Nova Esports won PEL 2021 Season 3 ahead of The Chosen

Nova Esports won PEL 2021 Season 3, a 20 team Chinese league season that ran from 19 August to 3 October 2021 with a ¥14,400,000 pool in Xi'an. The Chosen finished second and Royal Never Give Up third on the published season prize order. Nova Esports banked ¥4,140,000 for the season, ahead of The Chosen on ¥1,180,000. The season was played in Peacekeeper Elite, the Chinese version of PUBG Mobile, under Tencent Games.

Twenty teams opened the regular season on 19 August 2021, playing five weeks of four day rounds with only weekly final points counting toward the weekly ranking. The top fifteen teams reached the finals, which ran from 30 September to 3 October 2021 across twenty matches at the Lightspeed and Quantum VSPN E-Sports Arena.

The regular season most valuable player award, worth ¥200,000, went to Paraboy of Nova Esports, while LGD Gaming player 诚c claimed the finals most valuable player award for the same amount. Team Weibo player 野猫 won the best rookie award, worth ¥100,000. Kills paid two points inside the first two zones and one point after that. Finals placement points paid 12 for a win down to 1 for eleventh, with no points for twelfth to fifteenth.