Doublelift

Yiliang "Peter" Peng, better known as Doublelift, is an American content creator, streamer, and retired professional League of Legends player.

He previously played for Counter Logic Gaming, Team Liquid, Team SoloMid, and 100 Thieves.

Peng is considered one of the most iconic League of Legends players of all time.

He is known for being a fierce competitor and trash-talking his opponents.

CLG Prime finished in 4th with $2,500 in winnings.

Peng's first major tournament was DreamHack Summer 2011, also known as the Riot Season 1 Championship.

Hosted in Sweden, he needed his parents' permission to go, but at the time his beginning esports career was a secret to his parents.

"They wouldn't let me go... They were like 'You're going to die if you go to Sweden for Dreamhack'. " He was ultimately allowed to go after Doublelift's older brother helped convince their parents.

Peng was timid and socially awkward around his teammates.

"I was really awkward and really introverted at the time. I was just that typical Asian guy who does nothing but play games. When I finally met my team I was like 'hi' and that was like the only thing I said. I said nothing after that. I was just a presence with them but I didn't interact with them very much."

In a Reddit AMA, Peng said he owed it to Epik Gamer for giving him the opportunity to begin his career.

"Without Epik Gamer, I would have never made it into the pro scene most likely."

When Peng returned home, he said his parents were not proud of his accomplishment at Dreamhack.

"They wanted me to go to college."

Tensions grew between him and his parents over his choice of career, until in 2011 his parents told him to leave the house.

He did, taking his prize money from Dreamhack and his computer.

Peng wrote about the event on Reddit in a thread titled "Hi I'm Doublelift, formerly of team [Epik Gamer], and today I became homeless."

With no college degree or family to return to, he decided to go all-in on his professional gaming career.

Peng began earning money for writing educational League of Legends content for Team Curse.

"I pretty much made half the guides for that site... I was just super happy and I could finally pay rent that month."

CLG prime would attend the 2012 MLG Fall Championship in Dallas on November 2 through 4th.

In the first round they faced the Korean powerhouse NaJin Sword, where they were routed in two lopsided matches.

Falling to the losers bracket, CLG Prime would sweep Curse Gaming in round one, and then pick up a close 2–1 series against another NA team Dignitas.

They faced their sister team CLG EU in Round 3 and lost 2–1 and were eliminated from the tournament.

One of his most famous statements came in 2013 at the League of Legends All-Star tournament when he claimed that, "Everyone else is trash."

Peng comes from California, and started playing console games before jumping to PC titles such as DotA, World of Warcraft, and Heroes of Newerth, eventually moving to League of Legends.

In an interview with Machinima in 2013, Peng said his relationship with his parents was strained, because of his dream of being a professional esports player.

"I would always struggle with my parents... we would just argue over everything, especially games. When I wanted to play they thought it was just a complete waste of time. It got worse and worse over the years."

Peng first entered professional League of Legends when he gained the attention of George "HotshotGG" Georgallidis, founder of Counter Logic Gaming (CLG), who recruited him as a substitute Support player.

Shortly after, Peng left CLG to become the starting Support for Epik Gamer.

He later joined UnRestricted as the starting AD Carry, and the team was acquired by Team Curse later that year.

On February 27, 2013, CLG participated in the Riot Season 3 North American League Championship Series Spring Split.

In 2014, Peng and CLG finished third and fifth, respectively in the spring and summer playoffs, and did not qualify for international events.

CLG and Peng were fined on January 6, 2015, after being found guilty of poaching ZionSpartan.

CLG was fined $2,000 while Peng was fined $2,500.

Furthermore, CLG was restricted from fielding ZionSpartan as a player or coach for the first week of the 2015 LCS Spring Split.

For the first eight weeks of the spring split, CLG was never lower in the standings than tied for second place.

In the end, they lost a second-place tiebreaker to Cloud9 and so ended up in third place in the regular season.

Ultimately, CLG lost to Team Liquid in the quarterfinals and ended the split tied for fifth place with Gravity Gaming.

Peng was benched during the Summer LCS due to an injury incurred from playing basketball.