The League of Legends Association of Chinese Esports (LACE), Tencent Games, and LPL clubs are in talks to create an LPL reserve league in which organizations will field a second roster of players to play weekly best-of-three matches, sources have told theScore eSports. theScore sought and secured support from other sources after a public forum discussion on Chinese message board, NGA, went up covering the issue.

According to both the message board and other sources, the league would run on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, days which the LPL does not run. According to sources, the proposed reserve league would run three best-of-three series per day. The prize system currently in discussion is said to award 5,000 RMB (~$781 USD) per series victory and a 320,000 RMB (~$50,000 USD) bonus for winning the reserve league with the most series victories.

Participants in the league would be benched players (defined as players who are signed to the club but did not play in the previous week's LPL) or trial players (players only signed to the club on trial basis from solo queue). As a result, the spirit of the league would be to encourage established clubs to invest in and develop newer talent as well as create more opportunities for friendly competition.

No details have been finalized yet and it is not clear whether Riot is involved in the discussion.

A similar concept reserve league already exists in Korea, but hasn't been extremely successful. Should this LPL reserve league come to fruition in 2016, it would run on the same days as the existing League of Legends Secondary Pro League.

Kelsey Moser is a staff writer for theScore eSports. You can follow her on Twitter.