Every day is Christmas at the Philadelphia Fusion esports mansion. The team's marketing and content director Hung Tran gestured to the towering decorated pine tree to the right of the front door by way of explaining the joke: The pro gamers who live here get whatever they want and do whatever they want. But Christmas wouldn't seem as exciting if it happened every day.

Three different teams with Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng on them have now won major North American League of Legends titles. The third, Team Liquid, instantly became the most memorable yesterday with a 3-0 sweep over 100 Thieves. Just a week after his brother was arrested and charged with murdering their mother, Doublelift opted to travel to Miami and compete in the North American Spring Split.

Yihong Peng, older brother of League of Legends superstar Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng, was arrested and charged with the murder of his mother and assault of his father on Saturday in San Juan Capistrano, California. According to a statement by the Orange County Sheriff's Department, Peng's 59-year-old mother Wei Ping Shen was stabbed to death. His father, Guojon Peng, was critically injured but is "expected to survive".

Kuro "Kuroky" Salehi Takhasomi broke a record yesterday by simply picking a single hero and he continued to widen the lead today. Among the 115 heroes currently in Dota 2, Kuroky has played 108 of them at least once in a competitive Dota game.

The third-place decider match at today's StarSeries i-League Season 4 finals went a little long. A simple best-of-three, Team Liquid and FaZe had a meeting on Inferno that went well past regulation and into multiple overtimes, almost to the length of two regular matches.

In last night's StarLadder i-League Dota Invitational, reigning TI7 champs Team Liquid fell for an early ruse that led to first blood and more for their opponent Mineski.

A long-time veteran of the North American League of Legends scene, Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng wrote at the start of this year that one of his goals was to beat his former teammates on Team SoloMid. He didn't have to wait long.

Tomorrow is the start of the free agency period for the 2018 League of Legends Championship Series, and the stove is delightfully hot.

Team Liquid confirmed last night that League of Legends head coach and former Overwatch coach Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka died yesterday, at age 30.

Even in professional matches, sometimes you have to dive the fountain.

Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng will be playing for Team Liquid for the rest of the League of Legends spring split, after a last-minute trade from Team SoloMid earlier this week. The game's all-time leader regular season kills, he'll need to start racking them up in a hurry.

Chae "Piglet" Gwang-jin is one of the most well-known marksman players in League. Having won the Season 3 World Championships on Korean team SK Telecom T1, he's proved himself as one of the best in his role -- now, he's defining his position in a new lane.

After missing December's Boston Major and struggling the past few months to stay abreast of a tough European Dota 2 scene, it looked like Team Liquid might have to go through the gauntlet of European qualifying for the upcoming Kiev Major. Performing well at the StarLadder i-League StarSeries Season Three finals was their best hope at avoiding such a fate.

Team Liquid should have lost to Team EnVyUs well before the game's eventual ending scoreline of 25-21. But Josh "jdm64" Marzano had other plans, including mowing down the entire enemy team as the last man standing.

Stephen 'MrGameTheory' Takowsky will be Civilization 6's first professional player. That's according to an announcement Team Liquid made yesterday stating it has signed MrGameTheory to head up their new Civilisation team and was embarking on "an initiative to launch Civilization 6 into the world of competitive esports."

A few pivotal matches played out this morning at the Starcraft 2 WCS Season 3 in Poland, including performances from Australia's iaguz and New Zealand's Petraeus, the latter of which got the furthest our region has ever been in the competition.

Oh man. I bet these two League of Legends players thought they were being so clever, teaming up at the very beginning of the match to jump into top lane and surprise their opponent who was all alone up there.

Baron Nashor, in case you don't know, is a big purple monster who lives in the jungle in Summoner's Rift -- the main map in ludicrously popular online multiplayer game League of Legends. Over the course of a game, both five-person teams try to kill baron in order to gain powerful team-wide buffs that help carry them to victory.