Competition system: 12 finalists will be divided into 2 groups with 6 teams in each group. Each team will play 1 against other teams in the same group. After this round of competition, the team ranked 1 will advance to the group stage. Teams ranked 3rd and 4th in the group will play 1 BO5, and the winner will challenge the second seed team of another group to compete for the last two promotion places.
The two finalists who finally advance to the group stage will be decided. After the finals, the four promotion teams will be randomly assigned to the existing group stage by lottery, and the teams in the same division will not be assigned to the same group when grouping. The top four teams in the final stage will meet the 12 team that directly participated in the group stage, and then 16 team will be divided into four groups, with four teams in each group, and each team will play two games with the same team.
The top two in each group will enter the knockout stage. In the knockout stage, eight teams, including T 1, GEN, DRX and DK from South Korea, EDG, JDG and RNG from China and LERGE from Europe, will play the quarterfinals, semi-finals and finals in turn. In the knockout stage, the competition will become a single-loss knockout system, and all competitions will be BO5. The competition will be decided by lottery on the last day of the group stage. The winning team will win the global championship in 2022.