The awaited Mid Season Cup 2025 x Esports World Cup in Riyadh is fast approaching as each regional tournaments are starting for Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. With a prize pool of 3 Million USD last year for the participants, we’ll most likely to have the same range, if not bigger, for the players to play for.
MSC’s First Year in Riyadh
Last year, the unexpected happened as Selangor Red Giants, the dark horse of the tournament, won against Falcons AP.Bren, the favorites to win the entire thing. The Grand Finals went the distance as they’ve played out the entire Best of 7 series. This is the first international title Malaysia has won since the start of official tournaments of MLBB, against the current world champions that time no less. Their wonder kid in the jungle role, Sekys, won the Finals MVP along with $50,000.
MSC 2025 Schedule & Tournament Format
What we know so far is that there will be a Wild Card stage to determine one team to move to the Main Stage to compete for the title. MSC 2025 x EWC is also set to begin in July 2025 and possibly end at the first week of August of 2025.
Stay tuned for the official release on tournament rules from Moonton Games.
MSC 2025 Participating Teams
Moonton has recently announced their slot distributions among the participants for MSC x EWC 2025. Here are the slot allocations for the stages:
MSC Wildcard Slot Allocation
- China 1 – (China Qualifier)
- EECA 1 – (MCC S5)
- Japan 1 – (Japan Qualifier)
- LATAM 1 – (MPL LATAM S3)
- MEKONG 1 – (M Challenge Cup S5)
- MENA 1 – (MPL MENA S7)
- Mongolia 1 – (Mongolia Qualifier)
- Vietnam 1 – (VMC 2025 Spring)
MSC Main Stage Slot Allocation
- Indonesia 2 – (MPL ID S15)
- Philippines 2 – (MPL PH S15)
- Malaysia 2 – (MPL MY S15)
- Cambodia 1 – (MPL KH S8)
- China 1 – (China Qualifier)
- EECA 1 – (MCC S5)
- LATAM 1 – (MPL LATAM S3)
- MENA 1 – (MPL MENA S7)
- Myanmar 1 – (MSL MM S1)
- NA 1 – (NACT 2025 Spring)
- Singapore 1- (MPL SG S9)
- Türkiye 1 – (MTC S5)
- Wild Card 1
These slots are determined by each region’s official regional tournaments. These are mainly called Mobile Legends Bang Bang Professional League for most regions and other special qualifiers for emerging markets around the world. Note-worthy comeback in the world stage of MLBB is Japan as they’ve last competed in M2 World Championship back in 2020, with 10s Gaming Frost representing them. Another region to mention is Vietnam having their own qualifiers, separating them from the MEKONG region since they’ve dominated almost all qualifiers for that region.
We’ll be updating this as soon as each regional qualifiers are determined.
