Current season, competition or edition: 2024 LPL season | |
Game | League of Legends |
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Founded | 2013 |
Owner(s) | Tencent |
Motto | "Crazy is our game" (无畏竞巅峰) |
No. of teams | 17 |
Country | China |
Venue(s) | Shanghai (for most teams) Beijing (for JD Gaming) Hangzhou (for LGD Gaming) Shenzhen (for Ninjas in Pyjamas) Suzhou (for LNG Esports) Xi'an (for Team WE) |
Most recent champion(s) | Bilibili Gaming (1st title) (Spring 2024) |
Most titles | Edward Gaming (6 titles) |
Sponsor(s) | Mercedes Benz, Li-Ning, Momchilovtsi, JingDong, War Horse Energy Drink, Wahaha Soda Drink, Lenovo, Intel, TT Yuyin, TGIF, Oppo, Mobil Oil, TCL, Tongcheng, Sānjīn xīguā shuāng, Durex |
Domestic cup(s) | Demacia Cup |
International cup(s) | World Championship Mid Season Invitational |
Related competitions | League of Legends Development League |
Official website | lpl |
League of Legends Pro League | |||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 英雄联盟职业联赛 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 英雄聯盟職業聯賽 | ||||||
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The League of Legends Pro League (LPL) 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. [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] In 2019,Riot Games and Tencent created joint venture,TJ Sports,to focus on all League of Legends esports business in China,including tournament organizing,talent management,and venues. [4]
For the 2015 spring season the LPL adopted a best-of-two series. Teams compete in a double round robin.
From 2017 to 2018,the league used the same format as the EU LCS for selecting regular season groups. [5] The highest ranked teams from the previous split headed the groups with other teams being selected. Matches were also best-of-three.
The LPL has used the following format from 2019 to 2021:
The LPL has used the following format from 2021:
The finalists of the spring split represents China at the Mid-Season Invitational. The winner of the summer split (seed 1),the team with the most championship points (seed 2),and the winner and runners-up of the regional qualifier (seeds 3 &4) qualify for the World Championship.
Team | ID | Line up | Head coach | ||||
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Top laner | Jungle | Mid laner | Bot laner | Support | |||
Anyone's Legend | AL | Hery | Croco Relife | Shanks | Hope | Kael | Joker |
Bilibili Gaming | BLG | Bin | XUN | knight | Elk | ON LvMao | BigWei |
EDward Gaming | EDG | Ale Solokill | JieJie Monki | Fisher | Leave Thesnake | Vampire | Clearlove |
FunPlus Phoenix | FPX | Xiaolaohu | mikyway Moyan | Care | Deokdam | Life | Sin |
Invictus Gaming | IG | Wen YSKM | Tianzhen | Cryin | Ahn xiaoyueji | Wink | Loong |
JD Gaming | JDG | Flandre sheer | Kanavi | Yagao | Ruler | MISSING | WarHouse |
LGD Gaming | LGD | Burdol | Meteor | haichao | Kepler Shaoye | JinJiao | 1874 Chelizi |
LNG Esports | LNG | Zika | Weiwei | Scout | GALA | Hang Mark | Crescent |
Ninjas in Pyjamas | NIP | shanji | Aki | Rookie | Photic | Zhuo Zero | Maizijian |
Oh My God | OMG | Cube | xiaofang | Angel | Able Starry | ppgod | Noname |
Rare Atom | RA | Xiaoxu | naiyou | VicLa | Assum | ShiauC Zorah | Shine |
Royal Never Give Up | RNG | Breathe | Wei | Tangyuan | Lwx LP | Ming | Letme |
Team WE | WE | Wayward | Heng | FOFO | Prince Slay | Iwandi | WarHorse |
TT Gaming | TT | HOYA | Beichuan | ucal | 1xn | Feather QiuQiu | Xiaopeng |
Top Esports | TES | 369 | Tian | Creme | JackeyLove | Meiko Niket | Despa1r |
Ultra Prime | UP | Decade zs | H4cker | Yuekai | Doggo | Jwei | Xiaobai |
Weibo Gaming | WBG | Zdz | Xiaohao | Xiaohu | Light | Crisp Erha | Daeny |
