Actor

1993-07-19 · Male

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Yiliang "Peter" Peng (born July 19, 1993), also known as his pseudonym Doublelift, is an American content creator, streamer, semi-professional and former-professional League of Legends player. He previously played for Counter Logic Gaming (CLG), Team Liquid, Team SoloMid (TSM), and 100 Thieves, and currently plays for his own personal team, Near Airport. Doublelift is widely considered to be one of the greatest North American League of Legends Championship Series players of all time, with 1 Split MVP, 5 All-Pro First Teams, and 1 All-Pro Third Team in 18 splits of competitive play. He is known for being a fierce competitor and trash-talking his opponents. 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."

Career

Doublelift 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, Doublelift 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." Doublelift first entered professional League of Legends when he gained the attention of George "HotshotGG" Georgallidis, founder of CLG, who recruited him as a substitute Support player. Shortly after, Doublelift 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.

Doublelift'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.

Doublelift 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 (Ask me anything), Doublelift 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 Doublelift 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. Doublelift 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. Doublelift 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."

Counter Logic Gaming (2012–2015)

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

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

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

CLG and Doublelift were fined on January 6, 2015, after being found guilty of poaching ZionSpartan. CLG was fined $2,000 while Doublelift 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.

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

In August, Doublelift helped CLG win their first-ever LCS Split playoff title. The victory also qualified them for the 2015 League of Legends World Championship. At Worlds CLG failed to make the bracket and finished 12/13th. On October 31, CLG informed Doublelift that they were not going to re-sign him.

Team SoloMid (2016)

After CLG released a statement, Team SoloMid announced that Doublelift would be joining, replacing long tenured AD Carry WildTurtle. On his new team, Doublelift reached the finals of the spring split, and faced off against his old team CLG. TSM fell 3–2 to CLG, and took a second-place finish, missing out on the Mid-Season Invitational. In summer, Team SoloMid added a new support to pair with Doublelift in the botlane, picking up Vincent "Biofrost" Wang. The team saw significant improvement in the summer split, improving their previous 9–9 record to a 17–1 standing at the end of the regular season, and earned a bye into playoffs. Doublelift also earned First Team All-Pro honors for his performance. Doublelift once again made it to the finals, and this time won, defeating Cloud9 3–1, to give Doublelift his second title.

Before the start of the 2017 season, TSM announced that Doublelift would be taking a hiatus from professional League of Legends during the spring split, saying "it's time for a small break." While he would remain contracted to the team, he would be streaming full-time until his return to professional play in the summer when, according to TSM owner Andy Dinh, he would have to compete with his replacement to return to the starting roster. In the past, Doublelift has spoken out about the never-ending competitive schedule for professional League of Legends. After representing North America in the All-Star 2013 in Shanghai, Doublelift said in a Reddit AMA "I'm just tired of playing all day every day, and I want a goddamn break but it's not possible to get one." In a Reddit AMA in 2014, Doublelift said "Most people who look at pros think that we live the dream life when in reality you either practice 16 hours a day or lose and end up frustrated. Sometimes you practice 16 hours a day and still end up losing." One month later, TSM announced that WildTurtle would be Doublelift's replacement for the 2017 spring split. In an interview, teammate Bjergsen agreed with Dinh's initial announcement that Doublelift would need to compete with his replacement, saying "I want WildTurtle to succeed and I wasn't just sitting around waiting for Peter because I wanted someone who was committed, and like I said I was disappointed and I felt he wasn't very committed. I didn't feel like he should just have the luxury of going out and making a lot of money [streaming] and returning to the team... No matter how good of a friend they are to me, if someone decides he's just going to take six months off and he thinks he's can…