From Couch Surfing to Champion Gamer - The Story of Doublelift
In 2011, Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng was a homeless kid in California. 6 years later in 2017, he is now considered one of the best professional gamers in the world. So how did Doublelift defeat the odds to become one of the first professional League of Legends players? It’s simple, actually. He believed in himself . Like most professional gamers, Doublelift started playing games at an early age with his older brother, Yihong. With an age difference of 7 years between the two, video games were the only thing the two brothers had in common. Always playing whichever game his older brother was on, Doublelift found himself in constant competition with Yihong. His brother never let the age difference get in the way of their rivalry, though. In many ways, this early exposure to constant competition helped develop Doublelifts’s competitive spirit. Doublelift played various different games growing up, but where he made his name was League of Legends. League of Legends (LoL) is an ...