{"id":38972,"date":"2026-09-05T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/?p=38972"},"modified":"2026-09-05T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T00:40:00","slug":"aurora-gaming-first-win-onic-perfect-mpl-ph-season-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/aurora-gaming-first-win-onic-perfect-mpl-ph-season-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Gaming Earns First MPL PH Season 18 Win; ONIC Stays Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aurora Gaming finally entered the win column in MPL Philippines Season 18<\/a> after sweeping Twisted Minds PH 2-0 to open Week 3 at Victoria Sports Tower.<\/p>\n

The M7 World Champions snapped a three-match losing streak that saw them win just one of their previous seven maps. Meanwhile, ONIC Philippines remained unbeaten after overcoming TNC Pro Team in a three-game thriller.<\/p>\n

Aurora Gaming snaps losing streak<\/h4>\n

Aurora Gaming wasted little time against Twisted Minds, taking Game 1 in nearly 17 minutes behind a strong performance from Nathanael “Nathzz” Estrologo.<\/p>\n

The veteran EXP laner finished with two kills and nine assists on Uranus while absorbing a game-high 150,000 damage. His frontline presence created enough space for Kyle “Koyl” Reyes and Jan Dominic “Domengkite” del Mundo to take over the damage output.<\/p>\n

Koyl posted a 5\/1\/6 KDA on Paquito, while Domengkite finished 2\/0\/4 on Clint as Aurora steadily pulled away from the Northern Lights.<\/p>\n

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Photo from MPL Philippines \/ Richard Esguerra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The second game was even more decisive.<\/p>\n

Aurora shut out Twisted Minds 8-0 in less than 10 minutes, with Koyl once again leading the charge on Paquito with a flawless 4\/0\/3 performance.<\/p>\n

Dylan “Light” Catipon also played a major role in the sweep, assisting in all eight Aurora kills with Rafaela. Nathzz’s Belerick and Kenneth “Yue” Tadeo’s Pharsa further disrupted Twisted Minds, who failed to secure a single major objective throughout the game.<\/p>\n

The victory improved Aurora to 1-3 in match wins and 3-6 in maps, temporarily moving them into sixth place. Twisted Minds dropped to 0-4 with a 1-8 map record, remaining at the bottom of the standings.<\/p>\n

ONIC keeps perfect record intact<\/h4>\n

Contenders ONIC Philippines, meanwhile, continued its dominant start to MPL PH Season 18 with a 2-1 victory over TNC Pro Team.<\/p>\n

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Photo from MPL Philippines \/ Richard Esguerra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TNC took the opening game behind Zehnder “Zehn” Fabugais, who delivered an MVP performance on Badang with a 0\/3\/8 KDA. His presence caught ONIC off guard and helped the Phoenixes secure the early advantage despite a strong showing from King Cyric “K1NGKONG” Perez.<\/p>\n

ONIC responded by taking control of the series in the final two games.<\/p>\n

K1NGKONG’s Hirara became a major factor in Game 2 as the Super Family forced the series into a decider. Frince Miguel “SuperFrince” Ramirez then stepped up in Game 3 to complete the reverse sweep in dominant fashion.<\/p>\n

The result gave ONIC its fifth consecutive match victory, keeping the Super Family unbeaten in MPL PH Season 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aurora Gaming finally entered the win column in MPL Philippines Season 18 after sweeping Twisted Minds PH 2-0 to open Week 3 at Victoria Sports Tower. The M7 World Champions snapped a three-match losing streak that saw them win just one of their previous seven maps. Meanwhile, ONIC Philippines remained unbeaten after overcoming TNC Pro…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":38973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6259,14352,29630,29391,6256,29629,2127,6260,8076],"class_list":["post-38972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esports","tag-aurora-gaming","tag-k1ngkong","tag-koyl","tag-mpl-ph-season-18","tag-mpl-philippines","tag-nathzz","tag-onic-philippines","tag-tnc-pro-team","tag-twisted-minds-ph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38976,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38972\/revisions\/38976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}