Image: Team Flash, Ninjas in Pyjamas
Together, Team Flash and Ninjas in Pyjamas helped put Singapore on the map in MLBB esports.
Singaporean Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) organisation Team Flash officially announced the end of their six-month partnership with Ninjas in Pyjamas (NiP), joining two other joint ventures organisations. The team already showed signs of the breakup earlier this month in a birthday wish post for 
Jaymark Aaron “Hadess” Lazaro, which featured the player wear a jersey without the NiP logo.
Their partnership was a fruit of the joint venture program enacted by the Esports World Cup (EWC) last year to help develop rising esports organisations. However, the new Esports World Cup regulations for this year forbade joint ventures teams to be eligible for the EWC Club Championship points unless the publisher requested an exception. The rule change might have a hand in the decision of many partnered organisations to not extend their collaborations.
This regulation update adhered to the new Club program for the EWC, the EWC Foundation Club Partner Program. Forty clubs from around the world will get the chance to receive six-figure base funding from the EWCF to grow their organisation in 2025. Up to eight of these forty clubs were selected from the Championship Point tally in EWC 2024, and the rest were chosen from an open application
Team Flash and NIP weren't the first partnered teams to end their collaborations. Previously, Fnatic 
ONIC (and 
ONIC Philippines) and Falcons 
AP.Bren already announced the end of their six-month partnership for the EWC 2024. Fnatic ONIC was the first to announce in the first week of January while Falcons AP.Bren followed the next week.
Together, NIP Flash dominated the Singapore MLBB scene with their stylish out-of-meta picks and aggressive playstyle. They won back-to-back MLBB Professional League (MPL) Singapore titles along with a third place finish in the Mid Season Cup 2024. While their outing in the M6 World Championship could have been better, they succeeded in placing Singapore as one of the regions to be looked out for this year.
With NIP Flash ending their partnership, it's currently unknown whether the players will stick together or go their separate ways.
