{"id":11177,"date":"2020-04-28T00:39:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T00:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=11177"},"modified":"2020-04-28T00:39:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T00:39:39","slug":"doublelift-returns-to-team-solomids-lol-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/doublelift-returns-to-team-solomids-lol-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Doublelift returns to Team SoloMid&#8217;s LoL roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yiliang Peter &#8220;Doublelift&#8221; Peng, one of the most success <a href=\"\/league-of-legends\/\" title=\"LoL esports betting\">League of Legends esports<\/a> players in North America, has announced his return to Team SoloMid after spending the last two seasons at Team Liquid.<\/p>\n<p>A possible return to TSM has been talked about ever since Team Liquid revealed they were open to negotiations for the sale of their star ADC, with whom they won four consecutive League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) playoffs and made four appearances at the LoL World Championship. During that time, <a href=\"\/did-invictus-self-destruct-against-team-liquid-at-msi-2019\/\" title=\"Did Invictus self-destruct against Team Liquid at MSI 2019?\">Doublelift and TL also defeated the reigning world champions, Invictus Gaming, in the semi-finals of the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational<\/a> to become only the second North American team to reach the MSI grand finals.<\/p>\n<p>With Doublelift, Team Liquid enjoyed one of the most successful periods in the organisation&#8217;s history. This year, however, has been a disaster thus far, as TL finished the LoL Championship Series (LCS) 2020 Spring Split in ninth place with a 7-11 record. <\/p>\n<p>While Team Liquid did not provide any detailed explanation for Doublelift&#8217;s departure, it is public knowledge that he and Team Liquid&#8217;s owner, Steve &#8220;LiQuiD112&#8221; Arhancet, parted ways on good terms. However, many in the broader LoL esports community want a few important questions answered.<\/p>\n<p>Since Doublelift is dating Leena Xu, who is the president of TSM, several prominent figures in the esports industry have asked whether this move constitutes a flagrant breach of integrity protocols. Christopher &#8220;MonteCristo&#8221; Kjell Mykles, a former Overwatch caster who turned to freelancing in January, summed up all the concerns with one Tweet:<\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wonder who is going to come coach TSM?<\/p>\n<p>One player is a partial owner, another player is dating your boss, and your boss&#39; boss used to date your boss and has a history of taking over as coach.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MonteCristo (@MonteCristo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MonteCristo\/status\/1252701081940881408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Some have even accused Doublelift of intentionally underperforming in the LCS 2020 Spring Split in order to force a move to Team SoloMid. However, those claims ignore the fact that the player could have triggered a release clause in his contract at any time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Leena wasn\u2019t on TSM, would I join TSM? Absolutely, yes,\u201d said Doublelift in his vlog.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI joined because the roster is really good, because the organisation is super hyped, and my past relationships with Bjergsen [S\u00f8ren &#8220;Bjergsen&#8221; Bjerg] and Bio [Vincent &#8220;Biofrost&#8221; Wang]. I think if you removed Leena from the equation, my decision making would be the exact same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the same vlog, Doublelift explained everything that led to his departure from Team Liquid, including <a href=\"\/team-liquids-lol-season-in-jeopardy-due-to-visa-issues\/\" title=\"Visa issues could ruin Team Liquid's LoL season\">Mads &#8220;Broxah&#8221; Brock-Pedersen&#8217;s visa issues<\/a>, internal struggles and disagreements with the team&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<div class=\" responsive-embed responsive-embed-16x9 embed-youtube\"><iframe title=\"Doublelift Vlog - Joining TSM and what really happened\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qY0ce86yKuA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It all started after Team Liquid failed to deliver at the 2019 LoL Worlds, at which point the team started to talk about parting ways with their jungler, Jake &#8220;Xmithie&#8221; Puchero. Reportedly, Doublelift was the only player on the team who did not want Xmithie to leave, since he had established a great relationship with the Filipino jungler over two-and-a-half years.<\/p>\n<p>Liquid&#8217;s performance at Worlds was humiliatingly bad, and Doublelift was adamant that the whole team, and not just Xmithie, were to blame. His voice was not heard, however, and Liquid decided to sell Xmithie and acquire Broxah.<\/p>\n<p>Doublelift also talked about his lack of motivation during the LCS Spring Split, for which he apologised once again, and addressed the many factors behind his lack of drive. He pointed to a lack of feedback from his teammates and coaches, and he also claimed he was told \u201cnot to make any calls and instead only feed information\u201d during matches.<\/p>\n<p>Supposedly, the only two members of the Team Liquid setup who supported Doublelift during this difficult time were Broxah and Arhancet. That made the 26-year-old LoL veteran realise his relationship with the roster was damaged beyond repair and it was time to start looking at other options.<\/p>\n<p>Doublelift has now reunited with Bjergsen, with whom he played in 2016 when TSM finished third-fourth at the <a href=\"\/electronic-sports-league\/intel-extreme-masters\/\" title=\"IEM esports events\">Intel Extreme Masters<\/a> (IEM) Season 10 World Championship and won the LCS 2016 Summer Split. In 2017, the trio of Doublelift, Bjergsen and Biofrost won Rift Rivals as well as the LCS Summer Split and the resulting playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yiliang Peter &#8220;Doublelift&#8221; Peng, one of the most success League of Legends players in North America, has announced his return to Team SoloMid after spending the last two seasons at Team Liquid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":4771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,261,24,128,93,1195],"class_list":["post-11177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-lcs","tag-league-of-legends","tag-team-liquid","tag-team-solomid","tag-yiliang-peter-doublelift-peng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11180,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177\/revisions\/11180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}