Piglet (League of Legends player)

Piglet
Chae Gwang-jin
Status Active
Born February 4, 1994
Nationality South Korean
Current team Team Liquid
Role AD Carry
League NA LCS, NA CS
Games League of Legends
Championships Season 3 World Championship
Professional career
February 2013–September 2014 SK Telecom T1 (#2/K)
October 2014–January 2015 Team Curse
January 2015–present Team Liquid/Team Liquid Academy

Chae Gwang-jin, (born February 4, 1994) better known as Piglet, is a South Korean League of Legends player who plays AD Carry for Team Liquid of the North American League of Legends Championship Series. Piglet won the Season 3 World Championship in 2013 with LCK team SK Telecom T1.[1][2]

With Team Liquid he finished in 3rd place both in the Spring and Summer splits of the North American League of Legends Championship Series, but once again missed the World Championship when his team was beaten by Cloud9 in the final qualifying gauntlet.

Career

2013

Before Piglet played League of Legends, he was a semi-professional player of StarCraft. His family was strongly against him becoming a pro gamer, so he lied that he quit the game. Meanwhile, he went to PC bangs to play and practice. However, he felt that he didn't play well enough and gave up the idea of being a pro. After playing League of Legends Piglet wondered if it would also have a pro scene, and when he saw people playing the game on TV his interest in becoming a pro reignited. When the South Korean servers of League of Legends opened, he began to practice more. Eventually Piglet received offers from several teams, but he decided to only contact SK Telecom T1 (SKT). In February 2013[3] Piglet joined the newly created SK Telecom T1 #2 after successfully passing their tryout test.[4]

Piglet and his team's playing debut was in OLYMPUS Champions Spring 2013, which put them in Group A together with CJ Entus Blaze, KT Rolster A, MVP Blue, MVP Ozone and NaJin Sword. The rookie team surprised by finishing at the top ahead of tournament favourites CJ Entus Blaze. In the quarter-finals, the team faced NaJin Shield which they swept 3–0, putting them in a semi-final against MVP Ozone.[5] Despite being heavily favoured SKT was upset by MVP, who beat them 3–1.[6] In the following 3rd place match SKT beat CJ Entus Frost 3–0.[3]

Later the same month, SKT participated in the AMD-INVEN GamExperience, where they once again were knocked out in the semi-finals by MVP OZone, leading to a 3rd–4th-place finish. Shortly after, the SK Telecom T1 organization released SK Telecom T1 #1 and renamed SK Telecom T1 #2 to simply SK Telecom T1. Following this, the team competed in HOT6iX Champions Summer 2013. There they once again finished at the top of their group with a clean 3–0 record. Coming of a 3–0 win in the quarter-finals, the team found themselves once again against MVP Ozone. This time however, they beat MVP, and went on to face KT Rolster Bullets in the final. In what has been described as among the greatest series of the game's history,[5][7] SKT defeated KT in a 3–2 reverse sweep and secured their position in the regional finals for a chance at competing in the Season 3 World Championship. There they beat KT again and thus earned Korea's final seed in the tournament.[3][5]

At the Season 3 World Championship in Los Angeles, California, SKT only lost one game in the group stages to Chinese team OMG to tie for first place. They then swept the Taiwanese team Gamania Bears 2–0 in the quarter-finals to face off against NaJin Black Sword in the semi-finals.[8] The best-of-five series went all the way to the fifth game before SKT could secure their spot in the final. Up against China's Royal Club, the team didn't lose a single game and were crowned the Season 3 World Champions.[5]

Piglet played ADC for Team Liquid Academy during the North American League of Legends Challenger Series. The team got 3-4th in the 2016 Spring playoffs. The team also failed to qualify for the LCS during the promotion tournament.[9] Following the promotion tournament, Piglet announced that he would be leaving Team Liquid and returning to Korea.

Tournament results

2013
Date Event Placing Final game
2013-06-05 OLYMPUS Champions Spring 2013 3rd SK Telecom T1 #2 0 CJ Entus Frost
2013-06-29 AMD-INVEN GamExperience SF SK Telecom T1 #2 0-2 MVP Ozone
2013-08-31 HOT6iX Champions Summer 2013 1st SK Telecom T1 3-2 KT Rolster Bullets
2013-10-04 Season 3 World Championship 1st SK Telecom T1 3-2 Royal Club
2014
Date Event Placing Final game
2014-01-25 PANDORA.TV Champions Winter 2013–2014 1st SF SK Telecom T1 K 3-1 Samsung Galaxy Ozone
2014-05-11 All-Star Paris 2014 Invitational 1st SK Telecom T1 K 3-0 OMG
2014-05-14 bigfile NLB Spring 2014 3rd SK Telecom T1 K 3-0 KT Rolster Bullets
2014-06-18 SK Telecom LTE-A LoL Masters 2014 2nd SK Telecom T1 0-3 Samsung Galaxy
2014-08-09 ITENJOY NLB Summer 2014 1st SK Telecom T1 K 3-0 NaJin Black Sword
2015
Date Event Placing Final game
2015-04-18 2015 NA LCS Spring 3rd Team Liquid 3-2 Team Impulse
2015-08-22 2015 NA LCS Summer 3= Team Liquid 3-1 Team Impulse
2016 NA LCS Spring ? Team Liquid
2015 NA LCS Spring playoffs ? Team Liquid
2016 NA LCS Summer 5th Team Liquid
2015 NA LCS Summer playoffs ? Team Liquid

Individual awards

Year Award Category Result Ref.
2014 Korea e-Sports Awards 2013 Best ADC Won [10][11]
2015 LCS 2015 Summer Split Awards North America MVP 3rd place [12]
North America All Pro 1st Team – ADC Won

References

  1. ↑ http://espn.go.com/esports/story/_/id/16315882/seeing-[phoenix1]-lcs-kind-disheartening. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ http://www.techinsider.io/piglets-amazing-league-of-legends-journey-2015-8
  3. 1 2 3 Yordanov, Daniel (September 22, 2013). "Countdown to the Finals: Korea". SK Gaming. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ Piglet: Champions of Korea (YouTube video) (in Korean). South Korea: Machinima Inc. September 25, 2013. Event occurs at 0:30–3:20. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Manisier, Alex (August 27, 2014). "SK Telecom T1 K: Finding the Repeat". LoL Esports. Riot Games. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
  6. ↑ Shields, Duncan (December 6, 2013). "Ten great League of Legends finals that could have been". onGamers. CBS Interactive. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
  7. ↑ Erzberger, Tyler (August 28, 2015). "The Retrospective: SKT T1 vs. KT Bullets". theScore eSports. theScore Inc. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  8. ↑ Magus (September 27, 2013). "The Season 3 semifinals are here". LoL Esports. Riot Games. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  9. ↑ https://esports.yahoo.com/piglet-korea-tl-team-liquid-180000658.html
  10. ↑ "[e스포츠 대상] 최강의 LoL 팀 SK텔레콤 T1 K, 영광의 대상 차지(종합)". inven.co.kr (in Korean). Inven Communications. February 7, 2014. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
  11. ↑ Kulasingham, Nilu (October 22, 2014). "Piglet to Curse". onGamers. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on October 25, 2014. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
  12. ↑ Fields, Frank (August 26, 2015). "LCS 2015 Summer Split Awards Presented on PTL and LCS Finals". LoL Esports. Riot Games. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
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