M4 World Championship: ECHO win after sweeping Blacklist Int.

The M4 World Championship crowned a new champion as ECHO made light work of Black International in the final. Here you can find our recap of the the Mobile Legends tournament, organized by Moonton.

Sixteen of the world’s best Mobile Legends teams traveled to Jakarta for the M4 World Championship, the final event of the 2022 competitive season.

Just like last year, 16 teams qualified for the event via a series of regional or national qualifiers, with $800,000 on the line.

The M3 world champions, Blacklist International, were the first team to reach the grand final after coming through the upper bracket, beating RRQ Hoshi in a nail-biting five-game series that shattered Mobile Legends’ viewership record. However, they were no match for their Filipino rival ECHO, who ran out 4-0 winners in a one-sided final.

Your M4 World Champions:
⁃Karltzy
⁃Bennyqt
⁃Yawi
⁃Sanford
⁃Sanji
⁃Kurttzy
⁃Jaypee
⁃Coach Tictac
⁃Coach Trebor

Welcome to the ECHO Express, we hope you enjoyed our M4 journey. 🚂

PS: Sorry wala pang edit, umiiyak pa yung socmed manager 😭 pic.twitter.com/57ITFw8C7Y

— ECHO (@echophilippines) January 15, 2023

With this victory, ECHO jungler Karl ‘KarlTzy’ Nepomuceno adds another world title to his CV, having previously won the M2 World Championship with Bren Esports.

The M4 World Championship was a resounding success and highlighted the growing popularity of mobile esports. The tournament had an average viewership of over 800,000 people, up from the M3 World Championship’s average viewership of 602,000 people, according to Esports Charts.

Below you can find all the information the M4 World Championship, including results and final standings. Missed a match? You can watch all the VODs of the event on MLBB’s YouTube channel.

Contents

• Results (knockout stage)
• Results (group stage)
• All teams

M4 World Championship: Final standings

Below you can find the prize pool distribution and the final standings.

M4 World Championship: Format and results

The M4 World Championship began with a round-robin group stage with four groups of four teams. Every match was played in a best-of-one format, with the top two advancing to the upper bracket and the bottom two to the lower bracket.

The first two rounds of the lower bracket featured a best-of-three format. All the other matches were best-of-five clashes, with the exception of the grand final, which was played in a best-of-seven format.

Local fans were able to watch the matches at the Bali United Studio during the group stage and at the Tennis Indoor Stadium Senayan during the knockout stages.

Knockout stage (January 7-15)

Note: WIB stands for Western Indonesian Time (GMT +7)

Day 9: January 15

Day 1: January 7

Day 2: January 8

Day 3: January 9

Day 4: January 10

Day 5: January 11

Day 6: January 12

Day 7: January 13

Day 8: January 14

Group Stage (January 1-4)

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Day 1: January 1

Day 2: January 2

Day 3: January 3

Day 4: January 4

M4 World Championship: All qualified teams

The M4 World Championship will feature 16 teams from different regions. The CIS will not have any representatives at the event, while Myanmar and Mekong make an appearance after missing last year’s tournament.