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The 2023 Philippine KOL Summer Brawl, commonly referred to as the Philippine KOL Summer Brawl Season 1 and PKSB S1, was the first edition of the Philippine KOL Summer Brawl, an Esports tournament for the mobile game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.

Philippine KOL Summer Brawl S1

2023
Tournament information
Sport	Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
Dates	August 5–10, 2023
Administrator	Moonton Mineski Philippines
Tournament format(s)	Group stage Single Round Robin Format Playoffs Double Elimination Format
Host(s)	Philippines
Venue(s)	Online Event (Group Stage) SM Mall of Asia (Semifinals and Grand Finals)
Teams	16
Purse	$6,500
Final positions
Champions	Positibo Gang
1st runners-up	Team Thirdy & Friends
2nd runners-up	Team Chrissy & SE Vivabois
MVP	Silvers Rayleigh

Background

the Philippine KOL Summer Brawl is the first edition of the games to be held in the Philippines.

Venue

The Philippine KOL Summer Brawl was announced is only to be held in Metro Manila.

SM Mall of Asia, venue for the Semifinals & Grand Finals on August 10th

Alongside Moonton, the country's Mineski Philippines will organize the event. Online Event was host the group stage of PKSB S1. On the other hand, the semifinals, exhibition match and grand finals is to be held at the SM Mall of Asia in Pasay. The redeem codes of free summer skins for the event was started on August 10.

Qualified Teams

Qualifiers

Region	League	Qualification method	Team name	ID	Group
Philippines	PKSB Draw Pick	Draw Pick	Team Thirdy & Friends	Thirdy	A
		Draw Pick	SE Vivabois	SEV	C
Facebook	PKSB Qualifiers	Qualifiers	Positibo Gang	POS	B
		Qualifiers	Team Chrissy	TC	D
YouTube	YT Qualifiers	YouTube Qualifiers	Team Elgin	ELGIN	A
		YouTube Qualifiers	BOBONG TEAM	BOB	D
MLBB Content Creators	MLBB CC Qualifiers	MLBB PH Community Pick	TURKZ	TUR	B
		MLBB PH Community Pick	SHAIRAX	SHRX	C
Philippines	PKSB Wild Card Qualifiers	PKSB Wild Card Qualifying Team	CHACHA PEGA International	PEGA	C
		PKSB Wild Card Qualifying Team	Team SUKARAP	SUKAR	D
TikTok	TikTok MLBB CC Qualifiers	TikTok Content Creator Qualifying Team	SUNGIT Is Back	SUN	B
		TikTok Wild Card Qualifying Team	Saiji Team	SAIJI	C
Philippines	YouTube Wild Card Qualifiers	YouTube Wild Card Qualifying Team	CHELSHEESH	CHEL	D
		YouTube Wild Card Qualifying Team	PAPI PAPI POOM	PAPI	B
Content Creator	PKSB Wild Card Qualifiers	TikTok Qualifying Team	Crows Zero	CROWS	A
		TikTok Qualifying Team	Diamonds Collector	DIA	A

Format

Group stage: August 5–8, 2023

• 16 teams qualified for the event are split into four groups of 4 teams each.
• All matches in the group stage are played in a Bo1 series.
• The top one team per group qualified for the Semifinals.
• The two teams per group qualified for the Tiebreaker Match.

Exhibition Match, Semifinals & Grand Finals: August 10, 2023

• Four teams play in a double-elimination tournament.
• Seven teams begin in the Semifinals & Exhibition Match.
• The Grand Finals will be a Bo3 series between the Semifinalist.

Group Stage

The group stages started on August 5 and conclude on August 8. All games in the group stage will be in a Bo1 format. There will be 2-3 teams are eliminated at the end of group stages, but the two teams in each group shall be qualified for the tiebreaker match, while the tiebreaker shall be qualified for the Semifinals.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Team Thirdy & Friends (Q)	3	3	0	3	2	+1	6	Qualified for Semifinals
2	Diamonds Collector	3	2	1	2	3	−1	5	Eliminated from the Summer Brawl
3	Crows Zero	3	1	2	4	1	+3	4
4	Team Elgin	3	0	3	0	3	−3	3

