League of Legends Pro League


The League of Legends Pro League is the top-level professional league for League of Legends 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. The format is modeled after the League of Legends Champions Korea format in South Korea. In September 2015 it was announced that Riot Games was in negotiations with Tencent to take over operations of the league.

Format

For the 2015 Spring season the LPL adopted a best of two series. Teams play a double round robin.
As of 2017 and 2018, the league will adopt the EU LCS format for selecting regular season groups. 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 2019 Spring Split, the LPL will resume the following format:
Team1st2nd3rd4th
Edward Gaming5211
Royal Never Give Up3410
Invictus Gaming1242
Oh My God1211
JD Gaming1110
LGD Gaming1101
Positive Energy1100
Team WE1024
FunPlus Phoenix1020