For professional esports athletes 'Diablo' and 'Vanix' of Team Flash, countless hours of scrims are exchanged for fleeting moments of glory in the MPL Singapore league. Their journey in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang demands relentless practice, discipline, and an unbreakable bond as teammates. With their sights set on the Esports World Cup, they reflect on the sacrifices made for those brief moments of triumph and their dream of elevating Singapore on the global esports stage.
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00:00I don't think they understand the amount of effort that eSports athletes put in
00:03in order to quantify our skills.
00:05So I believe the hard work that we put in cannot be underestimated.
00:21Mobile Legends Bang Bang is a multiplayer online battle arena game
00:25which involves 5 people fighting against 5 people.
00:27And also this game involves 5 different roles coming together.
00:30So it's like Majors, they are Marksmen, Fighters, Junglers which is Assassins
00:35and also Roamers which is Tankers.
00:38Each of these 5 different heroes plays a part in order to help you
00:41take down the enemy's side quests in the game like maybe Turtles and Logs
00:44that speed up your advances into their base
00:47and also helps to take down the enemy's nexus faster.
00:51Hi, I'm Diablo. I play the role of Fighter slash EXP for Team Flash.
00:55Hi, I'm Vanix. I play the role of Marksman slash Golem for Team Flash.
00:59I'm basically a full-time eSports player so I do scrimmages from morning to night
01:03mostly every day in preparation for Mobile Legends Professional League.
01:07So basically scrims is a short form for scrimmage.
01:11It's generally used in sports.
01:14It's a shorter term for like formal tournaments between other teams.
01:17For us, it's a pre-game warm-up.
01:19So we will be fighting against teams from other regions
01:22to know where we stand against each other.
01:24And usually we scrim those top-tier teams from other countries instead of Singapore
01:28because we can learn more strategies and all the macro skills from them.
01:32So if we do manage to win this NPL Singapore season
01:36we will be able to go to eSports World Cup which is held in Saudi.
01:40I will make a marksman farm and I will do my job as well.
01:43So today's objective of the game.
01:46We invade their jungle, we make them cry and we win.
01:54I started out as a casual player back when playing a bit of Mobile Legends here and there during my free time.
02:11So after I ORD from ARMY, I decided to give amateur tournaments a try.
02:17So I formed teams with my online friends which is around 2020.
02:22There's a community tournament that is providing slots to NPL Singapore.
02:26So me and my team decided to give it a try.
02:28And although we didn't qualify, we managed to beat some good teams.
02:32From there, I got scouted by a pro team and that's how I started my eSports career.
02:37When COVID-19 came, there was Circuit Breaker and I played even more.
02:41And that's where I became popular in the game.
02:44Then people know me and then asked me to join community tournaments with them.
02:48My friend contacted me through Instagram to ask me to join a newly formed eSports team
02:52which is called Zion.
02:53And I played with them for two seasons.
02:56Then after that, the team disbanded.
02:58So Flash reached out to me and I've been playing for them ever since.
03:02Throughout my eSports career, I've been awarded three times champions for three consecutive seasons.
03:10Starting from Season 3 until 6.
03:12And also I was awarded the Grand Finals MVP for Season 4.
03:15As well as Vanity Fair is awarded Season 6 regular season MVP.
03:20I feel happy when I was awarded the regular season MVP during Season 6
03:24because it shows that I'm one of the good players out there and able to lead my team to victory.
03:29So for us, because this is a new team,
03:32so basically I've been asked to join the team on January and that's where we started our training.
03:38Technically, I've been with the team for four months already from January till now.
03:42I would say we require a lot of bonding sessions as well as different training schedules
03:49because this team, there are people who are busy.
03:51This team, there are people who are free all the time.
03:53So we make up by adjusting to each other's schedule
03:56and accommodating our free time to help each other out.
03:59And also I feel like what's important for this team is our synergy
04:03because it's a newly formed team.
04:04We haven't been together for more than a year.
04:07It's just starting from this year that we are formed.
04:09So I believe that communication and also trusting each other is very important.
04:14The disadvantage of having an esports career is
04:17we will be spending most of our time training, playing games.
