MOBA Mobile
Introducing MOBA Mobile
MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) Mobile is a fast-paced team discipline played on smartphones. Two teams battle across an arena, each player controlling a single hero, with the aim of destroying the opposing team's base. Winning takes split-second decisions, mastery of your hero and tight teamwork.
How MOBA Mobile works
Sixteen teams are drawn at random into four groups of four.
Following the first two matches in the group stage, the top team of each group goes straight through to the quarterfinals. Any team that loses twice is eliminated.
The second- and third-placed teams in each group then play a third match against teams with the same ranking from the other groups. The winners of these matches fill the remaining quarterfinal places. The tournament then continues through quarterfinals, semifinals, a third-place playoff, and the final.
Teams
Each team has up to six athletes. Five athletes compete in each match with the sixth available as a substitute between matches.
Match format – Group stage
Each match is played following the best-of-three format (Bo3). Before each game, a coin is tossed and the winner chooses which side of the map to play on. Each side has small advantages – such as easier access to early objectives – so the choice can shape how a game starts. In the following games, the team that lost the previous game chooses the side.
Match format – Final
Finals are always played following the best-of-five format (Bo5). As in the group stages, a coin toss decides the team that gets to choose which side of the map they want to play. And the loser of each game gets to select the side they want to play in the next game – until one team wins three games and is declared the champion.
Winning teams at Games of the Future Astana 2026
Winning teams at Games of the Future Abu Dhabi 2025
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