The development of the esports industry in Indonesia has been growing rapidly in recent years. In fact, esports has become a business that covers various fields such as entertainment, lifestyle, and the creative industry. Esports teams continue to innovate to advance the professional esports scene in Indonesia, especially the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) team.
One of the latest innovation trends is to collaborate with esports teams from abroad. This form of cooperation can be in the form of team collaboration or even acquisition, which aims to develop business between the two teams.
So which teams have collaborated with outside teams? Here we will present the list.
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List of Indonesian Esports Teams Collaborating with Foreign Teams
1. Bigetron Era (Player purchase by Team Vitality)
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Bigerton Era is the first Indonesian esports team to collaborate with an international team. This Mobile Legends: Bang Bang ladies team has achieved many achievements, both locally and internationally. With these extraordinary achievements, it is not surprising that many international teams are interested in having these five talented players.
Some time ago, Bigetron Era finally announced the future of the players. From what was seen on the team’s Instagram account, the five players will finally join the France-based Team Vitality team.
2. GPX Basreng (Player purchase by Falcons)
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The next team to collaborate with an outside team is GPX Basreng. In addition to Bigetron Era, now the GPX Basreng women’s team is also following in the footsteps of the robot team that has officially moved to the Saudi Arabian team, Team Falcons.
In May GPX announced this. In the announcement, all members of GPX Basreng have now joined Team Falcons as official players.
3. ONIC Esports (Collaboration with Fnatic)
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Ahead of the start of the MPL Season 13 Playoffs, ONIC suddenly announced surprising news. The ONIC team officially announced their collaboration with the Fnatic team with a collaboration status.
On this occasion, this collaboration was announced through a post on ONIC ID’s social media. What’s interesting is that Fnatic also confirmed that ONIC Philippines will also participate in this collaboration. So, two teams with the same characteristics have an agreement with the big team Fnatic.
4. Aura Fire (Acquired by Liquid)
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Yawi’s drama in the last week of the Regular Season round of MPL Season 13 raised many questions about the future of Yawi Drama. However, it turned out that the words uttered on the MPL Arena stage were just drama. In fact, the sentence “last appearance” was only an announcement that the AURA Fire team was officially acquired by the big team Liquid.
Currently, Team Liquid has officially acquired all AURA Fire players, from MDL, MPL, to Brand Ambassador. Not only that, Team Liquid also acquired its sister team in the Philippines, ECHO Esports. As a result, AURA Fire’s name has now changed to Liquid Aura.
Well, that’s the list of esports teams that have collaborated with foreign esports teams. The collaboration that is carried out certainly has the aim of developing a wider business, especially for Indonesian esports teams.
