Why do people hate chauster

They finished respectably, in fourth place. Doublelift was set to attend the University of California, Irvine a few months later. It was my first real-world experience that was really vivid and really impactful," Doublelift said. I was like, 'Oh my god, this is so crazy. It was the perfect first LAN experience. I met my teammates in real life, and they didn't hate me. We took a picture together.

It was a really iconic picture because I had a bowl cut. He vividly recalled wandering around Sweden, wide-eyed and in awe at everything he saw. A month later, he was kicked out of his house. It was a week after his 18th birthday.

On July 26, , Doublelift wrote a thread on the League of Legends subreddit. A few responses into the thread, a young man named Travis Gafford responded with a comment asking Doublelift to email him directly.

Within the thread itself, there are responses to Gafford's comment from years later that read, "So this is where it all began. Gafford, now an independent esports content creator, offered Doublelift a place to stay. The choice kicked off their friendship. When either Gafford or Doublelift speak about this time in their lives, they use words like "fated" or "natural. Initially, the plan was that Doublelift would still attend UCI that fall.

You can just be the tenant. At no point was I thinking, 'This is so unreal. That's just why I reached out. I thought in my mind, 'He's a pro player on this team that went to the world championship; he can't be that crazy. With support, his goal shifted to the emerging path of becoming a professional player. This is the story of a professional player who became the protagonist and antagonist of a region all at once.

He watched their YouTube videos and appreciated their talent and outspoken natures. It just so happened that I was on a really toxic team, CLG, so I ended up having a really toxic personality. He paused, shaking his head and laughing.

At this part of Doublelift's arc, the bot-centric style of his teams, inevitably comes up in conversation, buoyed by rumors of his strong voice on every team he's been a part of, but particularly CLG. I think the thing that really stuck out to me is that if you're toxic but you're bad at the game, you're a pretty big clown.

Everyone is just going to clown on you all the time. Doublelift's personality has always been divisive, especially from his earlier years in the scene. In an infamous, bridge-burning written departure, Austin "Link" Shin, one of Doublelift's former CLG teammates, called him "The most outgoing and charismatic person I've really ever met. Good friend, yet a horrible teammate. That is pretty much the most accurate summary of Doublelift that I can give you.

After describing their time together in a brief paragraph, Chauster summed up his time with Doublelift thusly: "Tl;dr I taught Doublelift how to lane; could not teach him how to play the game. Part of that public perception and his teammates' opinions might have stemmed from Doublelift's youth, he said, although his attitude didn't differ all that much from other burgeoning pros at the time. Other people, they're going to college, they have jobs, they have girlfriends and stuff and I'm just like, 'I'm 18 years old, and I've got nothing else to do, so I'm just going to play League.

And if my teammates suck, I'm going to yell at them. He laughed. The majority of Doublelift's time on CLG was in an era where the game itself was coming into its own. Most teams didn't have coaches, and the ones that did frequently struggled to earn respect from their own players.

That was where motivation came from: bickering with your teammates. You don't want to be the stiest player on the team or else you'll get kicked. It's accompanied by the sense that he's matured significantly in that time frame. At one point, "Doublelift's trophy case" was a memetic subreddit, crafted so that visitors could see the automatically generated Reddit tagline "There doesn't seem to be anything here. And Doublelift, the best bot laner in North America, has been such a difference-maker that many wonder how any other LCS player can stop him.

That you're just waiting for me to retire? That's pretty sad. That's pretty pathetic. I don't want the streak to end but I think four in a row is pretty greedy already. This is the story of a player in the spotlight who dealt with trial and adversity as the world watched.

On March 31, , Doublelift's older brother, Yihong Peng, was arrested on murder charges after their mother and father were found stabbed. It will come. It has to come because I work on this thing every single day. It has to finally pay off. And so [this] was more satisfaction. Those guys are big. Not just my play, but they changed me as a person.

I think one of the really great and undersold things about Doublelift is that he is extremely reflective about his past. But each win vindicates him a little bit. Not all of us can win a World Championship at 18, and not all of us can stare our friends in the eye and say sorry. In the moments leading up to that, the audience was stunned — I remember very clearly one fan bolted upright out of his seat and pressed both of his hands down atop his head.

There is disbelief and shock and awe. But it was never supposed to be like this for Korea. They were not supposed to be in a position that required mercy. He is second in kills only to Ning among junglers, who plays on a team with a much more action-based style.