04:21So we will have less time to spend outside with our family, friends and all.
04:26I still think this journey is quite fun because it's doing something that I like.
04:32And for this team, usually we will have off days
04:34so that we will have time for ourselves and our family.
04:39A few days later...
04:56Hello, Medic! What's up?
04:58So this is the current DimFlash lineup.
05:00The person beside me is JPL, he's the roamer.
05:04And then beside JPL is Diablo, he's the EXP laner.
05:08In front of me is Hades, he's the jungler.
05:10And beside him is Khatizzy, who is the mid.
05:14And the person on the computer is Adamir, he's the code slash sub for Golem.
05:19And we're gonna start scrimming now.
05:38Coming, coming, coming.
06:08The burst from Jay! Too much for RNG to hold!
06:12No way!
06:13Secures the low for himself, a knock-up onto Aoki, purified immediately.
06:17Hard guard, a massive teamfight.
06:19Fnatic's a little bit slow in terms of damage, but there it comes.
06:22Jay dragging Aoki.
06:23Hades, Hades, Hades!
06:25On the other side of the map, DimFlash delaying the inevitable.
06:29RNG will be going for the kill.
06:32Hades, Hades, Hades!
06:34The base, the base!
06:36Goal!
06:38Struggles!
06:39We didn't expect this.
06:40We thought another record will be broken where we see a fourth-time champion.
06:46But here, we have brand new kings right here in Singapore
06:50that will represent us over on the international stage at the M5s.
06:55And we hope that all of the other regions can take a look at us,
06:59at our brand new kings, because they fought hard and they fought valiantly.
07:05So right here for Singapore, we present Team Flash.
07:10For criticism, we do get negative feedbacks online from other people.
07:14But usually how we will deal with it is we just tend to ignore the pointless ones.
07:18The ones that actually give us good feedbacks,
07:20we will take them in and see whether we can improve ourselves or not.
07:24Because I would say in esports, there's always room for improvement.
07:28So we take feedbacks seriously.
07:30I don't think they understand the amount of effort that we,
07:33as esports athletes, put in in order to fortify our skills.
07:37Because the amount of training that we do is no less than regular sports athletes.
07:41We train from morning till night and we do it consistently.
07:45We don't do it one day and then we rest.
07:47We do it consistently to make sure that our skills will not get rusty.
07:52So I believe the hard work that we put in cannot be underestimated.
07:57My lowest moments in esports career is during NPL Season 4 when I was still in Zion.
08:02I was relegated. I got last place and got kicked out of NPL Season 4.
08:07My mum saw and she wasn't really happy that I was playing esports
08:12because my studies weren't that well also.
08:15I convinced her by telling her that to give me one more chance to play
08:18and I'll do well for my studies also.
08:20Then she said okay and then after that I showed her the result in NPL Season 5
08:25where I got second place.
08:26And that's when my studies also got better.
08:29So she was okay with it after that.
08:31These are the three important qualities that you need to be an esports player.
08:34Firstly, your skills. You need to have the skills to be a player.
08:37And your mental needs to be strong because
08:40there are definitely times where you will lose but you cannot let that affect you.
08:44Second thing is to have teamwork because this is a 5v5 game and not a solo game.
08:49I also think that you need to be disciplined
08:51because sometimes there are things that you shouldn't do
08:53but you need to have the discipline to hold you back.
08:56And lastly, you need to be committed.
08:58If you're not committed, then it's not ideal to be an esports player.
09:03As an esports player, I want to push myself to greater heights.
09:06And definitely what I want to achieve in the end is
09:09of course the person who will be supporting the future generations to come.
09:14And I want to build a legacy in Singapore MLBV
09:16as the one who brought Singapore to be the world champion.
09:20That's my goal.
09:21And so that people in the future can look up to me
09:23as someone who they aspire to be in the future.
09:26When they step into the MLBV scene in Singapore,
09:29I hope to achieve another one and represent Singapore again
09:32such as the Esports World Cup.
09:35And I hope that I'll be able to get the championship
09:38for the international competition also
09:40and showing that Singapore is also a strong team.