Stalwart Esports won PMPL South Asia Championship Fall 2023 and took $26,000 out of the event’s $150,000 prize pool. The Mongolia-flagged roster closed the region’s 2023 season on September 3, 2023, finishing ahead of 4Merical Vibes and Pakistan’s AGONxi8 Esports across 24 grand-final matches, per Liquipedia’s tournament page.
This page is the post-event record: the four separate tournaments that made up the 2023 South Asia season, the format each used, the teams that played, the verified final standings and prize splits, and what the region’s top sides did afterwards at the global championship. Where a number could not be confirmed against a primary source, it is left out and said so.
What “PMPL South Asia 2023” actually refers to
There is no single PMPL South Asia 2023 tournament. KRAFTON, Level Infinite and NODWIN Gaming ran the region as two splits, and each split had two stages: a Pro League with an $80,000 prize pool, followed by a Championship with a $150,000 prize pool. Four events, three different winners’ cheques, one region.
- PMPL South Asia Spring 2023 — March 21 to April 16, 2023. $80,000, 20 teams. Won by Stalwart Esports ($9,500).
- PMPL South Asia Championship Spring 2023 — May 4 to 28, 2023. $150,000, 20 teams. Won by Stalwart Esports ($26,000).
- PMPL South Asia Fall 2023 — July 25 to August 20, 2023. $80,000, 20 teams. Won by 4Merical Vibes ($9,500).
- PMPL South Asia Championship Fall 2023 — August 24 to September 3, 2023. $150,000, 20 teams. Won by Stalwart Esports ($26,000).
The two Pro League splits were a closed circuit: all 20 teams in the Fall Pro League had earned their place through the Spring Pro League earlier in the year, so the same core of Mongolian, Nepali and Bangladeshi organisations played each other for most of 2023. The Championships were the widened version of that field, adding Pakistan’s top eight.
When people search for the 2023 result, they almost always mean the last of those four: the Fall Championship, the event that decided the region’s Global Championship slots. That is the tournament the standings and prize tables below cover.
Format: league stage to grand finals
The Fall Championship field was 20 teams: the top 12 from PMPL South Asia Fall 2023 plus the top 8 from PMPL Pakistan Fall 2023. Those 20 played a four-day league stage from August 24 to 27, 2023 — 20 matches at five per day — and the top 16 advanced.
The grand finals ran August 31 to September 3, 2023: 16 teams, 24 matches, six per day. Liquipedia’s format notes for the Championship list no carry-over bonus points into that finals block, unlike the Pro League split described below.
That Pro League split used a different shape. PMPL South Asia Fall 2023 ran its league from July 25 to August 13, 2023 across three weeks, with the 20 teams redrawn into five groups every week and each group playing four round-robin matches per day. After 25 matches, the top 12 played an additional Livik match on a separate points system, and teams carried bonus points earned in the league into an 18-match finals held August 18 to 20, 2023, according to Liquipedia’s PMPL South Asia Fall 2023 page.
4Merical Vibes won that Pro League split on August 20, 2023 for $9,500, with Mabetex Esports second ($6,500) and RAW Esports third ($5,500). Stalwart Esports placed fourth. The 12 teams above the Pro League cut line then carried on into the Championship four days later, which is why the two events share so many names.
Which teams played, and where they came from
PMPL South Asia is not an Indian league. Every roster in the 2023 Fall Championship carried a Mongolian, Nepali, Bangladeshi or Pakistani flag — there were no Indian entries in the field.
- From PMPL South Asia Fall 2023 (12 slots): 4Merical Vibes, Mabetex Esports, RAW Esports, Stalwart Esports, Trained to Kill, NB Esports, Leo Esports, IHC Esports, DRS Gaming, Skylightz Gaming, Highvoltage DC and King of Spades.
- From PMPL Pakistan Fall 2023 (8 slots): AGONxi8 Esports, R3GICIDE, Seventh Element, SR I 3x Esports, Magnus Esports, Team TUF, 52 Esports and Hellraisers.
That split of slots matters for reading the results. Pakistan sent eight teams straight from its own national Pro League into a field where the other twelve had already been beating each other for a month, and two of those eight — AGONxi8 Esports and Seventh Element — finished in the top six.
For Bangladeshi readers, the flag to track was King of Spades, the one Bangladeshi side to survive the Pro League split and reach the Championship. They finished 12th in the Fall Pro League and 17th of 20 at the Championship. BiT x CMF was the other Bangladeshi team in the Fall Pro League field of 20.
Final standings: PMPL South Asia Championship Fall 2023
Top eight from the grand finals that ended September 3, 2023. Placements and payouts below match on both Liquipedia and Esports Earnings.
| Place | Team | Country | Prize | PMGC 2023 slot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stalwart Esports | Mongolia | $26,000 | Already in (regional points) |
| 2 | 4Merical Vibes | Mongolia | $20,000 | Qualified |
| 3 | AGONxi8 Esports | Pakistan | $14,000 | Already in (Pakistan points) |
| 4 | NB Esports | Mongolia | $13,000 | Qualified |
| 5 | IHC Esports | Mongolia | $12,000 | Qualified |
| 6 | Seventh Element | Pakistan | $10,000 | Qualified |
| 7 | RAW Esports | Nepal | $8,000 | — |
| 8 | Trained to Kill | Nepal | $6,500 | — |
Cumulative finals point totals are not published on either of those two sources, so they are left out here rather than guessed at. The placement order and the money are the parts that are documented.
