MLBB M5 World Championship
| 2023 | |
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Sport | Mobile Legends: Bang Bang |
| Dates | 2–17 December 2023 |
| Administrator | Moonton |
Tournament format(s) | Group stage Single Round Robin Format Playoffs Double Elimination Format |
| Host(s) | Philippines |
| Venue(s) | EVM Convention Center (Group Stage and Knockouts Stage 1) Rizal Memorial Coliseum (Knockouts Stage 2 and Grand Finals) |
| Teams | 16 |
| Purse | $900,000 |
| Website | https://m5.mobilelegends.com/ |
| Final positions | |
| Champion | AP Bren (2nd Title) |
| 1st runners-up | ONIC Esports |
| 2nd runners-up | Blacklist International |
| Tournament statistics | |
| MVP | David "FlapTzy" Canon (AP Bren) |
| M5 Fan Choice Award | ONIC Esports |
The 2023 Mobile Legends: Bang Bang World Championship, commonly referred to as the M5 World Championships and M5, was the fifth edition of the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang World Championship, an esports tournament for the mobile phone MOBA game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. The world championship lasted from November 23 until December 17, 2023.
This edition of the world series foresaw an increase in regional and team participation with new entries including South Asia, Mekong, Mongolia and China. Meanwhile, team qualifications for Latin America increased from one representative to two for this edition. This world championship featured the first wild card event where eight (8) teams from the aforementioned regions including Malaysia, Europe, MENA, and LATAM were able to compete for two wildcard slots. It also featured then, the highest prize pool for any international MLBB competition at $900,000, and the highest number of team participation in all of its editions.
In the Grand Finals, AP Bren won the M5 World Championship title in seven games, defeating Indonesia's ONIC Esports making them the only organization thus far to win two-world championship titles. This was the second-time that an Indonesian and Filipino representative faced each other in the Grand Finals of a major MLBB tournament, the first being Blacklist International and ONIC Esports during MSC 2023.
The Grand Finals match also broke the M4 World Championship’s Grand Finals viewership record—recording 5,067,107 peak live viewers during the match, making it the most-watched MLBB game in history and the second-most watched game in 2023, just behind the 2023 League of Legends World Championship between T1 and Weibo Gaming.