Year | Split | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Qualified for the World Championship | |||
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Seed 1 | Seed 2 | Seed 3 | Seed 4 | ||||||
2013 | Spring | Oh My God | Positive Energy | Invictus Gaming | Team WE | Royal Club | OMG | — | — |
Summer | Positive Energy | Oh My God | Team WE | Royal Club | |||||
2014 | Spring | EDward Gaming | Invictus Gaming | Oh My God | Team WE | EDward Gaming | Star Horn Royal Club | OMG | |
Summer | EDward Gaming | Oh My God | Star Horn Royal Club | LGD Gaming | |||||
2015 | Spring | EDward Gaming | LGD Gaming | Invictus Gaming | Snake Esports | LGD Gaming | EDward Gaming | Invictus Gaming | |
Summer | LGD Gaming | Qiao Gu Reapers | Invictus Gaming | EDward Gaming | |||||
2016 | Spring | Royal Never Give Up | EDward Gaming | Team WE | Qiao Gu Reapers | EDward Gaming | Royal Never Give Up | I May | |
Summer | EDward Gaming | Royal Never Give Up | I May | Team WE | |||||
2017 | Spring | Team WE | Royal Never Give Up | EDward Gaming | Oh My God | EDward Gaming | Royal Never Give Up | Team WE | |
Summer | EDward Gaming | Royal Never Give Up | Invictus Gaming | Team WE | |||||
2018 | Spring | Royal Never Give Up | EDward Gaming | Rogue Warriors | Invictus Gaming | Royal Never Give Up | Invictus Gaming † | EDward Gaming | |
Summer | Royal Never Give Up | Invictus Gaming | JD Gaming | Rogue Warriors | |||||
2019 | Spring | Invictus Gaming | JD Gaming | FunPlus Phoenix | Topsports Gaming | FunPlus Phoenix † | Royal Never Give Up | Invictus Gaming | |
Summer | FunPlus Phoenix | Royal Never Give Up | Top Esports | Bilibili Gaming | |||||
2020 | Spring | JD Gaming | Top Esports | FunPlus Phoenix | Invictus Gaming | Top Esports | JD Gaming | Suning | LGD Gaming |
Summer | Top Esports | JD Gaming | Suning | LGD Gaming | |||||
2021 | Spring | Royal Never Give Up | FunPlus Phoenix | Edward Gaming | Top Esports | Edward Gaming † | FunPlus Phoenix | Royal Never Give Up | LNG Esports |
Summer | Edward Gaming | FunPlus Phoenix | Team WE | LNG Esports | |||||
2022 | Spring | Royal Never Give Up | Top Esports | Victory Five | JD Gaming | JD Gaming | Top Esports | Edward Gaming | Royal Never Give Up |
Summer | JD Gaming | Top Esports | Edward Gaming | LNG Esports | |||||
2023 | Spring | JD Gaming | Bilibili Gaming | Edward Gaming | Oh My God | JD Gaming | Bilibili Gaming | LNG Esports | Weibo Gaming |
Summer | JD Gaming | LNG Esports | Bilibili Gaming | Top Esports | |||||
2024 | Spring | Bilibili Gaming | Top Esports | JD Gaming | Ninjas in Pyjamas | ||||
Summer | Bilibili Gaming | Weibo Gaming | Top Esports | LNG Esports |
Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Total |
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Edward Gaming | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 13 |
Royal Never Give Up | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
Invictus Gaming | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
JD Gaming | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
Bilibili Gaming | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
Top Esports | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 8 |
Oh My God | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
FunPlus Phoenix | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
Team WE | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
LGD Gaming | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Positive Energy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
LNG Esports | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Ninjas in Pyjamas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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