The MPL Indonesia Season 17 regular season wrapped up on May 24, and the final standings delivered one of the wildest closing weeks Indonesian MLBB has ever seen. Nine weeks of matches, upsets, hot streaks, and heartbreak all came down to a single Sunday evening at the XO Hall in Jakarta. Now we know the six teams heading to the Velodrome for playoffs. And we know the three going home.
If you missed Week 9, buckle up. This is the recap you need before the MPL ID S17 playoff race goes to the next level.
π ONIC Locked It Down in Week 8
Let’s start at the top because ONIC made this part easy. Kairi and the squad clinched the regular season title back in Week 8 after beating Dewa United 2-0 on May 15. At that point, their record stood at an absurd 12-2 with a net game differential of +20. No other team came close to that kind of consistency.
Week 9 brought a rare stumble when Bigetron by Vitality took them down 2-1 on Saturday, marking BTR’s second series win over ONIC this season. The final record for the defending champions: 13 wins, 3 losses, 13 match points. Their only defeats came from BTR twice (Weeks 3 and 9) and Geek Fam once (Week 5). Upper bracket secured. Regular season crown in the bag. ONIC look exactly like a team that plans on keeping the trophy.
π₯ Week 9: Where Everything Fell Apart (and Came Together)
The final week was supposed to sort out positions 2 through 6. It did that. It also produced the biggest shock of the entire season.
Team Liquid ID Swept Their Way to Second
Team Liquid ID entered Week 9 needing one strong push to guarantee an upper bracket seat next to ONIC. They delivered two clean 2-0 sweeps, first dismantling Alter Ego on Friday, then doing the same to Geek Fam on Saturday. That performance bumped them up to 10 match points and locked them into the second seed. No drama, no game threes required.
TLID’s rotations and drafting flexibility looked polished all week. Their macro game has been steadily improving since mid-season, and heading into playoffs from the upper bracket gives them a real shot at making noise in June.
Bigetron Pulled Off the Clutch
Bigetron by Vitality came into Week 9 sitting on the bubble, and they responded with one of the gutsiest performances of the split. A 2-1 win over Dewa United on Friday flipped the standings upside down, and they followed that up by knocking off ONIC 2-1 on Saturday. Two wins in one week pushed BTR up to 9 match points, enough for fourth place overall.
That Dewa United loss stung. Coming into the week at second place, Dewa expected to hold onto their upper bracket ticket. Instead, they dropped to third with 9 points, still comfortably in the playoffs but now starting from a lower seed than they planned.
π Alter Ego: The Biggest Upset of MPL ID S17
This is the one everyone will be talking about for weeks.
Alter Ego, the runners-up of the MLBB M7 World Championship, failed to make playoffs. That sentence still feels surreal to type. AE went into Week 9 in a tough spot after back-to-back losses in Week 8 against ONIC and BTR, sitting seventh with 7 points. They needed wins. They got the opposite.
TLID swept them on Friday. And then on Saturday, RRQ Hoshi, a team that had been mathematically eliminated since Week 7 with just two total wins all season, pulled off a 2-1 upset that ended Alter Ego’s season on the spot. RRQ had nothing to play for. AE had everything to play for. RRQ won anyway.
The M7 World Championship finalists are going home before playoffs even begin. Seventh place. Seven wins, nine losses. A regular season to forget for a roster that was expected to challenge ONIC for the title.
Geek Fam Survived, NAVI Didn’t
The last playoff slot came down to Sunday night. Geek Fam and NAVI both entered the final day knowing only one of them could make it through. NAVI had been the hottest team at the bottom of the table, riding a three-match win streak that included victories over BTR, EVOS, and RRQ. Their late-season surge gave fans hope for a miracle run.
But Geek Fam shut the door. By taking the final spot with 8 match points, they denied NAVI one of the most dramatic comebacks in MPL Indonesia history. NAVI finished eighth with 6 points and a 6-10 record. The talent was there. The start of the season was not.
π Final MPL Indonesia Season 17 Standings
| Rank | Team | Points | Record | Status |
| 1 | ONIC | 13 | 13-3 | β Upper Bracket |
| 2 | Team Liquid ID | 10 | 10-6 | β Upper Bracket |
| 3 | Dewa United | 9 | 9-7 | β Lower Bracket |
| 4 | Bigetron by Vitality | 9 | 9-7 | β Lower Bracket |
| 5 | EVOS | 8 | 8-8 | β Lower Bracket |
| 6 | Geek Fam | 8 | 8-8 | β Lower Bracket |
| 7 | Alter Ego | 7 | 7-9 | β Eliminated |
| 8 | NAVI | 6 | 6-10 | β Eliminated |
| 9 | RRQ Hoshi | 2 | 2-14 | β Eliminated |
Teams ranked 1st and 2nd skip straight to the upper bracket semifinals. Teams at 3rd through 6th start from the quarterfinals in a single-elimination Play-Ins round.
π― What’s Next: Playoffs at the Velodrome
The MPL ID S17 Playoffs kick off on June 10 and run through June 14 at the Jakarta International Velodrome. The format gives upper bracket teams a safety net: lose once and you drop down to the lower bracket instead of going home. Lower bracket teams get no second chances in Round 1.
All matches are Best of 5 except the Lower Bracket Final and Grand Final, which are Best of 7.
The two Grand Finalists will represent Indonesia at MSC 2026, the mid-season international championship. That’s the real prize here. A domestic title matters, but the MSC ticket puts you on the global stage.
Matchups to Watch
- ONIC vs. the bracket: Can anyone stop Kairi and the squad from running it back? Two of their three regular season losses came from BTR, who now start in the lower bracket. If BTR climbs high enough for a rematch, ONIC know from experience that Bigetron can hurt them.
- Team Liquid ID’s momentum: TLID closed the regular season looking like the second-best team in Indonesia by a comfortable margin. Playoffs are a different beast, though, and their Bo5 record this season has yet to be tested.
- Dewa United’s bounce back: Dewa went from second place to third after losing to BTR in Week 9. Starting from the lower bracket when you expected upper bracket is a mental blow. How fast they shake off that disappointment could decide their tournament.
- Geek Fam as the wildcard: They barely scraped into playoffs. They also beat ONIC earlier this season. Geek Fam at their best can upset anyone. The question is whether their best shows up consistently across a Bo5.
The regular season gave us nine weeks of storylines. The Velodrome gets five days to finish them.