There is probably more pressure on SKT than any other team at this tournament. We should play to our strengths. Leaving the USA had been a risk, losing valuable streaming hours and being forced to adapt to being in such close quarters with their team-mates. In scrims they would beat some teams, such as the aforementioned Frost, but also be crushed by the likes of MaKNooN's NaJin e-mFire and others, including solo q stars Incredible Miracle. The difficulties of getting a grasp on the Korean scene were immediately apparent, as CLG lost to Xenics Storm in the group stage and had to defeat two other Korean teams to progress to the playoff portion of the tournament.

Beating aAa in a rematch of IEM, they were then shocked by a three game loss to Dignitas in the next round of the upper bracket. Reaching a rematch with Dignitas in the lower bracket, they made up for their errors and moved into a final against TSM, a team they had always held sway over. After beating TSM in the first series, CLG could feel confident they were set to take an other domestic title, but TSM performed the same feat, beating them in the crucial second series, forcing CLG to leave Vegas as runners-up.

Back in Korea, they met MiG Blaze, sister team of Frost, in the quarter-final and were defeated in a sweep to finish outside of the top four for only the second time in an offline tournament. Blaze would go on to win the tournament, upsetting sister team Frost in the final, so the blow would be softened a little with that context. An argument between Chauster and Saintvicious, a contentious pair, had set off a chain reaction that ended with CLG, led by owner HotshotGG, deciding to remove Saintvicious from the starting line-up.

They initially offered him a spot leading a B team, but he declined and was to leave the team. Mid laner bigfatlp put him in contact with Curse and the Jungler would find a home there. I think most of it just comes from Hotshot. Cos I remember when we had a big argument when we were near the end of Korea, cos Hotshot wanted to get a gaming house, and I just didn't wanna live with him".

Beyond just Saintvicious, HotshotGG had other ideas for the team, in line with having brought them to Korea to compete there. He wanted them to all move into a gaming house and up their level of practice, something Saintvicious and bigfatlp had been against.

The latter, due to a personal relationship, would not live with the team that year. Their first role swap had worked, their second would be put to the test in the coming months.

For the purpose of setting the stage for that crucial moment in May, I will briefly outline CLG's run following their removal of their star jungler. The team continued to be foiled by TSM and Dignitas domestically, losing again in the upper bracket to the latter and the final to the former at MLG. At the S2 Regionals, they were beaten by Dignitas in the semi-final and only grabbed a World Championship spot after beating Curse in the third place decider.

At the World Championship they were humiliated with losses to the Chinese iG and eventual runners-up Frost, barely scraping through their other group stage game against SK. EU, were all they had to show for the end of the run. Locodoco departed and in they began to compete in the LCS. With their last top four finish more than two thirds of a year prior, and forced to watch the S3 World Championship as spectators, CLG decided to begin looking for full-time starting Junglers.

With the basics of the history lesson behind us, we can now examine the line-up CLG gave up in removing Saintvicious. Their OGN performance may seem like a significant step down, with them losing in the group stage and then failing to crack the top four, but there is more context to those results than the final placing lets on. It's easy enough to identify that it was misfortune to be drawn against MiG Blaze, the team who went on to win the entire tournament, in the quarter-final, but it may be overlooked initially that the team who defeated CLG in the group stage, putting them in position to be drawn against Blaze, was Xenics Storm, who went on to finish third in the tournament overall.

Losing only to eventual champions and third place finishing team, it's hard to draw a black and white conclusion that CLG were in significant trouble from their final placing, they could even have been the fourth best team in the tournament. With their performance against M5 they not only came close to a finals finish, despite not winning a game, but also showed off a style which promised a better chance against M5 than anyone else had displayed.

Saintvicious had been one of the few players to hold his own against Diamondprox, not being counter-jungled as others had, and CLG's split-pushing style had been able to make an impact against the heavily team-fight-orientated approach of the Russians. When the Russians would go for the dragon, where other teams would often engage and fight them, CLG would abandon dragon entirely and trade it for the top tower, forcing the Russians to lose a number of waves of minions.

If you don't listen to his calls, you're dumb, he's the general. For modern day fans, it can be easy to write Saintvicious off as the guy who misses every smite and had long since seen his best days pass him by. That is to do a disservice to one of the best Junglers of all time though, perhaps North America's best ever individually. In his prime Saintvicious was the original carry jungler, farming up and making himself a strong presence for team-fights. Was I good? What's going on? I would just take it from Hotshot's lane, cos we'd trade off the dragon and then we'd just go and take five waves top and that would put me and Hotshot so far ahead it's like there's just no way you could fight it out.

