Filled With Athletes With Achievements, The Indonesian MLBB National Team Deserves To Bring Home Gold At The 2021 SEA Games

The MLBB matches at the 2021 SEA Games will start on 18 May. (Photo: PBESI Instagram)

JAKARTA – Three branches of Esports at the 2021 SEA Games have been held. The first match that was held on Friday, May 13 was the Free Fire event, where Indonesia took home two medals, namely gold and silver.

Unlike the fate of Free Fire, the FIFA Online 4 team has not succeeded in bringing a medal to Indonesia. As for the PUBG Mobile Solo number, Alan, managed to bring home Silver.

Wednesday, May 18, it will be the turn of the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) team to compete for the champion at the 31st SEA Games which will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam.

The MLBB match at the 2021 SEA Games is divided into two rounds, namely the Group Stage and the Final Stage.

The group phase will start on 18-19 May 2022, while the final phase will be held on 20 May 2022. In the group stage, there are seven countries that will compete, namely Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Laos.

Team Sharing

Based on the seven teams, then divided into two groups. From the results of the MLBB Drawing that was carried out some time ago, the following is a list.

Group A: Philippines, Malaysia, Laos, Myanmar

Group B: Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore

Match Format

In the Group Stage phase, MLBB matches will use the Best of Two (BO2) format. This means that all teams will compete twice in this phase.

If they win 2-0, the winner will get 3 points. If the score is 1-1, then each team will get 1 point. Whereas if you lose 0-2 then get 0 points.

Winners and runners up in the Group Stage, will qualify for the play-offs (Final Stage). In this round, the game format will use the Best of Three (BO3) mechanism.

Specifically for the MLBB SEA Games Grand Finals, the BO5 (best-of-five) system will be used. This means that whoever gets 3 wins first wins.

Teams that qualify for the Final Stage are ranked 1 and 2 in the group phase. The team that wins Groups A and B will advance to the Upper Bracket and face each other.

Meanwhile, the teams that are runners-up in Groups A and B will enter the Lower Bracket and will face each other.

Winners in the Lower Bracket finals will enter the grand finals and have the opportunity to compete for gold and silver. While the losers, they headed for the bronze medal.

MLBB roster

The roster of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) for the Indonesian National Team at the 2021 SEA Games is as follows.

Albert Neilsen Iskandar (RRQ Alberttt) Gilang (Onic Sanz) Calvin Winata (Onic CW) Nicky Fernando Pontonuwu (Onic Kiboy) Calvin (RRQ Vyn) Rivaldi Fatah (RRQ R7) Ihsan Besari Kusudana (Evos Luminaire)

Quoting from Esport ID, from the Roster of MLBB players at the 2021 SEA Games, each of them are outstanding athletes.

RRQ Vyn for example, the former captain of RRQ Hoshi is the pillar behind the neat gameplay of the King's troops for seasons.

Meanwhile, RRQ Albert, became a player to be feared. How not, he has twice won the title of 1st Team Jungler in MPL S7 and S8, Albert has shown his skills and mentality in MPL Indonesia even though he is still young.

No less, ONIC Kiboy has also been the 1st Team Roamer in MDL season 2. This season, he is the owner of the fifth most assists with 116 assists.

Not only that, other players also have their respective achievements. From the track record of each athlete, Indonesia is optimistic to bring home Gold.

Indonesian National Team Match Schedule for the first day

On the first day of the Group Stage (16 May), Indonesia will compete twice. The first match was with Vietnam and the second match was with Singapore.

For you fans of the Moba game, you can see the excitement of the national team athletes competing for gold at the 2021 SEA Games through the MPL ID YouTube channel.