ON the heels of a successful inaugural season, the Collegiate Center for Esports dives right back to action next month for Season 2 featuring an even stronger, bolder, and better competition in the Land of Dawn.
With an expected even playing field on deck, 10 established schools and universities are raring to go to strut their stuff anew in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang starting on Nov. 4 in a collective bid to strengthen the Esports movement in the collegiate ranks.
Season 1 champion Lyceum still looms as the tournament favorite with an intact core led by MVP Mark Kenneth Delos Reyes, a bona fide student of the country’s first-ever Bachelor in Esports academic program.
The Pirates also reigned supreme in the Varsity Cup, featuring varsity basketball athletes, that serves as a launching event of CCE as the newest collegiate Esports league in the country.
But while that should be enough indications for another Lyceum coronation, it is not expected to be a walk in the park with a hungrier opposition in the way led by runner-up and its fierce rival San Sebastian College.
The Golden Stags got swept 0-2 in the Season 1 grand finals that was held before a jampacked crowd at the SM Mall of Asia Music Hall, making them an extra motivated squad to hammer out a sweet vengeance this time around.
San Sebastian already displayed a glimpse of that capability after scoring a huge 2-0 sweep of the Pirates in the semifinals of the ML Pro Series (MPS) Sea Campus Invitational Summer 2022 backed by CCE last week en route to a runner-up finish.
Aside from the Golden Stags, eight more squads led by Season 1 lower bracket finalists College of St. Benilde and Mapua U are tipped to give the fancied Pirates a run of their own money.
