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  China
Venue(s) Shanghai Electric Industrial Park, Shanghai
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.

As of 2017, the league will adopt the EU LCS format for selecting regular season groups.[4] The highest ranked teams from the previous split will head the groups with other teams being selected. This also means the format now includes the best of 3 matches.

For the 2017 Summer Split the LPL will resume the following format:

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

League of Legends Pro League Summer 2017

Position Team Split Games
1st DAN Gaming 3-1 6-2
2nd EDward Gaming 3-1 6-2
3rd Team WE 2-1 5-3
4th Invictus Gaming 1-2 3-5
5th Snake Esports 1-2 2-5
6th IMay 0-3 0-6
Position Team Split Games
1st OMG 4-0 8-2
2nd NewBee 2-1 5-4
3rd Royal Never Give Up 2-1 4-4
4th LGD Gaming 1-2 3-4
5th Suning Gaming 1-2 4-5
6th JD Gaming 0-4 3-8

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
2017 Spring Team WE Royal Never Give Up EDward Gaming Oh My God

See also

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.
  4. ↑ "The LCS, LPL & LCK 2017 Summer Formats". June 2017.
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