That's what I was good at: I could farm really good and I had really good team-fight mechanics. I just played stuff that was broken at the time, I liked Mundo, I liked Shyvanna, I liked Udyr, when he was really good.

I think one of the most important things about League is mastering the stuff that is broken, playing inside the meta. More importantly, as the Chauster quote at the top of the article mentioned, the synergy of the Jungler and Top lane styles worked well during Saintvicious' time in CLG.

Saint understood that he needed to ensure Hotshot was doing well at Top, at a time when the meta saw Junglers more focused on ganking Top than the modern day meta of baby-sitting Mid lane.

Thanks to his farm heavy style, even incorporated into the team's approach of trading dragon for top tower and waves of minions, Saint was a serious threat to the enemy jungler in straight up duels. Fresh out of a group stage exit at Worlds , Team Liquid announced the signing of Jensen and former world champion CoreJJ to the midlane and support positions respectively. Team Liquid dropped the first two games of the series, and on the brink of elimination, Liquid picked up three straight wins to beat TSM in the best of 5 series, thus earning Doublelift his 6th championship and 3rd straight title win.

Despite coming off of a strong performance in the Spring playoffs, Team Liquid struggled initially in the group stage of MSI , but with a strong finish to the group stage they secured a 4th place seeding in the playoffs. This marked the first time Doublelift making it out of groups stage at an international tournament. In a surprising upset, the 4th seeded Team Liquid defeated the defending world champions, Invictus Gaming, in a four game series.

Team Liquid advanced to the finals to face G2 Esports, where they were ultimately defeated in a sweep. However, they regained their footing and managed to take sole ownership of first place in a few short weeks.

They once again finished atop the LCS with a record. In the summer playoffs, Liquid beat Clutch Gaming in a close five games series to secure their place at Worlds They advanced to the summer finals where they met the second seeded Cloud9.

It was a tightly contested series with Liquid winning the first game of the series, but dropping games 2 and 3 to Cloud9. Liquid managed to turn the tables and win games 4 and 5 to secure their 4th straight LCS trophy and Doublelift his 7th championship overall. At Worlds Liquid had a lackluster performance which led to them once again being eliminated in the group stage.

Prior to the start of the spring split, Broxah had visa issues preventing him from joining them for the start of the spring season. Team Liquid performed very poorly, a far cry from their domination of the years prior. According Doublelift, this decision stemmed from his apparent lack of motivation to begin the spring split. Doublelift publicly apologized to his teammates for his attitude, and promised to work harder to return to the LCS stage.

Doublelift returned to the starting lineup the following week, but ultimately Liquid finished the split in 9th place and did not make Spring Playoffs. Doublelift and Team Liquid's failure to qualify for playoffs marked the first time in LCS history that the reigning champion not qualify for the following split's playoffs.

TSM had a shaky start to the first half of the split, with a record of Although they were third in LCS, critics deemed their wins unconvincing and some considered their record as not properly reflective of their actual skill level.

In the middle of the split, Biofrost was replaced by TSM Academy support Treatz, with the team citing better communication and possibly playmaking as the deciding factors.

In the 2nd half of the split, TSM once again went Doublelift's performance during the summer regular season was regarded as subpar and a far cry from his dominance of years prior.

TSM finished the regular split in 4th place with a record. In playoffs, TSM faced the fifth seeded Golden Guardians in the upper bracket of the double elimination tournament. Although it was projected to be a close series, Golden Guardians unexpectedly swept TSM with the TSM bot lane being perceived as the weak link in the loss. After the first round defeat, the team subbed Biofrost back in place of Treatz.

The moved was in part cited to the existing synergy between Doublelift and Biofrost, especially for laning phase. TSM would drop to the bottom half of the elimination bracket to face the 8th seed, Team Dignitas. TSM swept Dignitas in convincing fashion, as expected. Golden Guardians took the first two games of the series, but behind outstanding performances from Bjergsen, Spica, and Brokenblade, TSM managed to come back and reverse sweep the series.

TSM won the series against Cloud9 and qualified for Worlds. With Team Liquid losing to FlyQuest in the upper bracket, Doublelift faced his old team in order to move on to the summer split finals. TSM defeated Team Liquid after a grueling five game series. Critics cited improved play by Doublelift as one of the main reasons behind the win. Doublelift was once again unable to advance past the group stage, after TSM went in the group stage. In November , Doublelift announced on his twitter account that he was retiring from professional League of Legends, thus concluding a storied career which spanned nearly a decade.

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