Doublelift

Peng Yiliang, known as Doublelift, is an American professional League of Legends AD Carry player who currently plays for Team SoloMid. He has also spent several years playing for Counter Logic Gaming and has carried Team Liquid in relegations in the past. He has had one of the longest careers of any player in the North American League of Legends Championship Series and has appeared in the League of Legends World Championship several times. For much of his career, he was considered by many to be North America's premier AD Carry, and he is still widely regarded as one of the top three in the region. His previous hobby before playing video games was learning card magic, and it influenced the choosing of his in-game ID Doublelift, as double lift is a staple card trick.^[2]

Career

2011

Known for his Blitzcrank, Doublelift gained the attention of George "HotshotGG" Georgallidis in early 2011, and the two duo queued together. HotshotGG asked him to join Counter Logic Gaming as a substitute which he accepted, but soon moved to Epik Gamer for a starting position as their Support. Doublelift then moved on to unRestricted to become their starting AD Carry. Some time afterwards the team was acquired by Curse Inc. and he competed for Curse at LAN events such as IGN Proleague and IEM New York.

In November 2011, Doublelift left Curse and rejoined CLG, now as their starting AD Carry.

2012

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 $2,000 in winnings.^[3]

On November 29, CLG would enter the IPL 5 tournament held in Las Vegas. In the group stages CLG Prime would dispatch the newly formed Team FeaR twice while dropping a game to CLG EU to advance. In the first round they would defeat Curse EU 2-1, and then move on to face FnaticRC. CLG Prime took the first game off Fnatic with sharp play from Jiji's Twisted Fate, however the champion was quickly banned out and CLG Prime would lose the next two games. In the losers bracket CLG Prime would face Moscow 5, they would take the first game of the set, but then fell twice against the Russian team, finishing their run in the tournament. CLG Prime would place 5th-6th with $2,500 in prize money. CLG Prime outperformed most expectations of them at tournament, with a strong showing of Chauster as the new jungler; they also challenged the perception of Team SoloMid as the strongest team in the NA scene.

2013

On February 27, 2013, CLG participated in the Riot Season 3 North American League Championship Series Spring Split.^[4] After 10 weeks Round Robin with Team SoloMid, Team Dignitas, Team Vulcun, Team MRN, Curse Gaming, Good Game University and compLexity Gaming, CLG successfully qualified for the Sping Split Playoffs. However, CLG was outplayed by Team Vulcun and fell 1-2 in the quarterfinals, placing 5th-6th along with Team Dignitas. Unfortunately, CLG failed to qualify for the Riot Season 3 NA Championship Series Summer Split and had to regain their LCS spot via the Summer Promotion tournament. In the Summer Promotion, CLG faced Azure Cats in the promotion match, and defeated them 3-0 to secure their spot in the Riot Season 3 NA Championship Series Summer Split.

Doublelift represented North America in the 2013 All Star tournament.

The Summer LCS Season proved to rocky for the new CLG roster, which spent most of the season competing to stay in the middle of the pack, ending the season in 6th place with a 13-15 record but able to make it into the playoffs. Their first game was against longtime rival TSM but they were unable to win a game, going 0-2, losing their chance to make it to the Season 3 World Championship. They went on to face Team Curse to compete for the 5th place spot to win a spot back for the Season 4 Spring LCS. They were able to come together and go 2-0 and secure their spot in the league.

2014

CLG finished 3rd in the 2014 NA LCS Spring Regular Season, and then 3rd again in the playoffs after a 2-0 loss to Team Curse. Doublelift represented North America in the 2014 All Star tournament. Doublelift and CLG then placed 5th LCS North America Season 3 Summer Regular Season. Afterwards they got 6th in the playoffs when they were immediately defeated 3-1 by Team Dignitas CLG placed 2nd at IEM Season IX - Cologne.

2015

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.^[5]

For the first eight weeks of the spring split, CLG were never lower in the standings than tied for second place. At the end they lost a second-place tie breaker 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.^[6]

Echoing their spring split performance, CLG started the summer split strong, in first place at the end of each of the first four weeks and then lost four games in a row to finish tied for fifth after week six. This time, they rebounded and ended the season in second, behind Team Liquid and with a 13-5 record. They received a bye in the first round of the playoffs and then swept both Team Impulse and Team SoloMid 3-0, to win their first LAN event since MLG Raleigh in 2011 nearly four years prior - and Doublelift's first ever - and receive North America's top seed to Worlds. In their group draw with KOO Tigers, Flash Wolves, and paiN Gaming, CLG did not advance, ending with a 2-4 record including a loss to paiN.

