League of Legends Pro League

Tencent League of Legends Pro League

Sport	League of Legends
Founded	2013
Owner(s)	Tencent
Motto	Heroes Beyond the Peak
No. of teams	12
Country	Zhabei District, Shanghai, China
Venue(s)	Shanghai Electric Industrial Park
Most recent champion(s)	EDward Gaming
Most titles	EDward Gaming (4 times)
Sponsor(s)	wywk, Gigabyte, Intel, RACCUA, Logitec
Relegation to	League of Legends Secondary Pro League
Official website	lol.tga.plu.cn (Chinese)

Tencent League of Legends Pro League (LPL) (simplified Chinese: 英雄联盟职业联赛; traditional Chinese: 英雄聯盟職業聯賽; pinyin: yīng xióng lián méng zhí yè lián sài) is the top level League of Legends league in China.The first season of the LPL was the 2013 Spring season. The top three finishers of the playoff tournament receive automatic bids to the League of Legends World Championship. Playoffs are an eight team single elimination with each step a best-of-five series. The total prize pool is ¥2,350,000. In 2014 Riot Games began providing an English language broadcast.^[1] The format is modeled after the League of Legends Champions Korea format in South Korea.^[2] In September 2015 it was announced that Riot Games was in negotiations with Tencent to take over operations of the league.^[3]

Format

For the 2015 Spring season the LPL adopted a best of two series. Teams play a double round robin.

Participants

Qualified Teams (12)
Qualified via 2015 LPL Spring (8)
EDward Gaming	Invictus Gaming
Snake eSports	LGD Gaming
OMG	Team WE
Team King	Vici Gaming
Qualified via 2015 LSPL Summer Promotion (2)
Masters 3	Gamtee
Qualified via 2015 LSPL Playoffs (2)
Qiao Gu	Vici Potenital Gaming

Past winners

Split	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
2013 Spring	Invictus Gaming	Oh My God	Team WE	Positive Energy
2013 Summer	Oh My God	Royal Club	Positive Energy	Team WE
2014 Spring	EDward Gaming	Invictus Gaming	Oh My God	Team WE
2014 Summer	EDward Gaming	Oh My God	Star Horn Royal Club	LGD Gaming
2015 Spring	EDward Gaming	LGD Gaming	Invictus Gaming	Snake eSports
2015 Summer	LGD Gaming	Qiao Gu Reapers	Invictus Gaming	EDward Gaming
2016 Spring	Royal Never Give Up	EDward Gaming	Team WE	Qiao Gu Reapers
2016 Summer	EDward Gaming	Royal Never Give Up	I May	Team WE

See also

• League of Legends Championship Series, equivalent competition in North America and Europe

References

1. "Riot planning English broadcast of the LPL".
2. Śmigiel, Kacper (June 26, 2015). "6 reasons why China's LPL picked up Korea's OGN format".
3. Moser, Kelsey (September 8, 2015). "Riot Games in talks to assume control of LoL tournaments in China". Retrieved September 11, 2015.

External links

• Official website (Chinese)