Enrique Cedeño Martínez (born 24 April 1992), better known by his in-game name xPeke (), 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. Martínez 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 Martínez was born on 24 April 1992 in Spain. His hometown is Molina de Segura in the southeastern Spanish autonomous community of Murcia.
Career
Martínez 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 Martínez won the Season 1 League of Legends World Championship held at DreamHack. 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, Martínez "backdoored" 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. 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, Martínez 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 Martínez assuming the position of a player manager. 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. Martínez and Origen qualified for the Season 5 World Championship, having qualified through the regional gauntlet. At Worlds they got to the semi-finals of the playoff bracket before losing to SK Telecom T1. Overall, Martínez had the highest Creep Score (CS) of any player in the tournament.
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. 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.
Awards and honors
International
One-time World champion – 2011
LEC
Three-time LEC champion – Spring 2013, Summer 2013, Spring 2014
EU CS
One-time EU CS champion – Spring 2015
Tournaments
Intel Extreme Masters – Hanover 2011, New York 2011, San Jose 2015
One-time Intel Extreme Masters MVP – Katowice 2013
DreamHack Winter – 2012
Thor Open – 2012
RaidCall Dominance 1 – 2012
ASUS ROG Paris Games Week – 2012
ESL Major Series 10 – 2012
4Players.de All or Nothing 6 – 2012
4Players.de All or Nothing 4 – 2012
League of Champions June – 2012
Cdiscount Cup 4 – 2012
Fight for Pride Promo – 2012
Campus Gaming Party: Berlin – 2012
PLAY RaidCall LoL Showmatch – 2012
Gamers Assembly – 2015
ESL MWC Challenge – 2015