Doublelift was benched during the Summer LCS due to an injury incurred from playing basketball.^[7] On July 4 Doublelift became the first player in the NA LCS to reach 500 kills.

In August Doublelift helped CLG win their first ever LCS Split playoff title.^[8] 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 after learning he had approached other CLG members to join rival North American organization Team SoloMid during the 2015 offseason.^[9] Immediately after CLG released a statement on parting ways with Doublelift,^[10] Team SoloMid announced that Doublelift would be joining as their new AD Carry, replacing long tenured AD Carry WildTurtle.^[11]

2016

After an up-and-down performance of TSM in the first split of the NA LCS, TSM ended 6th before clawing their way up to the final where they had to play against CLG. After a 5-game series, CLG bested TSM. Yellowstar left TSM and was replaced by unknown support, Biofrost. TSM were surprsingly able to go 17-1, only losing their series to bottom tier team, Phoenix1. TSM beat Cloud9 in the finals of the NALCS. At Worlds, they were drawn in a team with Samsung Galaxy, Royal Never Give Up and Splyce. TSM were able to go 2-1 in the first week, but their bot lane were the weak points when facing international teams. In week 2, Doublelift surprising brought out Lucian, an off-meta champion but comfort pick for him. Despite having a high KDA against Samsung, Doublelift infamously dashed into a Viktor with ultimate and caused them to lose the game, and ultimately caused them to not make it out of groups.

At All-Stars 2016 in Barcelona, Doublelift revealed that he really enjoys streaming a lot more than he had expected, furthering speculation that his break from the 2017 Spring Split may, in fact, mark his permanent retirement from the professional scene.^[12]

2017

Doublelift maintained a relatively low profile during the 2017 Spring Split, usually just sticking to streaming online. He made a surprise return to the LCS for Team Liquid during the week 7 match-up against Cloud 9 replacing then AD Carry Youngbin. Team Liquid, who had a record of 3 wins and 9 losses at the time of subbing in Doublelift, went on to win 2 of their 6 remaining games, finishing the split 5–13. Since Team Liquid were among the bottom two teams of the NA LCS during the Spring Split, they participated in the Promotional Relegation Tournament to see if they would return to the LCS for the upcoming Summer Split. With the help of Doublelift, they won their first two games against E-United and Gold Coin United, automatically earning them a place back in the NA LCS for the summer.

Tournaments results

Career Tournament Results
Date	Event	Placing	Team	Record	Opponent
January 24 – March 29, 2015	2015 NA LCS Spring Regular Season	3rd	Counter Logic Gaming	12-7	N/A
April 4, 2015	2015 NA LCS Spring Playoffs	5th/6th	Counter Logic Gaming	0-3	Team Liquid
May 30 – July 26, 2015	2015 NA LCS Summer Regular Season	2nd	Counter Logic Gaming	13-6	N/A
August 23, 2015	2015 NA LCS Summer Playoffs	1st	Counter Logic Gaming	3–0	Team SoloMid
October 1–11, 2015	2015 League of Legends World Championship Group Stage	12th/13th	Counter Logic Gaming	2-4	N/A
January 16 – March 20, 2016	2016 NA LCS Spring Regular Season	6th	Team SoloMid	9-9	N/A
April 17, 2016	2016 NA LCS Spring Playoffs	2nd	Team SoloMid	2-3	Counter Logic Gaming
June 3 – July 31, 2016	2016 NA LCS Summer Regular Season	1st	Team SoloMid	17-1	N/A
August 28, 2016	2016 NA LCS Summer Playoffs	1st	Team SoloMid	3-1	Cloud9
September 29, 2016 – October 8, 2016	2016 League of Legends World Championship Group Stage	9th-12th	Team SoloMid	3-3	N/A
July 5, 2017 – July 8, 2017	2017 League of Legends Rift Rivals EU vs. NA	1st	Team SoloMid	8-1	Unicorns of Love

Personal life

Doublelift was born on July 19, 1993 and grew up in Mission Viejo, California.^[13] Doublelift has a brother who is seven years older.^[14] He is of Chinese descent.^[15] Peng was eventually kicked out of his home by his parents after he had got back from DreamHack Summer 2011.^[15] Peng was also planning to attend his first year of college at University of California, Irvine in a few months.^[16][15] Peng eventually moved in with Travis "Tnomad" Gafford prior to joining Counter Logic Gaming and living in their gaming house.

References

External links

• Twitter account

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