The first day of Mobile Legends numbers at the XXI National Sports Week 2024 Aceh-North Sumatra (MLBB PON 2024) was completed at the Medan International Convention Center on Monday (16/9). As a result, the two hosts had different fates.
Even though it was held in Medan, Aceh and North Sumatra (North Sumatra) still had the status of hosts. These two teams have fate like the earth and sky, where there is a team that is undefeated and never wins.
North Sumatra became the best host at MLBB PON 2024 after appearing undefeated. They successfully reached the upper bracket final after beating Banten (2-0) and West Nusa Tenggara (2-1).
North Sumatra’s success in advancing to the final of the 2024 MLBB PON upper bracket was predicted previously. The reason is that they are also strengthened by professional players, such as Garry “Garry” Elwandatanta Ketaren and Adhitya “Spencer” Zulkarnain Barus who are part of DEWA United Esports, respectively for the MPL ID team and the National League Esports League 2.
In the upper bracket final, North Sumatra will face Bali, which is also one of the other favorite toktoto teams in MLBB PON 2024. Even though the players from the Island of the Gods come from Team Gryffin, which is a community team, many people believe that they are the biggest challengers to win gold medal.
Evidently, Bali succeeded in advancing to the upper bracket final by beating two other favorite teams such as West Java and Lampung with the same score, 2-0.
In comparison with North Sumatra, Aceh as the host of PON XXI 2024 had to be eliminated on the first day. In fact, they were never able to achieve a single win from the two matches they played against Lampung and West Java. This result means they have to be separated from the competition.
However, it is not only Aceh that has been confirmed to be eliminated from the 2024 MLBB PON competition. In total there are four teams that must be spectators on the final day, namely Aceh, Banten, West Sumatra and West Nusa Tenggara.
Just like Aceh, Banten has also had to be eliminated from the 2024 MLBB PON competition after losing to North Sumatra (0-2) and West Sumatra (1-2).
Meanwhile, West Sumatra is the third team that has also had to be eliminated from MLBB PON 2024 after losing to Lampung. Facing the team strengthened by Rio Juliansyah who strengthened Rebellion Esports in MPL ID S14, West Sumatra had to lose with a score of 0-2 in the lower bracket quarter-finals and ended their hopes of winning a medal for their provincial contingent.
On the other hand, West Nusa Tenggara, which had a surprising appearance at the start of MLBB PON 2024, apparently had to be eliminated on the first day. They had a fierce battle against West Java, but their opponents played better until their lead in the first game turned into a 1-2 defeat.
This result means that West Java and Lampung will face each other in the lower bracket semifinals which will be held on Wednesday (18/9). Both of them also confirmed themselves to be in the top four positions in MLBB PON 2024 along with North Sumatra and Bali.