional Leagues (MPL). 10 teams were invited from 7 countries: Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. IDNS, a competing team, reported technical issues during the tournament where the game casts lsdasdasdasdwithout player input. Moonton put out a notice for a rematch but took it down and no rematch occurred.Regardless of the technical difficulties, Aether Main - a Philippines based team, won the championship.

MSC 2019 

The third year of MSC 2019 was held at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in the Philippines from June 19–23, 2019. There were a total of 12 teams from 9 countries in Southeast Asia. The nine countries that took part were Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam with a total prize pool of US$120,000.
 Onic Esports - a team based in Indonesia were crowned as champions after defeating fellow Indonesian based team Louvre Esports in the Grand Finals. This marked the 1st MSC Champions title for the Indonesia.

MSC 2020 
On 11 May 2020, Moonton announced that the 2020 Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Southeast Asia Cup was officially canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Moonton explained that due to international travel limitations, and local government regulations about COVID-19, the events were impossible to be held. Hereby, Moonton planned to conduct alternative esports events in each participating MSC country respectively.

MSC 2021 

The 2021 Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Southeast Asia Cup, would be held virtually from June 7–9, 2021 for the Group Stages, and from June 11–13, 2021 for the Playoffs. At the Grand Finals, two Philippines based teams, Blacklist International and Execration, reigned supreme and battled it out at for the title in the first best of 7 series ever in the history of Mobile Legends. The title went to Execration, winning $150,000 and gave the Philippines its 2nd MSC Champions title.

MSC 2022 

The 2022 Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Southeast Asia Cup was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from June 11 to 19, 2022. Twelve teams from nine countries participated in the championship with a total prize pool of $300,000. At the Grand Finals, RSG Philippines and RRQ Hoshi fought to win the entire championship. RSG Philippines swept RRQ Hoshi 4 to 0 and were deemed the Champions of the 2022 MSC (Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Southeast Asia Cup) and gave the Philippines its 3rd MSC Title, currently the most out of any country playing for MLBB.

Format 
Two teams from Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional Leagues (MPL) on different Southeast Asian countries are invited to MSC. For countries without MPL, local qualifiers are hosted. The tournaments start with a group stage where teams fight for the spot in the upper bracket through best of 3 round robin. Teams winning the best of 3 in the group stage get the spot for the upper bracket. The other two teams compete on play-ins where the winning team gets to the lower bracket and the losing team is eliminated. After the group stage is the tournament proper. Losing teams from the upper bracket are demoted to the lower bracket while losing teams from the lower bracket are eliminated. One finalist will come from each bracket and compete in the Grand Finals. From 2017 to 2019, the Grand Finals are played in best of 5, but since the 2021 version, it is played in best of 7.

Winners

Viewership 
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Southeast Asia Cup is streamed live to Facebook Gaming and YouTube.

Participating teams

MSC 2017 

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MSC 2018 

1 = Formerly known as Team NXL

2 = Formerly known as IDNS SG

3 = Formerly known as Team Saiyan

4 = Played as Aether MainReferences:

MSC 2019 

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MSC 2021 

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MSC 2022 

1 = Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
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MSC 2023 

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Results 

Notes

Performances by teams 

Notes
* Nation hosts.
1.  Includes result playing as Aether Main during 2018.
2.  Includes result playing as RRQ.O2 during 2018.

Performances by nations 

Notes
* Hosts.

References

External links 
 MSC Official Website

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang competitions
Esports tournaments