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　　Two weeks ago in the Demacia Cup, Team RM, the tenth place LoL Secondary Pro League (the official Challenger League in China) knocked LGD Gaming, the sixth place LPL team out of the bracket. Demand for more LPL and LSPL team faceoffs has been growing, and whether by coincidence or design, two additional massive scale Chinese League of Legends tournaments have been launched.

　　The X Championship Season I, is already under way, and the prize pool stacks up to around $72,000. This tournament begins with seven double elimination groups consisting of eight LPL teams, including tOMG, Edward Gaming, World Elite, and StarHorn Royal Club, seeded separately (with one exception) and 20 other teams seeded at random. These double elimination groups are decided based upon best of threes, and the winners of the upper and lower brackets will advance to the next round.

　　In the second round, fourteen teams are randomly assigned to two groups for round robin best of twos. Determining who advances to the next stage depends upon whether or not 2014 Riot Games World Championship teams are in round two. If they are, then all of these qualifying teams advance to Round Three automatically. The final spots are determined by success in the second round.

　　From there, the top eight teams of the tournament participate in a best of two knockout stage leading up to a best of five finals.

　　The games have already begun, and you can find the brackets here where StarHorn Royal Club and World Elite Academy have remain in the upper brackets of their groups. See below for the schedule (games take place every day through August at 6:00am PDT) and the list of teams in each group. You can watch the games on the PC Games XCS stream page, and you can find VODs of games already played on Youku.

　　The NEST begins with an eight group bracket stage qualifier consisting of sixteen teams each for a total of 128 invited Chinese League of Legends teams. These teams include the eight LPL and sixteen LSPL teams as well as TGA Grand Prix favorites like Hangong Club who all have to fight from square one to advance.

　　Qualifier matches are best of threes, and they take place through August. You can find the brackets on the NEST website. Only one team from each bracket will emerge victorious to duke it out in October.

　　NEST Qualifier matches can be watched here, with the schedule for the first match, Edward Gaming and Acfun, calibrated to your time zone.

　　With more exposure to the top teams, the overall talent of China will rise, but will the extra competition benefit LPL teams on Riot's 2014 World Championship or distract them from the prize?