After several hurdles surrounding their travel docs, Myanmar's Mobile Legends: Bang Bang team Burmese Ghouls are now in Manila for the M5 World Championships.

This comes days after a rep from the country's esports federation said the team's attendance was in limbo because three of the players didn’t have passports.

Burmese Ghouls last qualified for a world series in Singapore, where they finished first runner-up to Bren Esports at the 2021 M2 World Championships, which gave a spark of hope for its growing MLBB scene.

This momentum would soon come to a hard stop when Myanmar was rattled by the coup, paralyzing much of the activity in the country, including its esports scene. Myanmar also missed a chance to mount qualifiers for the M3 World Championships held later that year as a result.

Myanmar squad Falcon managed to book a MSC berth in Malaysia last 2022, and a world championship slot early 2023 in Jakarta.

Burmese Ghouls qualified for M5 with a new group, but documentation issues arose amid rising tensions in their country.

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Burmese Ghouls last Monday announced that they finally secured their passports and were flying to Manila.

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Burmese Ghouls will face AP Bren to open the entire M5 at the EVM Convention Center.