For years, the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Mid-Season Cup has been a stage where the Philippines almost always found itself playing for a championship—or at the very least, standing on the podium.
That streak came to a halt in Paris as the country’s lone representative in MSC 2026, Team Falcons PH saw its campaign end with a fourth-place finish after falling short in both the semifinals and the third-place match.
It marks the first time since 2019 that no Philippine team finished on the tournament podium. The Filipinos came within one game of reaching the grand finals after pushing Myanmar’s Yangon Galacticos to a winner-take-all Game 5 in the semifinals.
The defeat denied the Philippines another appearance in the MSC Grand Finals and simultaneously sent Yangon Galacticos to its first international championship match since the M2 World Championship in 2021.
Team Falcons PH still had one more opportunity to leave Paris with a medal, but Indonesia’s ONIC ID proved too much to handle.
The Indonesians completed a convincing 3-0 sweep in the battle for third place, leaving the Filipino squad to settle for fourth overall.
While the result fell short of the country’s lofty standards, Team Falcons PH remained one of the tournament’s strongest teams after surviving a highly competitive field just to reach the final weekend of the MSC.
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Esports World Cup 2026 – Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Mid Season Cup | Match Result – 1 August 2026
3rd Place
ONIC 3
️ 0 Team Falcons PH
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The tournament also signaled a changing of the guard on the international stage as Team Spirit, representing Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA), completed one of the biggest breakthroughs in Mobile Legends history by defeating Yangon Galacticos, 4-3, in a thrilling seven-game grand finals to become the first champion from outside Southeast Asia.
Their victory finally ended Southeast Asia’s dominance of the MSC. Since the tournament’s inaugural edition in 2017, every champion had come from either the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, or Thailand, making Team Spirit’s triumph a historic breakthrough for the global MLBB scene.
The 2026 edition also underscored the growing parity in international competition. Defending MSC champions Team Liquid Philippines and 2024 champions Selangor Red Giants were both eliminated in the group stage, while emerging regions continued to challenge the traditional powerhouses throughout the tournament.
For the Philippines, the fourth-place finish also snapped a remarkable streak of grand final appearances. After the last all-Indonesian MSC final in 2019, Filipino teams reached every championship series—Execration and Blacklist International contested an all-PH final in 2021, RSG Philippines won the title in 2022, Blacklist International finished runner-up to ONIC Esports in 2023, and Team Falcons PH claimed second place behind Selangor Red Giants in 2024.
Although this year’s campaign ended without a medal, Team Falcons PH once again proved it belonged among the world’s elite.
Reaching the tournament’s final four in an increasingly competitive international field showed that while the Philippines may have relinquished its place atop the podium this time, it remains one of Mobile Legends’ premier regions heading into the next global championship.
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