Esports Reach Mobile Devices with the Game ‘Mobile Legends’

Start of the Mobile Legends esports campaign in Malaysia (source)

Some people are just too good at touching pieces of glass repeatedly. It’s reached a point where the “sports” category, which I bet our ancestors never dreamt would be used like this, have reached the highly dynamic glass-touching activity that is mobile games. Previously, Esports already had unseen records of viewership with over 117 million people tuning into an Esports tournament for League of Legends. But now things are a-changing or a-progressing as the same frenzy that came attached to Fortnite, Rocket League, League of Legends, among others, has started to seep into the mobile paradigm.

In East Asia, especially in India, Indonesia and Malaysia, people are prone to buy mobile phones instead of computers, and use them to fulfil their daily needs that we in the west use computers for. It is no surprise then that a very popular game such as League of Legends has been cloned for these people. The very popular alternative game Mobile Legends is a version of League of Legends that was redesigned for mobile devices.

And now, it was so successfully done that in the past few months it’s been gaining enormous track in the Eastern Asian communities, and also in Venezuela, where people can’t afford to buy computers, so they go for the small sibling: the phone. Already a recent tournament managed to break not only through the previously unseen 100 thousand mark in a mobile e-sports tournament, but also straight up to the 500 thousand mark.

With the speed with which this esports modality is gaining traction, we shouldn’t be surprised to see an increase in the massive explosive growth of players and viewers for this game and similar ones that may sprout to imitate it.

What mobile games do you think will be at the top of the viewership rankings by the start of 2020?