Esports broadcasts move quickly, and casters use a lot of shorthand. Here is a plain-language glossary of the most common PUBG Mobile terms, grouped by theme.
Scoring and results
- WWCD / chicken dinner: winning a match as the last team alive.
- Placement points: points for the finishing position of a team in a match.
- Kill points: one point per elimination, by default.
- Match point: a format in which a team that reaches a set number of points must then win a match to take the title.
- Carry-over: points from earlier days that stay on the table.
- Tie-breaker: the rule that orders teams with equal points, often chicken dinners first.
- Overall: the combined standings for a multi-day tournament.
Events and formats
- Scrims: practice matches between teams, short for scrimmages.
- Custom room: a private match created with a room ID and password.
- Qualifier: an early stage that decides which teams advance.
- Group stage: the stage where teams are split into several lobbies.
- Finals: the last stage, with the best teams in one lobby.
- Lobby: the set of teams in one match, usually 16 to 25.
Roles and people
- IGL: in-game leader, the player who makes strategic calls.
- Fragger: a player focused on eliminations.
- Entry: the first player to take a fight.
- Support: a player who revives, covers and uses utility.
- Scout: a player who gathers information.
- Manager / organizer: the person who handles registration, rosters and results.
Gameplay
- Drop: where the team lands at the start.
- Hot drop: a crowded landing spot with early fights.
- Rotation: moving from one area to another as the safe zone shifts.
- Circle / zone / safe zone: the shrinking area that forces teams together.
- Blue zone: the damaging area outside the safe zone.
- Final circle: the last small zone where the winner is decided.
- Knock / down: reducing an enemy to the crawling state.
- Finish: eliminating a knocked player.
- Trade: when you eliminate the player who just knocked your teammate.
- Third-party: a team that attacks two squads already fighting.
- Teaming: breaking the rules by cooperating with another squad.
- Stream sniping: using a streamer's live feed to find their position, which is against the rules in most tournaments.
- Crate / airdrop: a supply drop with strong loot.
- Utility: grenades, smokes and flashes.
Stats
- Damage: total health removed from enemies.
- Average damage: damage divided by matches played.
- Assist: damage that helped a teammate get a kill or a knock.
- Revive: bringing a downed teammate back.
- MVP score: a combined rating used to name the most valuable player.
- UID: the permanent numeric ID of a player account.
Broadcast
- Overlay: graphics displayed over the video feed.
- Browser source: the OBS feature that displays a web page as an overlay.
- Observer / spectator: someone who watches the match to produce the broadcast.
- VOD: a recording of a past match or stream.
For the details behind these terms, see our guides on the points system, player stats and tournament formats.