PMGC 2023: IHC Esports are the champions

The fourth Global Championship ended at the Ülker Sports and Event Hall in Istanbul on 10 December 2023. IHC Esports of Mongolia won the title ahead of Stalwart Esports, with IHC Zyol taking the MVP award.

The win was Mongolia's first PMGC title. Fifty teams competed in the 2023 season.

The season opened on 2 November 2023 and paid out a $3,000,000 prize pool, with Stalwart Esports finishing second behind IHC.

Kuala Lumpur hosted a forty-eight team League stage in three sixteen team groups, with each group playing twenty-four matches across four matchdays. Group winners through third place went straight to Istanbul, while fourth to eleventh dropped into the Survival Stage.

The Survival Stage featured twenty-four teams across three days, with sixteen reaching the Last Chance round. Twelve Last Chance matches decided the final five Grand Finals places.

Istanbul staged eighteen Grand Finals matches from 8 to 10 December 2023, with IHC taking the title on 142 points. The Grand Finals carried a $1,420,000 pool, with $400,000 for the winners.

Zyol of IHC was named the tournament MVP after 37 eliminations and 7,616 damage. Zyol also took the Gunslinger award, while FaZe MELA took Grenade Master and DX ParaJin took Field Medic.

Placement points ran 10 for a win, then 6, 5, 4, 3 and 2, with one point for seventh and eighth and one more per elimination.

IHC reached Istanbul the hard way, coming through the Survival Stage and the Last Chance round after a rough group stage.

IHC banked $453,000 across the whole event, with Stalwart on $263,000 and 4Merical Vibes on $144,000.

PMGC 2023 matches aired on the PUBG Mobile Esports YouTube channel.

Stalwart Esports finished second on 138 points, with Alpha7 Esports third on 131, 4Merical Vibes fourth on 127, D'Xavier fifth on 124, FaZe Clan sixth on 120, Nongshim RedForce seventh on 112, Team Weibo eighth on 110, Titan Esports Club ninth on 102, Six Two Eight tenth on 100, S2G Esports eleventh on 98, Loops Esports twelfth on 77, Persija Evos thirteenth on 74, Major Pride fourteenth on 71, Yoodo Alliance fifteenth on 69 and Morph GPX sixteenth on 48. IHC's 142 points came from 32 placement points and 110 finishes, Stalwart's 138 from 55 placement points and 83 finishes, Alpha7's 131 from 54 placement points and 77 finishes, and 4Merical Vibes' 127 from 43 placement points and 84 finishes.

Two invited sides joined the fourteen League qualifiers, with S2G Esports entering as the host country team and Titan Esports Club on PEL points.

Battle Arena in Kuala Lumpur hosted the League stage, while the Grand Finals played at the Ulker Sports and Event Hall in Istanbul.

PMGC 2023's Grand Finals used an 18-match schedule, six per day, with a fixed daily map order of Sanhok, three Erangel games and two Miramar games.