The top four teams of group stage are advanced to the playoff, which are held in a best-of-5 single elimination system.

[1] In late 2014, Riot and Garena split teams from Taiwan, Macau, and Hong Kong into their own league, the LMS, which began play in Spring 2015.

[2] Following the changes, the GPL no longer sent teams directly to the League of Legends World Championship group stage.

The GPL became part of the International Wildcard tournament, along with CBLoL (Brazil), OPL (Oceania), LCL (CIS), LJL (Japan), TCL (Turkey), LLN (Latin America North) and CLS (Latin America South), and would compete to represent the Wildcard regions in the play in stages at the Mid-Season Invitational and World Championship.

The winner of VCS will qualify for Mid-Season Invitational and World Championship without taking part in the GPL.