Glory Professional League

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. 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 round-round robin, and the results of the second round determine playoff seeding.

At the end of the first round-robin:
 * 1) The sixth-placed team of League S, League A and League B are relegated to the lower leagues.
 * 2) The winners of League A, League B and League C are promoted to the upper leagues.
 * 3) 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:
 * 1) The top four teams of League S enter Upper Bracket Round 3.
 * 2) The remaining two teams of League S, as well as the top four teams of League A, enter Upper Bracket Round 2.
 * 3) The remaining two teams of League A, as well as the top two teams of League B, enter Upper Bracket Round 3.
 * 4) The remaining four teams of League B enter Lower Bracket Round 2.
 * 5) The top four teams of League C enter Lower Bracket Round 1.

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.

At the end of every Major; the bottom two teams of League C participate in the Challengers Playoff, together with the top two teams of the Glory Challengers League.