After a fast three series, Qiao Gu and Vici Gaming Potential have topped the 2015 LSPL Spring Playoffs and have qualified for the 2015 LPL Summer Split.

Qiao Gu swiftly closed out the upper bracket final in Wednesday's first best-of-three series while Vici Gaming Potential finally lived up to their moniker in the lower bracket final later on.

Here's the rundown on the LPL's newest teams.

Qiao Gu

If you watched Demacia Cup, you may be familiar with Qiao Gu, the team that placed third by taking out OMG, Snake, and Team WE along the way.

In today's upper bracket final, they more or less rolled over Edward Gaming's sister team, AD Gaming, to clinch their 2015 LPL Summer berth. In Game 1, ADG decided to experiment with an AD Carry Gnar, and in Game 2, Qiao Gu punished them for attempting to contest early dragons with late game scaling solo laners.

Above: Why your Hecarim will hate you for playing AD Carry Gnar

It's important to be clear that good results against top teams in third party events isn't a new phenomenon for LSPL teams. WE Academy accomplished this before changing their support, and Team King consistently placed in the Top 2 or 3 in the offseason, only ever losing to Edward Gaming with one exception in World Gamemaster Tournament. Neither of them did well in the LPL. In fact, Snake, a team straight out of LSPL that trumped many top LPL teams this season, had results ranging from deplorable to just okay in the offseason.

Upon qualifying tonight, however, Qiao Gu's jungler Swift declared that the team plans to challenge Edward Gaming for the top spot of LPL.

Yes, I did say Swift, as in Baek "Swift" Dae-Hoon from CJ Entus last year. Jungler rankers placed him as a Top 3 jungler in 2014, and he'll be joining LPL with DanDy, KaKAO, and most likely a rejuvenated Spirit, this Summer.

Swift is the core of Qiao Gu, making most of the plays and responsible for a lot of their dragon control. Fans of the North American LCS last year will at least recognize one of his bottom lane teammates, Zhang "TcT" Han-Wei, previously known as Mor.

TcT returns to LPL with the same bottom lane partner from when he was on LMQ Tian Ci in China, Yu "TnT" Rui, known in the past by many names including Ashe, Avenger, Qu1et, F1sh, Mes, and Sins. He was a highlight of LMQ's LPL lineup and is known for playing hyper carries like Vayne in awkward situations and making it work. Today, he grabbed two Sivir picks and served as an instrumental force in QG's collapse compositions.

Bao "V" Bo nearly qualified for LPL last split on Energy Pacemaker Carries, but didn't quite make the cut. He follows a tradition of carry tops, though on this team he rarely has to play the primary carry role. Today, his Gnar performance clinched Game 2.

The newest addition to the team, Korean mid laner Doinb, plays a filler role. He seems to sport a somewhat limited champion pool, but his Maokai mid lane in Demacia Cup came with surprising results, and there are likely more dimensions to him we've yet to see.

Expect QG to play a fast, team fight and skirmish heavy style driven by Swift in LPL next year. Their strategy is still in the early stages of development. They might lose some series as the opposition grows accustomed to their play, but with a jungler like Swift at the helm, they'll be contenders.

Vici Gaming Potential

I must admit, I had stopped believing in this team.

When Vici Gaming picked up DanDy and decided to move Xie "Eimy" Dan, the jungler who carried that team into LPL originally, to sister team Vici Gaming Potential, I thought he'd do it again. His heavy ganking and efficient jungle pathing stood out through his LSPL climb. The team picked up ex-Samsung Lee "Heart" Gwan-hyung, and VGP was a shoe-in.

Then I realized that VGP didn't have much in the way of carries. Ex-mid laner Apollo held lane unremarkably, but sometimes Byun "Skatch" Se-hoon, previous AD carry substitute for Samsung, wouldn't get out of laning phase. Even with Heart playing more aggressively than he has in his career as a support player, Skatch would fall to ganks or fail to keep up. Outside laning phase, he could make use of top laner Zhu "Loong" Xiao-Long's zoning for team fight presence.

At times it seemed like Loong and Eimy fought a losing battle to keep the team alive in a difficult LSPL group. I wouldn't have guessed they'd make it to LPL halfway through the split.

Then two things happened. Pi "Xuan" Xiao-Xuan moved to the starting lineup as mid laner, creating a better play-making bridge for Skatch's late game. Patch 5.6 hit. Today, Skatch played better on Jinx than he has on any champion for the entirety of LSPL. Game 2 against AD Gaming Ray's Hecarim may have resulted in him getting caught more often, but he still beat the 10 CS per minute mark at all parts of the match and shredded through the rest of ADG's lineup with ease.

A new style for VGP seems to have clicked just in time to get them into LPL for the 2015 Summer split. They've taken to the scaling hyper carry meta with vigor and knocked both Legend Dragon and AD Gaming into the Promotion Tournament today, taking the second auto promoted seed up for grabs. By the time LPL rolls around, VGP will be sold and rebranded according to the one LPL team per organization rule.

Let's hope, regardless of what name they go by, VGP can keep this cohesion, and even if there are roster changes, Eimy has now proven twice that he's an LPL caliber jungler. For the betterment of competitive League of Legends in China, let him play.

Qiao Gu and Vici Gaming Potential will face each other tomorrow for first place in 2015 LSPL Spring as well as bragging rights.

As for third place LSPL team AD Gaming, fourth place Legend Dragon, fifth place Young Glory, and sixth place KxHappy, they still have a chance to grab their own LPL berth. They're all invited to the promotion tournament with the bottom four LPL teams where two more spots are up for grabs.

We'll find out if more fresh faces or wounded veterans will accompany Qiao Gu and Vici Gaming Potential into 2015 LPL Summer.

The Promotion Tournament will run alongside LPL Playoffs starting April 14 at 13:00 China Time (1 a.m. Eastern).

Kelsey Moser is a staff writer for the Score eSports and Chinese League of Legends enthusiast. You can follow her on Twitter.