The MPL PH Grand Finals is in Full Swing

 Upsets and comebacks, left and right

Despite the weird weather, obnoxious traffic, and long lines to enter the venue, all you hardcore Mobile Legends fans showed your undying support for your favorite teams by being here with us in the MOA Music Hall. We’ve never seen the teams this pumped up before and we have you guys to thank for the quality of gameplay we got to witness from all our players (not to mention all the awesome clippable highlights we can’t wait to show you guys). In fact, we are so excited that we just needed to talk about these unforgettable and unbelievable moments so here’s our day one rundown of the most exciting moments of this historic day for mobile gaming.

OBS Gaming vs DD No Limit

OBS Gaming’s Z4pnu and Pakbet brought the house down by just walking across the stage to their seats. You cheers from OBS Gaming’s fans rocked the MOA music hall but DD No Limit didn’t even waver. The first game was super close thanks to DDNL’s Jana that kept Z4pnu’s Fanny in check for the entire game. But thanks to Dian’s clutch Akai plays, Z4pnu finally got to get some free AOE damage off, which eventually got OG the win.

The second game was a struggle for OG seeing as they couldn’t get any definitive wins during the clashes. Thanks to DDNL’s really good map control, even if DDNL loss the teamfight, OG couldn’t capitalize because there were no objectives to get. Eventually, because of a poor fight by OG during the late game, the death timers were enough for DDNL to destroy OG’s base.

We haven’t seen crowd favorite Pakbet go online in the past two games so when he got his best hero, Harley, the crowd went wild. OG really stepped up their game from having solo-player mindsets to finally working as a team and making good rotations, which resulted in a clear win for OG.

Invictus Godz vs OBS Gaming

We started game one with a few respect bans with OG banning Fanny and Martis and IG banning Lancelot and Helcurt. Jeffqt4ever being very aggressive chasing down IG Helena halfway across the map. IG sneaked a turtle to equalize the farm advantage OG had. After getting a few more picks, OG secured a turtle and widened the gold lead to 3k. OBS Gaming pushed their map advantage further by ambushing IG members that were trying to farm. A few minutes later OBS Gaming scored the nine-minute win thanks to some really good map rotations, utilizing the Lord to make the final push to IG’s base.

In the second game, both teams got their counter picks IG Vhen got his Fanny and OG Pakbet got his Harley, what we didn’t expect though was the Alice, last picked by IG Vmpire. OG Jeffqt4ever got ganked early, which forced him to flicker away to his tower leaving his Hanabi vulnerable. OG Jeffqt4ever and OG Z4pnu secured the turtle quickly furthering OG’s lead to 2k. OG continue to pressure every lane, leading to them destroying the first wave of IG’s towers and allowing them to constantly invade IG’s jungle. After a few small victories, OG went for the safe Lord with a 9k gold lead in their pockets. They eventually went for the last push along with the Lord securing their place in the Winners’ finals.

Aether Main vs DD Professional

Everyone’s been dying to see if DD Professional, the only team to give the seemingly untouchable Aether Main their single loss in the regular season, will be the ones to finally bring Aether Main down from their top spot. It was very disappointing to see DD Pheww’s Harley get picked off even before the minions got to lane due to careless pathing by him. Due to this error, DDPG had a shaky start until a miracle turtle steal by DD Dee’s Grock got DDPG back in the game. But a few errors like Yakou’s overconfidence while pushing towers gave Yellyhaze the opportunity to get some picks off with his Noumenon Blast. Even though DD Dee tried to keep his team in the game with his fearless Grock plays, the lanes rotations of AE Main were too quick for DDPG to counter leading to an eventual victory for AE Main.

DDPG were doing really well during the early game but because of a bit of indecision and miscommunication, no one tried to do Turtle despite DDPG getting a decisive teamfight win near the turtle. AE Main capitalized on this indecision and got two turtles in a row. Even though DDPG counter-picked Pein’s Fanny with a Cyclops, Diggie, and a Martis, AE Main baited out their key skills and played around their cooldowns while totally destroying them underneath their towers. A very convincing victory for AE Main to put an end to this heated rivalry… at least for now.

If we didn’t know any better, it felt like all these matches could be considered Grand Finals level because of how heated the players and the crowd were. We can barely wait to see what tomorrow’s Grand Finals will be like. You better be present whether you’re at home streaming or you’re with us here at MOA Music Hall. Games start tomorrow 10 a.m. Don’t miss your chance to witness this Legendary event.