All the Curses KarlTzy Broke

“I DON’T BELIEVE IN CURSES,” a defiant KarlTzy told ALL-STAR just before he broke the lower-bracket curse and won the MPL Philippines Season 16 championship.

Karl “KarlTzy” Nepomuceno is the type of player who wins games and rewrites mythology in the process, usually in the span of a best-of-five, usually with the look of someone who just wants to go home, eat, and rank.

For nearly a decade, the MLBB community pinned curses on him the way ancient villagers pinned bad harvests on restless gods. If something went wrong with his team? Curse. If something went too right? Also curse. If the moon looked at him funny? Curse.

And yet here we are, in the glow of 2025, watching him torch every superstition, every pattern, every whispered “jinx” fans tried to saddle him with. It’s almost biblical, if the Bible had team fights, drafts, and junglers who smiled like they knew the ending.

1. The Champion’s Curse: The First One He Burned

In the old days, back when BREN was still BREN and everybody still said “meta” like it was a password to a secret club, there was a belief that great teams don’t repeat. The universe simply didn’t allow it. Win today, suffer tomorrow. Lift the trophy this season, crash next season.

KarlTzy didn’t get the memo. Or maybe he got it and laughed.

Season 6? He wins. World Championship M2? He wins.
The next year? He wins again—just somewhere else, with a different jersey, different teammates, same deadpan stare.

The Champion’s Curse tried to stick to him the way nerves stick to rookies. It failed. KarlTzy wasn’t allergic to winning but he was allergic to myths.

2. The Odd–Even Season Curse: Numerology, but Make It Esports

At some point, MLBB fans collectively decided that the universe runs on a calendar that specifically hates even-numbered seasons. Odd seasons? Karl pops off. Even seasons? Karl falls off.

If this sounds stupid, that’s because it is.

But fandom is fandom, and patterns, imagined or otherwise, are irresistible. So they cooked up this curse and fed it to themselves every year like spiritual pizza. Karl, meanwhile, simply played. It didn’t help that Team Liquid PH / ECHO had won only odd-numbered seasons: 11, 13, 15.

Season 2025 arrives. Team Liquid PH wins the whole damn thing, starting with Season 15. Suddenly the odd–even curse collapses like a flimsy tent in a typhoon as TLPH dismantled Aurora Gaming, which nearly swept the season, during the finals. Turns out numbers don’t matter when the guy driving is KarlTzy. And they climbed that ladder from the lower bracket, incidentally, another curse that no one seemed to have overcome, until KarlTzy and TLPH.

3. The Lower-Bracket Curse: Or, How to Make a Demon Out of a Detour

The lower bracket is where teams either find religion or get sent home. For years, KarlTzy’s teams flirted with disaster whenever they dropped into it. People began whispering: “Lower bracket? Ay, doomed na ’yan.”

Then came M2.
Bren falls to the lower bracket.
The curse cackles.
KarlTzy cracks his knuckles.

Alter Ego? Gone.
RRQ? Gone.
Burmese Ghouls? Seven-game war. The lower bracket suddenly isn’t a curse—it’s a launchpad. A crucible. A politely worded threat to the rest of the world.

From that moment on, the curse shut up, packed its bags, and never came back.

4. The Missing MSC Curse: The Final Boss

Two-time world champion. Multiple MPL titles. Countless MVPs.
But one trophy kept dodging Karl like it was playing tag with divine intervention: MSC.

Years passed. The man won everything except the one thing everyone said he should win. The “curse” narrative wrote itself.

Then 2025 happened.
Team Liquid PH goes to Riyadh, stomps through the bracket, and drops a 4–1 grand finals win on SRG OG like it’s just another Friday.

When asked about the MSC “curse,” KarlTzy turned pragmatic: “Kasi noong MSC na iyon kahit anong place mo sa tournament wala talagang lower-bracket. Sobra naging malaki yung factor na iyon kaya nanalo kami ngayon,” he told ALL-STAR.

KarlTzy finally lifts the MSC trophy—smirks, shrugs, grants the community’s wish.
The curse evaporates.

The Only Curse Left is Being Against KarlTzy

If there’s one thing left in the ruins of all these broken myths, it’s this: The only real curse now is being on the opposite side of KarlTzy’s map.

He has become the plot twist, the disruption, the punchline to every superstition. A one-man demolition of fan-fiction folklore. The kid who broke curses by refusing to believe they were ever real.

“GOAT” isn’t even the right word anymore.
He’s something else.
Something that doesn’t need luck or magic or prophecy.

Just the next game.
And the next curse to kill.