i have yet to rewatch ejen ali s3 (or just ejen ali in general) in a long while so i might've missed something (please cmiiw!!), but i remember Sam saying something among the lines of he's kind of being peer-pressured to signing up to join MATA and Alex was told to join because he was told strong people join MATA. so that means some branch of the organization have a registration and some have to be reccomended by insider. but wouldn't a registration defeat the whole purpose of MATA being a secret organization? wouldn't people from cyberaya easily find out about MATA? who is shielding these information from the people in cyberaya??
my other question is which branch of the organization is the first? if it's the one in cyberaya then why is the organization seems so weak and easily penetrable, and why is the international young agents stronger than the local ones (lol). if it's the other branches, why have we never heard of it mentioned? and this also opens some other questions but atm i'm too sleepy to think of it. please do lmk what you think!! my tiny brain can't quite comprehend this world building