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Status
  
Active

Role
  
Mid

February 2013–September 2014
  
SK Telecom T1 (#2/K)

Game
  
League of Legends

Current team
  
Team Liquid

Games
  
League of Legends

Nationality
  
South Korean

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Championships
  
Season 3 World Championship

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

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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.

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2013

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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 Piglet joined the newly created SK Telecom T1 #2 after successfully passing their tryout test.

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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. Despite being heavily favoured SKT was upset by MVP, who beat them 3–1. In the following 3rd place match SKT beat CJ Entus Frost 3–0.

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, 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.

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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. 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.

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. Following the promotion tournament, Piglet announced that he would be leaving Team Liquid and returning to Korea.

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