On December 17, the 5th MLBB World Finals (hereinafter referred to as "M5") came to an end at the Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila, Philippines. After 7 fierce battles with the ONIC team from Indonesia, AP Bren defeated ONIC with a score of 4:3 and won the M5 championship, which is also the second time that APren has reached the MLBB World Finals and become the first "double champion" in the history of the event.
Before the start of the finals, the Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports of Malaysia, YB Adam Adli, and Mu Tong officially announced that the next MLBB World Finals will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The M5 Grand Finals hosted more than 6,000 MLBB fans from all over the world. Online, M5 broadcast live streams in 17 languages, presenting an international esports event to the global esports audience.
According to statistics from Esports Charts, a third-party authoritative data platform, M5 event viewership data has reached a new high, with the peak viewing users (PCU) exceeding 5.06 million, which has broken the record of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang e-sports events, and at the same time, M5 has also become the most popular global mobile e-sports event in 2023. So far, in the top 5 of the world's all-time esports viewing rankings, MLBB events occupy two places.
This year's M5 World Finals will set up a direct invitation area and a wild card area, covering nearly 50 countries and regions around the world, including China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Myanmar, Turkey, Mongolia, and North America, Latin America, the Middle East & North Africa, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, South Asia and the Mekong region. This is also the first time that a Chinese team has joined the MLBB global e-sports competition system, and MLBB e-sports has accelerated the globalization process.