Garena Premier League

Garena Premier League

Sport	League of Legends
Inaugural season	2012
Owner(s)	Garena
No. of teams	16
Countries	Southeast Asia
Most recent champion(s)	Bangkok Titans
Most titles	Taipei Assassins
Qualification	Promotion tournament
Sponsor(s)	Riot Games
Related competitions	League of Legends Master Series

The Garena Premier League (GPL) is a professional League of Legends league with teams in Southeast Asia. It was founded in 2012. The opening event took place on May 5 with Riot's CEO Brandon Beck, VP of Gaming Dustin Beck, Taiwanese game designer Jeff Lin, and Nikasaur attending personally. The league currently consists of twelve teams playing in two groups of six. Most games are played online.^[1] The top four teams of both groups advance to the playoffs, which are held in a best-of-5 single elimination system.^[2]

In late 2014 Garena split teams from Taiwan, Macau, and Hong Kong into their own league, the League of Legends Masters Series, which began play in Spring 2015. Following the changes, the Garena Premier League no longer sends any teams directly to the League of Legends World Championship.^[3]

Results

Seasons

Team League	Date	Winner	Runner-Up
2012 GPL Season 1	2012 (2012-05-18 – 2012-11-17)	Taipei Assassins	Singapore Sentinels
2013 GPL Spring	2013 (2013-01-04 – 2013-04-21)	Taipei Assassins	Singapore Sentinels
2013 GPL Summer	2013 (2013-05-10 – 2013-08-11)	ahq e-Sports Club	Singapore Sentinels
2014 GPL Winter	2013/14 (2013-10-30 – 2014-01-11)	Taipei Assassins	Taipei Snipers
2014 GPL Spring	2014 (2014-02-12 – 2014-04-06)	Taipei Assassins	ahq e-Sports Club
2014 GPL Summer	2014 (2014-06-11 – 2014-08-16)	Taipei Assassins	ahq e-Sports Club
2015 GPL Spring	2015 (2015-03-04 – 2015-04-10)	Saigon Fantastic Five	Bangkok Titans
2015 GPL Summer	2015 (2015-06-13 – 2015-08-20)	Bangkok Titans	Saigon Jokers

Other Events

Team League	Date	Winner	Runner-Up
2012 GPL Opening Event	2012 (2012-05-05)	Taipei Assassins	Singapore Sentinels
2013 GPL Championship	2013 (2013-08-29)	ahq e-Sports Club	Taipei Assassins

References

↑ "News". Garena LoL Esports. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
↑ Kaiwei (May 2013). "Garena League of Legends Premier League". Counter Logic Gaming. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
↑ "The Philippines just lost another chance to compete in one of the biggest esports events of the year". Inquirer.net. July 2015. Retrieved August 9, 2015.

External links

Official website

Professional League of Legends competition

Competitions
(List)

World Championship	Season 1 (2011) Season 2 (2012) Season 3 (2013) 2014 2015

Regional leagues	China: League of Legends Pro League (LPL) Europe & North America: League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) Southeast Asia: Garena Premier League (GPL) Korea: League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau: League of Legends Master Series (LMS)

Other tournaments	DreamHack Electronic Sports League (ESL) e-Sports World Championship Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) Major League Gaming (MLG) World Cyber Games (WCG) (defunct)

Notable players

Active	Søren Bjerg (Bjergsen) Enrique Cedeño Martinez (xPeke) Alex Chu (Xpecial) Henrik Hansen (Froggen) Hai Lam (Hai) Kurtis Lau Wai-kin (Toyz) Bora Kim (YellOwStaR) Yiliang Peng (Doublelift) Lee Sang-hyeok (Faker)

Retired	Steve Arhancet (LiQuiD112) Andy Dinh (Reginald) Dan Dinh (Dan Dinh) Marcus Hill (Dyrus)

Riot Games

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