AP.Bren lived up to its lofty billing and topped the regular season of the MPL Philippines Season 13 to clinch one of the three outright upper bracket slots in the league’s gauntlet format for the playoffs.

After a thrilling seven-week elimination phase, the defending champions and the reigning M-World titlists seized the top of the standings with 35 points on an 11-3 record to get the upper bracket semis spot where they will face the survivor of the two play-in rounds in the playoffs.

ECHO and RSG Philippines both also clinched the outright upper bracket semis seats and are actually set to battle each other in a best-of-five affair for a spot in the upper bracket finals.

ECHO and RSG, along with Onic Philippines actually ended on a three-way tie for the second to fourth spots with similar 9-5 slates but the former two went on to claim the spots after collecting more points than the latter at the end of the eliminations.

The Orcas finished with 30 points while the Raiders had 29 points, relegating the Sonics, who only had 28 points, to the fourth seed and a slot to the second round of the play-in.

Blacklist, which finished the regular season with an even 7-7 record good for 22 points at the fifth spot, and Minana, which finished No. 6 with a 6-8 slate and 21 points, will figure in a best-of-five affair in the first round of the play-in.

The winner of that contest then faces up against Onic to get a chance to challenge top seed AP.Bren for an upper bracket finals spot.

The MPL Philippines Season 13 playoffs kick off on Wednesday, May 22, at the SM Southmall in Las Pinas City and will run until Sunday, May 26, to determine the two teams that will represent the country in the MLBB Mid-Season Cup 2024 set during the Esports World Cup in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in June.