2024 LPL season
The 2024 LPL season was the 12th season of the League of Legends Pro League, a Chinese professional esports league for the video game League of Legends. Similar to its previous yearly splits, the 2024 LPL season will be divided into two splits: Spring and Summer. The Spring Split began on 22 January and will end on 20 April 2024 for the Grand Finals. Meanwhile, the Summer Split began on 1 June and ended with the Summer Grand Finals on 30 August.
Bilibili Gaming was crowned the 2024 Spring Champions after defeating Top Esports 3–1 in the Grand Finals rematch of the Upper Bracket Finals. This was Bilibili Gaming's first organizational title under the name Bilibili Gaming in the LPL., and both Bilibili Gaming and Top Esports qualified for the 2024 Mid-Season Invitational. Bilibili Gaming once again led the Summer regular season and won their second consecutive domestic title over Weibo Gaming in a 3–0 sweep.
Bilibili Gaming directly qualified to the 2024 World Championship by winning the Summer split, while Top Esports qualified via Championship Points. Through the regional finals, LNG Esports and Weibo Gaming also qualified, as the third and fourth LPL seeds respectively.
Format
The Spring Split will have seventeen competing teams during the Regular Season. Each team will participate in the single Round-robin tournament where all matches will be played in best-of-threes. Similarly to its previous seasons, the top ten teams will advance to the playoff bracket with the Top 2 seeded teams advancing to the four-team Double-elimination tournament bracket while the remaining eight teams will be competing in a single-elimination king-of-the hill tournament with only the top two teams from these competitions advancing to complete the four-team double elimination bracket. The champion for Spring 2024 will qualify for the 2024 Mid-Season Invitational's group stage while the runner-up will qualify for the 2024 Mid-Season Invitational's play-in stage.The Summer split's format is split into three stages. The first stage will consist of a double round-robin group stage where all seventeen teams are split into three groups of 4 and a group of 5. This first stage will implement the "Fearless Draft", a drafting format seen in China's LDL developmental league where Champions from previous games in the best-of-three series are banned from the remaining games. The top two teams in each group and the third place team in the five-team group qualify for the "ascend" group in the second stage, while the rest qualify for the "nirvana" group. The second stage will see the teams in each of the groups face each other in single round-robin regular draft competition in best-of-threes. The top two seeded teams in the ascend group advance to the four-team double elimination tournament bracket as usual, while the remaining ascend group teams and the top four nirvana group teams advance to the single-elimination, king-of-the hill tournament. The bottom two ascend group teams and the top four nirvana group teams will have to contest an additional match. As per usual, the champion for Summer 2024 will qualify for the 2024 World Championship as China's number one seed.