Enrique Cedeño Martínez was born on April 24, 1992, in Jumilla, in the Murcia region of Spain, and grew up nearby in Molina de Segura (Wikipedia). Like most of the earliest generation of professional League of Legends players, he came up through the game’s amateur online scene in Spain in the late 2000s and early 2010s, well before organized academies, salaries, or federations existed for competitive gaming in the country, and before esports was a recognized career path in Spanish media.

Cedeño Martínez turned professional in 2011 with myRevenge, winning the Intel Extreme Masters Season V League of Legends invitational before he and the roster were picked up by Fnatic later that year. Playing top lane, he was part of the Fnatic roster — alongside Cyanide, Shushei, Mellisan and Krepo — that beat aAa 2-1 to win the inaugural League of Legends Season 1 World Championship at DreamHack Summer in Jönköping, Sweden, in June 2011; xPeke moved from top lane into the mid lane role that would define the rest of his career shortly afterward (Wikipedia).

By far his most famous moment came nearly two years later. At Intel Extreme Masters Season VII in Katowice in March 2013, playing mid lane for Fnatic against SK Gaming, xPeke — down to 39 HP on Kassadin — ran past SK’s defenders and destroyed their Nexus alone to close out the match, a play now simply referred to in League of Legends history as “The xPeke” and still widely cited as one of the most replayed individual highlights the game has ever produced (GataGames). The same year, Fnatic won the EU LCS Spring and Summer 2013 splits with xPeke as mid laner — he was named Summer Split playoffs MVP — and the team reached the semifinals of the 2013 Season 3 World Championship in Los Angeles, finishing third-fourth after a loss to Royal Club.

Fnatic added a second EU LCS title in the Spring 2014 split before losing the Summer 2014 final 3-1 to Alliance, then qualified for the Season 4 World Championship that October, where the team was eliminated in the group stage — closing out xPeke’s three-and-a-half-year run with the organization. In December 2014, he left Fnatic to found his own team, Origen, officially established on December 7, 2014, with a founding roster built around himself, Amazing, and Mithy, announced later that month; he took on a player-manager role rather than a purely competitive one (Wikipedia).

Origen qualified directly for the 2015 Season 5 World Championship in its debut season, reaching the semifinals before losing to eventual champions SK Telecom T1 and posting the tournament’s highest individual creep score along the way — a strong on-field showing for a brand-new organization built around its own founder (Wikipedia). Origen finished runner-up in the EU LCS Spring 2016 split behind G2 Esports, but results declined sharply after that: the team went 0-13 in the EU LCS Spring 2017 split and was relegated from the league. xPeke’s own player contract was formally removed from Riot Games’ database in May 2017, confirming his retirement from active competition, though he stayed on as Origen’s owner and public face.

There is no verified, publicly disclosed figure for xPeke’s personal annual income at any point in his career. As an active pro from 2011 to 2017 he would have drawn a Fnatic and then Origen salary on top of tournament winnings, but neither organization ever published individual player pay for that era, which predates the far larger broadcast and franchise revenues that came into League of Legends esports later in the 2010s. Since retiring from competitive play, his income sources have shifted toward occasional Twitch streaming — his channel has seen long inactive stretches in recent years — YouTube content, and whatever return, if any, his ownership stake in the Astralis Group generates, none of which is broken out publicly (TwitchTracker).

xPeke’s tournament prize money is one of the more precisely documented parts of his finances: Esports Earnings credits him with $164,460.73 in total winnings from 53 tournaments across his career, with the bulk concentrated in his peak Fnatic years — roughly $53,540 in 2013 alone (about a third of his lifetime total), largely from the EU LCS Spring and Summer splits and the Season 3 World Championship run, plus a further $28,000 in 2014 and $43,271 in 2015 during his first year with Origen at the Season 5 World Championship (Esports Earnings).

None of his team salaries from Fnatic or Origen were ever publicly disclosed, which was standard practice for League of Legends esports before the LEC’s 2019 franchising overhaul introduced more standardized, though still largely private, player contracts (Esports Earnings).

During his playing career, xPeke competed under Fnatic’s long-running hardware partnership with SteelSeries, among other team-level sponsors of the era, though no individually negotiated personal endorsement contract for xPeke specifically has been documented separately from those organizational deals. He was also described in period esports coverage as a Red Bull-affiliated athlete around 2013-2014, though the relationship was informal enough that by 2017 industry reporters were unsure whether Red Bull still considered him a sponsored athlete at all, and no dollar figure for that arrangement was ever made public (Slingshot Esports). As with most players from League of Legends’ pre-franchise era, there is no evidence of a large standalone personal endorsement deal on the scale seen with today’s top LEC or LCS talent.

A note on sourcing before this section: this profile was originally briefed around Origen being sold to Fnatic or to OG. Direct research does not support either premise — Origen was never owned by Fnatic, and OG is a separate, unrelated organization. What actually happened is that in late 2018, RFRSH Entertainment, the Danish company behind CS:GO team Astralis, acquired a majority stake in Origen, which allowed the team to secure one of the ten founding franchise slots in Riot Games’ newly restructured LEC for 2019; those founding LEC slots carried a reported entry fee of roughly €10.5 million ($12 million), an organizational cost paid by RFRSH rather than a personal payout to xPeke (Dot Esports; Dexerto). xPeke retained a minority ownership stake and shifted into more of an ambassador role after the acquisition.

RFRSH then spun Astralis and Origen out into the independent Astralis Group in July 2019 (Esports Insider), and on September 15, 2020, folded Origen’s League of Legends roster and brand entirely into the Astralis name, ending Origen as a separate organization; xPeke became a shareholder in the merged Astralis Group at that point (Wikipedia). The size of his stake, and any income it has produced, has never been publicly disclosed — Astralis Group is a private company, and its LEC franchise slot has since changed hands again, with Karmine Corp acquiring it in October 2023 (Sheepesports). Separately, RFRSH itself sold its wider esports team portfolio, including Astralis and what had been Origen, to a new ownership group for a reported $16.7 million in 2019 — again a transaction at the parent-company level, not a payout credited to xPeke individually (Nordic9).

No reliable public record of xPeke purchasing property, its price, or other major personal assets was located. As is typical for players from League of Legends’ early competitive era, most public reporting on his career centers on results and team affiliations rather than personal finances, and this profile does not assign a value to any real estate or major asset he may personally own absent a verified deed, listing, or on-record disclosure.