| Aces Pro Bren Esports | |
| Short Name: | AP.Bren |
| City: | Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines |
| Location: | Southeast Asia |
| Owner: | Mr.Ap |
| Colors: | Yellow Black |
| Manager: | Mr.Hansen |
| Partners: | Synergy88[1] [2] Game.ly ASUS Philippines NOW Corporation XSplit PopTV Globe Telecom Team Falcons |
| Sport Label: | Divisions |
| Sport: | Hearthstone Clash Royale Overwatch Arena of Valor League of Legends PUBG Tekken 7 Rules of Survival Valorant |
| Fanclub: | Hive |
| Championships: | MSC 2018 M2 World Championship M5 World Championship |
| Titles: | MPL-PH S6 MPL-PH S12 |
Aces Pro Bren Esports (formerly Bren Esports), commonly known as AP Bren, is a Southeast Asian professional esports organization based in the Philippines. It has competitive teams in , CS:GO, PUBG, League of Legends, Overwatch, Hearthstone, Clash Royale, Arena of Valor, Rules of Survival, Valorant, and Tekken 7.[3] In the Philippine esports league The Nationals, the team competes as Bren EPro. The organization was founded on 16 August 2017 by Bernard "Bren" Chong who is part of the Chong clan that owns World Balance.[4]
In July 2023, the esports team was bought by Aces Pro Corp. replacing the longtime chief executive officer of Bren, Bernard Chong with Jean Alphonse “AJ” Ponce.[5] The newly-acquired team adopts its current name.[6]
On 1 October 2018, Bren Esports participated at the Arena of Valor tournament along with four team from Singapore, Malaysia and fellow Filipino team Maxbox Gaming in Philippines for the semi and grand finals of Arena of Valor's Cup Season 3.[7] [8]
Bren Esports's Mobile Legends team competes in the local tournaments for the MPL.
On 22 July 2018, Bren Esports acquired the full Aether Main roster which consisted of YellyHaze, Pein, Ribo, Yuji, Coco and 666. The 6-man roster won the team's first championship title on 29 July 2018 at the (MSC) 2018 held at the Jakarta International Expo in Indonesia.[9] [10]
From 12 January – 13 January 2019, the eight Filipino participant teams gathered at the Ayala Malls Circuit Makati for the Season 3 of MPL (2019) which was held at Makati, Philippines.[11] [12]
On 17 January 2019, 666 left the roster and was later replaced by Ejhay who joined the roster on 27 February 2019. On 18 July 2019, Pein left the team and was later replaced by Teng. On 29 October, Teng, Yuji and YellyHaze's departure was announced, leaving Ribo and Coco as the two remaining members from the previous Aether Main roster.
On 10 January 2020, KarlTzy, Pheww and Lastii joined the player roster with the addition of Duckey who signs-up to become the head coach. FlapTzy later joined the team on 2 July 2020. At that time, Coco changed his role from becoming part of the official playing roster to analyst.In October 2020, they won the championship of MPL Season 6 in a best of 7 series, winning against Smart Omega Esports 4 games to 2. This was their second title since Aether Main and their first as the Bren franchise.[13] On 23 January 2021, Bren Esports were the champions for the M2 World Championships held in Singapore, winning against Burmese Ghouls 4 games to 3. The team had to climb up from the lower bracket by defeating two Indonesian powerhouse teams, RRQ Hoshi and Alter Ego to arrange a rematch against Burmese Ghouls.[14] The Bren Esports team won $140,000 from the $300,000 prize pool money, with another $3,000 awarded to the MVP of the match, Carry Karl "KarlTzy" Nepomuceno.[15]
During the Offseason on 6 December 2021, M2 World Champions MVP Karl Gabriel "KarlTzy" Nepomuceno announces his departure from Bren Esports. He has spent 4 seasons with Bren, joining in Season 5, winning a Esports Gold Medal in the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, the MPL Philippines Season 6 Champion, and M2 World Championship Finals MVP.[16] On 11 December 2021, Ejhay left the team and later became the coach for the Sunsparks MLBB team.
In June 2019, all the female members of its team got third place in the Female Esports League of Mobile Legends (FSL) which was held at Singapore.[17] [18] Also in June 2019, Bren Esports participated in MSC 2019 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.[19] On the first day of competition, Bren Esports beat the Team Resolution of Myanmar.[20] In the second day of competition, team Overclockers of Vietnam defeated Bren Esports causing them to be eliminated.
In the build up for the MPL Philippines Season 13 playoffs, MPL Philippines and the AP Bren organization announced the partnership between AP Bren and Team Falcons prior to the playoffs and the subsequent MSC 2024 in Riyadh. According to reports, the Saudi Arabian-based organization approached AP Bren first in order to align both organization's goals and made sure that the partnership was mutually beneficial for both parties.[21]
| 2018 | Season 2 | 7–2 | 15–5 | +10 | colspan="2" | ||
| 2019 | Season 3 | 8–1 | 17–7 | +10 | 7th-8th Place | colspan="2" | |
| Season 4 | 4–5 | 9–12 | -3 | ||||
| 2020 | Season 5 | 8–1 | 16–4 | +12 | colspan="2" | ||
| Season 6 | 12–1 | 24–4 | +20 | ||||
| 2021 | Season 7 | 8–5 | 19–14 | +5 | colspan="2" | ||
| Season 8 | 5–9 | 12–21 | -9 | colspan="2" | |||
| 2022 | Season 9 | 5–9 | 11–20 | -9 | colspan="2" | ||
| Season 10 | 9–5 | 20–16 | +4 | ||||
| 2023 | Season 11 | 11–3 | 23–9 | +14 | colspan="2" | ||
| Season 12 | 7–7 | 18–5 | +3 | ||||
| 2024 | Season 13 | 11–3 | 24–8 | +16 | To be determined | ||
| Season 14 | To be determined | ||||||
In September 2021, Bren Esports originally qualified for the 2021 Valorant Champions Tour: Stage 3 Masters in Berlin as the champions of the Southeast Asia Challengers Playoffs, but were unable to secure travel visas for the LAN event due to the national restrictions brought by the COVID-19 pandemic.[22] The team was later acquired by another esports organization, Team Secret.[23]
1. Played under Aether Main name during MSC 2018.