In the biggest underdog story of the year, Yangon Galacticos has won the PUBG Mobile World Cup (PMWC) 2025 after ‘surviving’ the Survival Stage by just one point.
The Myanmar team was never among the favourites for the tournament, but managed to showcase the unpredictability of PUBG Mobile esports, as it defeated all the usual
favourites to be crowned world champions.
To put the scale of Yangon Galacticos’ achievement into perspective,the team made it through open qualifiers in Myanmar to the Challengers League (SEA) to qualify. Furthermore, the team was not any part of the Super League of any region.
By seed distribution in the PMWC Grand Finals, Yangon Galacticos are technically last. This is because it was the last team to qualify through the Survival Stage. The team placed eighth, and just a loss of one point would have led to elimination.
The Grand Finale
In the grand finals, the first match was uneventful for the team, as it was eliminated in 12th place with just one kill. However, just in the second game, the team earned a WWCD (Winner Winner Chicken Dinner), that too with 12 eliminations to its name. This was its third WWCD throughout the PMWC.
However, from there, the team put up a string of consistent performances, including three more victories to propel Yangon Galacticos to the top of the standings table with 157 points, 15 ahead of secondplaced Weibo Gaming.
China’s Weibo Gaming were one of
the favourites to win the tournament,
but had to settle for second
place.