Source:
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Positibo Gang (Q)	3	3	0	3	2	+1	6	Qualified for Semifinals
2	Sungit Is Back	3	1	2	2	3	−1	4	Eliminated from the Summer Brawl
3	PAPI PAPI POOM	3	1	2	4	1	+3	4
4	TURKZ	3	1	2	0	3	−3	4

Source:
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	SE Vivabois (Q)	3	3	0	3	2	+1	6	Qualified for Semifinals
2	Saiji Team	3	2	1	2	3	−1	5	Eliminated from the Summer Brawl
3	SHAIRAX	3	1	2	4	1	+3	4
4	CHACHA PEGA International	3	0	3	0	3	−3	3

Source:
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Team Chrissy (Q)	3	2	1	3	2	+1	5	Qualified for Tiebreaker Match
2	Team SUKARAP (Q)	3	2	1	2	3	−1	5
3	CHELSHEESH	3	1	2	4	1	+3	4	Eliminated from the Summer Brawl
4	BOBONG TEAM	3	1	2	0	3	−3	4

Source:
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Tiebreaker

A three-way tie emerged between Team Chrissy and Team SUKARAP each having a 2–1 win-loss standing. With this, three additional tiebreaker games were played after the final group stage game was held to determine the teams that will make the semifinals. These tiebreaker matches were counted in the standings as per stage.

Group D Tiebreaker Match	Team 1	Result		Team 2
1	TC	1	0	SUKAR
2	TC	2	0	SUKAR

Bracket

Tiebreaker Match

Semifinals (Best-of-3)

Grand Finals (Best-of-3)

A1

Team Thirdy & Friends

2

D1

Team Chrissy

0

D1

Team Chrissy

2

D2

Team SUKARAP

0

A1

Team Thirdy & Friends

0

B1

Positibo Gang

2

B1

Positibo Gang

2

Exhibition Match

C1

SE Vivabois

0

G1

Girls Power

15

G2

Team Choox

28

(G) Guest Team

Marketing

Sponsors

The Philippine KOL Summer Brawl Season 1 oversees philippine partners from participating the event to get the chance to stream the tournament.

Company name	Classification	Country/region of partnership
Beyond The Clouds	Official MLBB Event	Philippines
MLBB Philippine Community	Presenting Partner
SM Mall Of Asia	Venue Partner

Theme Song

On August 10, 2023, the song "Touch The Sky" & "Dare to be Great" from Beyond The Clouds event and M4 was released as the official song of the tournament

MVP of the Day

MVP	Player	Ref.	Hero
August 5 (Group A)	Thirdy & Haymee (Team Thirdy & Friends) Cherizawa (Crows Zero) HEEnrry SEUNG & Law. (Diamonds Collector)		Claude, Edith & Moskov Chang'e Edith & YVE
August 6 (Group B)	NiborRr & LearnFromOkata (Positibo Gang) Ver. (TURKZ) Zago (SUNGIT Is Back)		Arlott, Uranus & Lancelot Bruno KHUFRA
August 7 (Group C)	Goddess & Wawayyy (SE Vivabois) Hanji. (SHAIRAX) Nomed & Patty (SAIJI TEAM)		Novaria, KHUFRA & Lapu-Lapu Ling Beatrix & Franco
August 8 (Group D)	LOUIE., ROASA & SALEM (Team Chrissy) XEMY XEMY. (BOBONG TEAM) KYMCHI (Team SUKARAP) CHELSHEESH (CHELSHEESH)		Arlott, Beatrix & Ling Lesley Lunox Franco

Results

Place	Team	Prize Pool
Champions	Positibo Gang	$3,000
Runner-up	Team Thirdy & Friends	$2,000
3rd Place	Team Chrissy	$750
4th Place	SE Vivabois	$750
5th - 6th	CHELSHEESH	did not qualify
	Team SUKARAP
7th - 8th	SAIJI TEAM	did not qualify
	CHACHA PEGA International
9th - 12th	SHAIRAX	did not qualify
	TURKZ
	PAPI PAPI POOM
	SUNGIT Is Back
13th - 16th	Crows Zero	did not qualify
	Diamonds Collector
	Team Elgin
	BOBONG TEAM