Pacific Championship Series


The Pacific Championship Series is a professional esports league for League of Legends players competing in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Southeast Asia. Its creation was officially announced by Riot Games on 19 December 2019, after Garena, which ran the League of Legends Master Series and League of Legends SEA Tour, announced in September that it was planning to merge the two leagues. The PCS has ten teams: four from Taiwan, two from Hong Kong, and four from Southeast Asia.

History

Prior to the PCS

The first professional esports league for League of Legends players in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia was the Garena Premier League, which ran from 2012 to mid-2018. Teams from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau were given their own league, the League of Legends Master Series, in late 2014. Three years later, the Vietnam Championship Series was upgraded to a Tier 1 tournament and Vietnam became its own competitive region separate from the rest of Southeast Asia. The GPL was rebranded as the League of Legends SEA Tour in mid-2018.

Formation

Garena announced on 25 September 2019 that it was intending to merge the LMS and LST into a single league, the details of which would be released near the end of the year. On 19 December, Riot Games announced the name of the new league, the Pacific Championship Series, and a list of nine of the ten teams that would compete in it. Berjaya Dragons was announced as the last team joining the PCS on 17 January 2020.

Inaugural season

The 2020 season was postponed until further notice on 29 January due to the COVID-19 outbreak. It was later announced on 18 February that the 2020 season would officially begin on 29 February.
On 13 February it was announced that G-Rex had disbanded its League of Legends team and forfeited its spot in the PCS as a result of internal restructuring by their parent company Emperor Esports Stars. Five days later, Machi Esports was announced as G-Rex's replacement.

Teams

Ten teams were selected by Riot Games as permanent franchise partners of the PCS. Taiwan, Hong Kong and four Southeast Asian countries are represented in the league.

Results

Number of top four finishes

By team

By country