Prize pool breakdown: the full $150,000
Every one of the 20 Championship teams was paid. The 20 placement shares total $149,000, and the $1,000 MVP award accounts for the remaining $1,000 of the advertised $150,000 — the distribution closes out exactly, with nothing held back.
| Place | Team | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stalwart Esports | $26,000 |
| 2 | 4Merical Vibes | $20,000 |
| 3 | AGONxi8 Esports | $14,000 |
| 4 | NB Esports | $13,000 |
| 5 | IHC Esports | $12,000 |
| 6 | Seventh Element | $10,000 |
| 7 | RAW Esports | $8,000 |
| 8 | Trained to Kill | $6,500 |
| 9 | Skylightz Gaming | $6,000 |
| 10 | DRS Gaming | $5,500 |
| 11 | Highvoltage DC | $5,000 |
| 12 | Leo Esports | $4,500 |
| 13 | Magnus Esports | $4,000 |
| 14 | Mabetex Esports | $3,500 |
| 15 | R3GICIDE | $3,000 |
| 16 | 52 Esports | $2,500 |
| 17 | King of Spades | $2,000 |
| 18 | SR I 3x Esports | $1,500 |
| 19 | Team TUF | $1,000 |
| 20 | Hellraisers | $1,000 |
| MVP | TOP (Stalwart Esports) | $1,000 |
For context on the tier below: the Pro League splits paid $9,500 to the winner from an $80,000 pool, so trading a Pro League title for a Championship title was worth about 2.7 times the cheque. The gap between first and last at the Championship was $25,000, which is the practical reason South Asian orgs treated the Championship split as the season’s real deadline.
Stalwart’s 2023 and the standout individual performances
Stalwart Esports won three of the region’s four 2023 events: the Spring Pro League (March 21 to April 16), the Spring Championship (May 4 to 28) and the Fall Championship (August 24 to September 3). Their Spring Championship win also sent them to the PUBG Mobile World Invitational 2023 in Riyadh, as TalkEsport reported at the time.
The Spring Championship in May 2023 produced almost the same order at the top as the Fall one did in September: Stalwart Esports first for $26,000, 4Merical Vibes second for $20,000, then DRS Gaming ($14,000), Trained to Kill ($13,000), Mabetex Esports ($12,000), Leo Esports ($10,000), AGONxi8 Esports ($8,000) and NB Esports ($6,500). Stalwart and 4Merical Vibes finished first and second in both Championship splits of 2023.
The one event Stalwart did not win was the Fall Pro League, where 4Merical Vibes took the $9,500 top prize and Stalwart placed fourth — then reversed the result three weeks later on the bigger stage.
Two individual awards are on the record for the Fall split. TOP of Stalwart Esports was named MVP of the Fall Championship, worth $1,000; TOP had also taken the MVP award at the Spring Pro League in April 2023. SkY of RAW Esports was named MVP of the Fall Pro League, also worth $1,000. If those short, all-caps in-game names are the look you want on your own account, our guide to PUBG name symbols and stylish nicknames covers the characters that actually render in-game.
From South Asia to PMGC 2023
Six teams from the region reached the PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2023. Four earned their slots directly at the Fall Championship — 4Merical Vibes, NB Esports, IHC Esports and Seventh Element. Stalwart Esports had already qualified on South Asia championship points and AGONxi8 Esports on Pakistan points, which is why the top two finishers in the standings table are marked as already in.
That pipeline paid off at the top of the sport. PMGC 2023 ran November 2 to December 10, 2023, with the league stage in Kuala Lumpur and the grand finals in Istanbul, across a $3,000,000 prize pool and 50 teams. IHC Esports — fifth at the South Asia Fall Championship — won it, and Liquipedia’s payout table lists $453,500 against their name. Stalwart Esports finished second for $263,000, and 4Merical Vibes placed fourth for $144,000.
Three of the top four teams in the world that December had come through PMPL South Asia, and each of them had a $150,000 regional Championship on their record from earlier in the year. Read backwards, the 2023 South Asia season is the qualifying path for a world title rather than a self-contained regional circuit.
Where to watch the VODs
Both Fall events were broadcast on the official PUBG MOBILE Esports South Asia YouTube channel and the PUBG MOBILE South Asia Esports Facebook page. Liquipedia’s Fall Championship page is the most practical index: it lists all 24 grand-final matches with date, map, the top three teams per match and a VOD link for each, so you can jump straight to a specific Erangel or Miramar drop instead of scrubbing a six-hour day-long stream. Match one of the finals, for the record, went out at 18:10 Bangladesh time on August 31, 2023, on Erangel.
If you are watching to copy pro rotations rather than for the highlights, two things help. Fix your own frame pacing first — our walkthrough on how to reduce PUBG Mobile lag deals with the settings that cost you fights on mid-range Android hardware. For coverage between events, our directory of PUBG and gaming streamers worth following includes creators from Bangladesh and the wider region who replay and break down competitive matches.
