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Have
you watched the exciting and highly thrilling conclusion of the second season
of Mobile Legends Bang Bang Professional League Philippines on television a few
months ago? If you haven't, then you would have missed how Cignal Ultra made a
stunning upset in the grand finals against tournament favorite Bren eSports to
win the said season. Well, the good news is that you can experience the action
all over again as the first and largest professional gaming league in the
country for players of the popular mobile hit returns for its third season and
it starts in just a few weeks from now.
Season
2 champion Cignal Ultra and 1st runner-up Bren eSports will return to the local
MLBBPL stage in a weekly tournament series that features an intriguing cash
prize pool of US$100,000. The top players from the league's previous season as
well as several teams that have weathered the storm in the open and main
qualifying stages are also slated to compete in the series with the grand cash
prize of US$25,000 coming from the pool at stake and the honor of representing
the country in the MLBB Southeast Asia Cup 2019 which will take place in the
Philippines following the conclusion of MLBBPL-PH's third season.
Hoping
to make waves in the Philippine Mobile Legends stage this year along with Cignal
Ultra and Bren eSports are the following:
DIRECT INVITES
SG
Dragons (formerly Finesse Solid)
Evos
PH (formerly SXC Imba)
Aether
Atlas (formerly Aether Main)
Execration
FROM THE QUALIFIERS
No
Limit
Finesse
Phoenix
ArkAngel
(formerly ArkAngel Wicked Minds)
ArkAngel
Ownage
Here's
the breakdown of what's at stake at the end of the MLBB Professional League
Philippines season 3 in terms of cash prizes:
Champion
- US$25,000
1st
Runner-Up - US$13,000
2nd
Runner-Up - US$6,000
3rd
Runner-Up - US$4,000
4th
and 5th Runners-Up - US$2,000 each
6th
and 7th Runners-Up - US$1,000 each
Throughout
the course of the season which will start on March 23, 2019, the teams participating
and competing in the group stages will receive salaries each week. In addition
to the cash prizes at stake in the finals and the spots for the MLBB SEA Cup
2019 belonging to the top two teams of the season, one player who proves to be
legendary among all competitors will receive the Regular Season MVP award
complemented with a hefty cash prize.
The
regular season matches for Season 3 of the MLBB Professional League Philippines
will commence until the 5th of May and all the matches will be streamed live on
the league's exclusive online broadcast partner Facebook Gaming. The commencement
of the league's season would not be possible without the support of its Legend
sponsor Smart Communications and Epic sponsor Game.ly with Dracer and HyperX
slated to affirm their commitment to the league's enduring efforts and strides.
