XPeke

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xPeke
XPeke at 2015 League of Legends Worlds crop.jpeg
Personal information
NameEnrique Cedeño Martinez
Born (1992-04-24) 24 April 1992 (age 32)
Jumilla, Spain
NationalitySpanish
Career information
Game League of Legends
Playing career2011–2017
RoleMid laner
Team history
2011myRevenge
2011–2014 Fnatic
20152017 Origen
Career highlights and awards

Enrique Cedeño Martinez (born 24 April 1992), better known by his in-game name xPeke ( /ɛksˈpɛk/ ), is a retired professional League of Legends player. He was the founder and owner of Origen, which competed in the LEC, the top level of professional League of Legends in Europe. [1] Martinez is best known for his spell with Fnatic, with whom he has won three League of Legends Championship Series Europe titles and the Season 1 World Championship.

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Early life

Enrique Cedeño Martinez was born on 24 April 1992 in Spain. [2] [3] His hometown is Molina de Segura in the southeastern Spanish autonomous community of Murcia. [4]

Career

Martinez first came to prominence in 2011 as a member of myRevenge, winning the Intel Extreme Masters Season V League of Legends invitational.

Fnatic

That myRevenge squad was picked up by Fnatic, with whom Martinez won the Season 1 League of Legends World Championship held at DreamHack. [5] In 2013, he was a part of the Fnatic squad that played in the first ever split of League of Legends Championship Series Europe, eventually winning both the Spring and Summer Split, with him being named the Summer Split playoffs MVP. At IEM Season VI Katowice, Martinez "backdoored" [lower-alpha 1] SK Gaming in a play regarded as one of the most iconic in League of Legends history due to how he accomplished it under pressure, near death, and while the enemy team was about to destroy his own base. [6] In 2014, he won another Spring Split title with Fnatic, but lost in the Summer Split finals to Alliance. After the Season 4 World Championship, Martinez announced his departure from Fnatic with the intention to create a new team. On 7 December 2014, the formation of Origen was officially announced, with Martinez assuming the position of a player manager. [7] In its first season as a professional team, Origen won the Europe Challenger Series title and finished second in the Summer Split of the European LCS. Martinez and Origen qualified for the Season 5 World Championship, having qualified through the regional gauntlet. [8] At Worlds they got to the semi-finals of the playoff bracket before losing to SK Telecom T1. Overall, Martinez had the highest Creep Score (CS) of any player in the tournament. [9]

Origen

Origen was initially founded by xPeke in December 2014 after he departed Fnatic to found his own team. Jungler Amazing (of Team SoloMid), support Mithy (formerly of Lemondogs), and rookie AD carry Niels (now called Zven) joined xPeke as he played mid lane. xPeke's former Fnatic teammate sOAZ joined shortly thereafter to play top lane. Origen established a base and gaming house in Tenerife in the Canary Islands of Spain in the beginnings.

In 2018 it was reported that Astralis' parent company RFRSH Entertainment had acquired Origen and would use their name and brand for their EU LCS entry as part of the 2019 European franchise program. [10] On November 20, Riot Games confirmed Origen as one of the ten partner teams for the LEC 2019 Spring Split. xPeke stayed under the organization as an Origen ambassador and has an ownership.

Seasons overview

TeamYearDomesticInternational
LeagueSplit Rift Rivals Mid-Season Invitational World Championship
SpringSummer
Fnatic 20111st
2012Did not qualify
2013 EU LCS 1st1st3rd–4th
2014 EU LCS 1st2nd12th–13th
Origen 2015 EU CS 1st
EU LCS 2nd2nd
2016 EU LCS 2nd9thDid not qualifyDid not qualify
2017 EU LCS 5th

Awards and honors

International
LEC
EU CS
Tournaments

Notes

  1. A term to describe a situation where one sneaks into the enemy's base and quickly destroys it.
  2. As coach.

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References

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  8. "LoL Esports".
  9. </ "LoL Esports".
  10. "Astralis parent company RFRSH Entertainment has acquired Origen and will use that team's name and brand as it enters the European League of Legends Championship Series as a franchise partner, league sources told ESPN. The legacy Spanish esports team will change ownership for the first time since it was launched by pro mid laner Enrique "xPeke" Cedeño Martínez in January 2015. RFRSH will make its pro League of Legends debut following a successful franchise application submitted this summer, a collaborative effort between RFRSH and Astralis with the assistance of commentator Martin "Deficio" Lynge". 19 November 2018.