MPL Malaysia Season 10 — the victory of Team HAQ and the league’s viewership record

Loading

October 16 marked the end of the tenth season of MPL Malaysia, one of the main regional MPL leagues for the mobile game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. The anniversary season was marked by record Hours Watched and Peak Viewers, with the latter growing by almost 100K compared to the previous championship. The editors of Esports Charts are overviewing the results of the event.

Tournament results

MPL Malaysia Season 10 was held in two stages. First, the participants played a series of round-robin matches in the group stage and determined the seeding in the playoffs, after which the champion of the tournament was determined in the double-elimination playoffs bracket.

Team HAQ took the second spot in Group A and, together with TODAK, started the playoff stage from the upper bracket. In the very first round, the future champions from HAQ lost to Orange Esports and dropped to the lower bracket. There it defeated RED Esports MY, RSG Malaysia, and Orange Esports one by one, and in the decisive match they defeated TODAK.

Both finalists will compete at the M4 World Championship, which will be held on January 1-15, 2023 in Jakarta. There, the world’s best teams will compete for a prize fund of $800K.

Viewership statistics

The matches of MPL Malaysia Season 10 matches have generated over 6.1M Hours Watched, and gathered 29.1K Average Viewers and 232.5K Peak Viewers. The peak value was recorded during the grand final between TODAK and Team HAQ. It was the only match that gathered over 200K viewers. The second most popular was the match between TODAK and Homebois in the first round of the playoffs, which gathered almost 126K Peak Viewers.

TODAK became the most watched team of the tournament, generating over 1.9M Hours Watched. Following it is Team HAQ, which lagged behind TODAK by about 15% in terms of Hours Watched. At the same time, it is worth noting that TODAK played only three series in the playoffs, while Team HAQ played as many as five due to having moved to the lower bracket.

Malaysian became the main broadcast language of MPL Malaysia, it accounted for 86.4% of the total Hours Watched and attracted more than 194.8K Peak Viewers (this is the third-best indicator for the Bahasa Malay language across all esports tournaments). The second most popular was English, being responsible for 13% of the total HW and 37.6K Peak Viewers.

YouTube was the most popular platform for MPL Malaysia Season 10, accounting for almost 54% of total Hours Watched. The rest was divided more or less equally between Facebook and TikTok. The most popular channels among viewers were MLBB eSports and Mobile Legends on YouTube, mplmy.official on Facebook, and MPLMY on TikTok.

  Most popular MPL Malaysia events  

Starting from the seventh season (when the Malaysian league became separate from the Singapore league) the current tournament has set records in terms of total Hours Watched and Peak Viewers. If during MPL MY Season 7 the total Hours Watched amounted to 3.7M, then by the tenth season this figure increased by 65%. In turn, the number of Peak Viewers for this period has doubled.

The ninth tournament of the series was the previous holder of records for HW and PV. At the same time, MPL MY Season 8 is still the leader by Average Viewers, having gathered 31.7K of these.

***

Earlier we summarized the results of the seasons in Cambodia and Singapore. You can read more about this here. Soon, we will publish the final statistics for the MPL seasons in Indonesia and the Philippines.