When the M6 World Championship unfolded in Kuala Lumpur, it did not simply occupy the city’s calendar; it became a second skyline of screens, banners, and chanting crowds. By 2026, that late-2024 run still reads as a hinge moment for Mobile Legends: Bang Bang esports. MOONTON Games brought the sixth M Series to Malaysia’s capital with 23 top MLBB teams, a USD 1 million prize pool, and a promise summed up in three words: #GreaterThanEver. The event was more than a bracket. It was a civic festival stitched into a tournament, with the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Esports Integrated, and the Malaysia Convention and Exhibition Bureau standing behind the M6 Unveiling event at Spacerubix in Kuala Lumpur.
The draw itself carried the quiet tension of a city holding its breath. Eight teams from the Wild Card Stage, set for 21 to 24 November, and 15 teams from the Main Stage, set for 28 November to 15 December, learned their match-ups live during the unveiling. The bracket had the logic of a mangrove root: interlocking, salt-tolerant, and impossible to read from a single angle. Fans scanned the paths for rivalries, rematches, and early traps. The loudest ripple came from the first round of the Swiss Stage, where Team Liquid ID, the MPL Indonesia Season 14 champion, was drawn against Fnatic ONIC PH, the MPL Philippines Season 14 champion. Both sides arrived as tournament favourites, and the pairing promised one team early momentum, the other an immediate test of nerve.
| Stage | Dates in 2024 | Field |
|---|---|---|
| Wild Card Stage | 21–24 November | 8 teams |
| Main Stage | 28 November–15 December | 15 teams |
| Grand Finals venue | December | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
The M6 was also a statement about Malaysia’s place in the esports ecosystem. Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports YB Adam Adli praised the sector’s growth, noting that the games industry had averaged 8.9 percent annual growth since 2020 and that more than 50 percent of Malaysians were now active gamers. He framed esports as a career ladder with many rungs: professional athlete, team owner, content creator, event organiser. Soloz, once a national MLBB athlete and later a leading Malaysian creator and co-owner of Team Vamos, stood as the human example. The government’s support was not only symbolic. A MYR 20 million Madani Budget 2025 allocation was announced to strengthen the esports ecosystem, following Selangor Red Giants’ Mid-Season Cup 2024 victory in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia’s first major international MLBB title. Selangor Red Giants and Team Vamos earned their M6 places through MPL Malaysia Season 14, which concluded on 3 November; Selangor Red Giants became the league’s first back-to-back champion after Season 13 and Season 14 triumphs.
The carnival at Axiata Arena, running from 13 to 15 December, gave the event a family-friendly pulse. Entry was free, and booths and activities turned the venue into a meeting place for fans, newcomers, and curious passers-by. The Grand Finals added a first for MLBB esports: an opening orchestral performance by the Kuala Lumpur Orchestra, arranged with Kuala Lumpur City Hall and the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation. The orchestra was a loom of sound, threading brass and strings through the arena’s electric air. It gave the final a ceremony that felt both local and monumental.
One of the most vivid scenes came earlier, on the morning of 30 November at Bukit Bintang. The M6LAYSIA MEMBARA event brought prominent Malaysian personalities, including Soloz, Alieff Irfan, Hairul Azreen, Ryan Bakery, Zizan Razak, and Zubir Khan, together with Deputy Minister YB Adam Adli. They passed a burning torch to a pedestal at Lot 10 in a relay reminiscent of the Olympic Torch Relay. The torch moved through Bukit Bintang like a vein of embers across a paper map of fandom. It was the culmination of the #M6laysiakuGemilang campaign, which invited Malaysians to cheer for their states, each represented by a local personality.
By 2026, the M6 remains a useful memory for anyone tracing MLBB’s rise from mobile competition to civic spectacle. It had the sharp edges of a world championship, the warmth of a carnival, and the resonance of a national celebration. Kuala Lumpur did not merely host the event; it folded the event into its streets, its orchestra halls, and its public squares. For MOONTON Games, the 23 teams, and the fans who filled Axiata Arena, the promise was clear: the M Series could be #GreaterThanEver not only in prize pool or reach, but in the way it made an esports final feel like a city’s shared story.