Glory Professional League
Current season, competition or edition: 2113 GPL season | |
| Game | Glory of Masters |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2100 |
| No. of teams | 24 |
| Country | Poafmersia |
| Venue(s) | Various |
| Most recent champion(s) | Mancodas Gaming (2nd title) (Fiskadaha Major 2112) |
| Most titles | ACG (6 titles) |
| Qualification | Promotion System |
| Level on pyramid | 1 |
| Relegation to | Glory Challengers League |
| Domestic cup(s) | Glory of Masters Championship |
| Related competitions | GPLM |
Glory of Masters Professional League (GPL) is the primary competition for Glory of Masters esports in Poafmersia. Contested by twenty-four teams, the league runs five major splits per year and serves as a direct route to qualification for the annual Glory of Masters Championship. The GPL is administered by the PeSA.
The competition was founded in 2100 as Poafmersia's first esports championship, this was also the first competition organised by the PeSA following the creation of the association. The PeSA started off with twelve teams, later expanded to fifteen teams, later twenty teams, before capping off at twenty-four teams and the creation of the promotion and relegation system. The league is for the computer version of Glory of Masters, a homegrown MOBA.
Format
The Glory Professional League is now being contested by twenty-four teams. The League is split into five Majors every year - namely, the Sarim Major, the Mancodas Major, the Dalaris Major, the Holhot Major, and the Fiskadaha Major. The results of the Major, converted into the Championship Points system, determine qualification to the Championship Finals
Majors
For every Major, teams are split into four mini-league, namely League S, League A, League B, League C. Teams play two separate rounds of single round-robin, and the results of the second round determine playoff seeding.
At the end of the first round-robin:
- The sixth-placed team of League S, League A and League B are relegated to the lower leagues.
- The winners of League A, League B and League C are promoted to the upper leagues.
- The fifth-placed team of League S, League A and League B will play a single best-of-seven playoff against the runners-up of League A, League B and League C respectively. The winner of the playoff will go to the higher league for the second round-robin.
For the playoffs:
- The top four teams of League S enter Upper Bracket Round 3.
- The remaining two teams of League S, as well as the top four teams of League A, enter Upper Bracket Round 2.
- The remaining two teams of League A, as well as the top two teams of League B, enter Upper Bracket Round 3.
- The remaining four teams of League B and the top two teams of League C enter Lower Bracket Round 1.
For the playoffs, teams participate in a double-elimination bracket. Teams who lose a game in the Upper Bracket fall into the Lower Bracket; teams that lose another game in the Lower Bracket will be eliminated. A sample of the bracket can be found below:
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| Lower round 1 | Lower round 2 | Lower round 3 | Lower round 4 | Lower round 5 | Lower semis | Lower final | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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At the end of the round-robin for the Mancodas Major, the Holhot Major and the Fiskadaha Major (Major 2, 4, and 5), the bottom two teams of League C participate in the Challengers Playoff, together with the top two teams of the Glory Challengers League at the end of the corresponding Minor).
For the next major, teams are seeded in the respective leagues using their position in the playoffs. Because 4 teams are eliminated at the Lower Bracket Round 1, a separate double round-robin bracket will be done to determine the 17th and 18th placed teams, who will be placed in League B; while the 19th and the 20th placed teams will be placed in League C.
Championship Points
For qualification into the Championship Finale, the following system is used:
| Position | Points |
|---|---|
| 1st (Major Winner) | Direct Qualification |
| 2nd (Lost in Grand Finals) | 20 |
| 3rd (Lost in Lower Bracket Finals) | 15 |
| 4th (Lost in Lower Bracket Semis) | 12 |
| Joint-5th (Lost in Lower Bracket Round 5) | 10 |
| Joint-7th (Lost in Lower Bracket Round 4) | 8 |
| Joint-9th (Lost in Lower Bracket Round 3) | 3 |
| Joint-13th (Lost in Lower Bracket Round 2) | 1 |
A total of sixteen teams will qualify for the Championship Finale. This includes the following:
- 5 Major Winners (should a team win more than one major, they will be replaced by another team by Championship Points)
- Highest-ranked team in Championship Table that did not win a Major
- 4 Round 1 Playoff Winners (Straight Best-of-seven pairwise between top 8 teams in championship points)
- 6 Round 2 Playoff Winners (A single round-robin Best-of-one round-robin between 4 losers of Round 1, and next 6 teams by championship points)