MPL Philippines Season 11

Following the conclusion of MPL Philippines Season 10, offseason changes began with the eight franchise teams of MPL Philippines to prepare for Season 11.

Following the easing of restrictions on face-to-face activities in the Philippines, MPL Philippines Season 10 became the first season to be in an all-offline tournament format with sold-out venues and crowds. After a soft-MPL Philippines Season 9 test, MPL Philippines Season 10 and 11 became the first three tournament since the COVID-19 pandemic to be fully opened to the public.

In the official MPL Philippines Season 11 Facebook page, it was announced that the Regular Season will be held at the Shooting Gallery Studios in Makati City's Central Business District.[15]

Similar to its preceding seasons, MPL Philippines Season 11 will follow the Double Round-robin tournament format during the regular season. The double round-robin tournament is a system of matches where competing teams will face each other twice. With eight teams participating, a total of fourteen games will be played. Following the regular season, the playoffs will follow. The playoffs for MPL Philippines Season 11 will follow a Double-elimination tournament. Seeds 1 and 2 will be slated in the Upper-brackets Semifinals while Seeds 3 to 6 will be facing each other in the Quarterfinals to determine the teams who will contest Seeds 1 and 2. During MPL Philippines Season 8, Seeds 3 to 6 were seeded at their respective place, however, during the course of MPL Philippines Season 9, the first-seeded team were able to readjust the seeding positions for each play-in tournament team.[16]

Stage points are distributed accordingly throughout the eight teams. These points will be based on their match performances:

• A team will receive 3 points if they win a 2-0 match against their opponent. The opposing team will receive 0 points.
• A team will receive 2 points if they win a 2-1 match against their opponent. The opposing team will receive 1 point.

No.	Name	Team	KDA
1	Marco "SUPER MARCO" Requitano	Bren Esports	6.22
2	( 2) Frince "Super Frince" Ramirez	ONIC Philippines	6.22
3	Frederic Benedict "Bennyqt" Gonzales	ECHO Philippines	6.04
4	Michael Angelo "KyleTzy" Sayson	Bren Esports	5.84
5	( 3) Kenneth Carl "Yue" Tadeo	Blacklist International	5.43

Source:[17]

Following a committee decision to allow MDL players and MPL players be transferred to each league,[18] Blacklist International Gold Lane Archer "ARCHER" Perez will be relegated to the MDL and Southeast Asian Games Gold Medalist Lee "Owl" Gonzales will be transferred to the official roster.[19]

Through the caster's announcement, RSG Slate Philippines will be sending their rookie talent Kouzen to MDL Philippines in exchange for Season 9 addition John "1RRAD" Abarquez.[20]

Noted as one of the oldest rivalries in the entire league, Blacklist International was slated to face-off Smart Omega in the first round of elimination.[26][27][28] Blacklist International were able to sweep Smart Omega in the first round of the playoffs that will match the team against Bren Esports in the Upper Bracket Quarterfinals.

The second match will follow with RSG Philippines versus ONIC Philippines.[29] With both teams facing each other in Season 10 where RSG Philippines swept the yellow porcupines, one team will be eliminated from this match.[30] RSG Philippines were able to sweep the former M3 runners-up to advance to face ECHO Philippines.[31]

Blacklist International faces off the former M2 World Champions of Bren Esports. As the first seed, Bren finished the regular season with 11 wins and 3 losses, seeding them Number 1 in the League, the first time they've been seeded no. 1 since Season 7. Blacklist International previously defeated Smart Omega to hopefully claim their spot in the upcoming MSC Cup in Cambodia.[32] Despite many doubts, Blacklist International were able to fend off a possible reverse sweep from the Hive and defeated Bren Esports in four games, giving them a closer edge to the grand finals where they potentially can repeat as champions.[33]

Following both teams' defeats in the Upper Bracket Semifinals to Blacklist International and RSG Slate Philippines, Bren Esports and ECHO Philippines were slated to face each other in the Lower Bracket Finals. Despite the momentum comeback in Game No. 2, ECHO Philippines will eliminate Bren Esports' further playoff contention and will deny them the chance to move on further and represent the country in MSC.

With both play-in teams going to the upper-bracket finals, RSG Slate Philippines and Blacklist International is set to face-off in a Best of 5 series in the upper-bracket. Despite the hopes of a reverse sweep, Blacklist International will return to MSC since 2021 and is set to repeat their title, defeating RSG Slate Philippines in four games.

Following RSG's defeat in the Upper-Bracket Finals, RSG Slate Philippines and ECHO Philippines will have a rematch in the Lower Bracket Semifinals. With the efforts of forcing Game No. 5 before the Grand Finals, ECHO Philippines has set its course to MSC 2023 following the 3-2 victory over RSG Slate PH, denying RSG Slate their trip to MSC and a chance to reclaim their title as MSC champions. ECHO and Blacklist International will be facing each other in the Grand Finals for the second time in two-consecutive seasons.

With the victory over RSG Slate Philippines, ECHO Philippines will have their third rematch against Blacklist International. Previously, Blacklist defeated ECHO in the grand finals of MPL Philippines Season 10 in six games.[34] In M4, ECHO sweeped Blacklist International who were the reigning MLBB M3 World Champions at the time. However, Blacklist International will suffer another 4-0 lost to ECHO Philippines.[35] This will be ECHO Philippines' first title under the "ECHO Philippines" branding after being known as AURA Philippines during Season 6 to 7 before rebranding to the current team name in Season 8.[36]

MPL Philippines Season 11's Grand Finals will become the first Grand Finals sweep by any team in MPL Philippines history.

The First edition of the special fan awards were held after the Lower Bracket Finals. The awarded awards are listed:

• Freshest Face of the Season
• Most Fashionable Player Award
• Best Content Creator
• Best Sportsmanship Award
• Most Improved Team of the Season
• 3x Most Epic/Creative Gameplay Awards

Following its introduction in Season 10, a seasonal inclusion of players will be done per season. Blacklist International's Edward Jay "EDWARD" Dapadap was announced as the new member of the Hall of Legends.[37]