Esports in 2024 is as popular as ever, with the first-ever Esports World Cup culminating last August. Now that 2025 is just a few days away, some esports titles like Mobile Legends Bang Bang have started to release their 2025 esports roadmap.
Released during the M6 Summit in Malaysia earlier this month, Mobile Legends Bang Bang publisher and developer Moonton has announced that the esports title will start the new year with the Snapdragon Pro Series Challenge Season 6.
The premiere MLBB Pro League, or MPL, will start in March and the Mid-Season Cup will usher the second part of the MPL later on this year.
click to enlargeInterestingly, the mobile MOBA game has no tournament breaks throughout 2025, indicating that the game's esports scene is thriving. However, teams will have to take the roadmap into consideration when planning around drafting new team members and practicing around the ever-updating game meta.
The Snapdragon tournaments will take most of the third-party tournaments for Mobile Legends this year. This tournament series from ESL and Qualcomm will cover multiple mobile game titles across different regions.
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One major change for MLBB's 2025 esports roadmap is that it will be shifting its first-party tournaments to a later schedule in 2025. For example, the recent M6 World Championships and its previous iterations were always held in December. In 2025, teams and players will not attend M7 until January 2026.
The MPL and MSC tournaments are also shifted into later schedules, possibly due to Moonton making way for more third-party tournaments.
Moonton has slowly expanded the covered regions that can participate in their own regional MPL tournaments. Here are all the countries and regions that have MPL tournaments and can now qualify for the M7 World Tournament in January 2026:
- Philippines
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
- Singapore
- Cambodia
- LATAM
- MENA
While teams from CIS, North America, Turkey, and Myanmar do not have their own regional MPL tournaments, they were still able to attend the M6 World Cup and may do so again for M7 unless Moonton updates its tournament guidelines.
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