Darshan Upadhyaya
| ZionSpartan Darshan | |||||||||
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| Current team | |||||||||
| Team | GGS Academy | ||||||||
| Role | Top Laner | ||||||||
| Games | League of Legends | ||||||||
| League | NA Academy League | ||||||||
| Status | Active | ||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||
| Name | Darshan Upadhyaya | ||||||||
| Nickname(s) | ZionSpartan | ||||||||
| Born | November 12, 1994 | ||||||||
| Nationality | Canadian–American | ||||||||
| Team history | |||||||||
| 2012 | Monomaniac eSports | ||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Team Dynamic | ||||||||
| 2013 | Good Game University | ||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Team Coast | ||||||||
| 2014 | Team Dignitas | ||||||||
| 2014–2019 | Counter Logic Gaming | ||||||||
| 2019 | CLG Academy | ||||||||
| 2019–present | GGS Academy | ||||||||
| Career highlights and awards | |||||||||
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Darshan Upadhyaya, better known by his in-game name ZionSpartan and mononymously as Darshan, is a Canada-born American professional League of Legends player. He is most known for his four and a half year long tenure as Counter Logic Gaming's top laner from November 2014–May 2019, a time during which CLG and ZionSpartan made both the 2015 World Championship and the 2016 World Championship.[1][2] ZionSpartan and CLG also won the 2015 NALCS Summer Split as well as the 2016 NALCS Spring Split.[3] From the start of his career to November 2015, Upadhyaya played under the screenname ZionSpartan; from November 2015–2019, he played under the screenname Darshan; and from 2020 to the present, he has resumed playing as ZionSpartan.[4]
Darshan was elected the inaugural president of the LCS Players Association in 2018, a loose union-like advocacy organization that represents the interests of contracted players in the LCS, and continues to hold that position as of 2020.[5] As of 2020, ZionSpartan is currently the top laner for Golden Guardians Academy in the NA Academy League.
Early life
Darshan Upadhyaya resided in Poway, California before joining professional eSports.[6]
While growing up, Upadhyaya was often called by his peers his in-game name, ZionSpartan. This was branded by the NALCS in a video titled "Even his teacher called him ZionSpartan."[7]
Tournament results
Counter Logic Gaming
- 1st – 2015 Summer NA LCS
- 12–13th – 2015 League of Legends World Championship
- 2nd – IEM X San Jose
- 1st – 2016 Spring NA LCS
- 2nd – 2016 Mid-Season Invitational
- 4th – 2016 NA LCS Summer regular season
- 4th – 2016 NA LCS Summer playoffs
References
- ^ Steven Asarch. "'League of Legends' CLG Manages To Beat Crowd Favorite TSM In NA LCS Finals". iDigitalTimes.com. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- ^ "TSM and CLG are in the NA LCS finals (again)". yahoo.com. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- ^ "G2 Esports, Counter Logic Gaming are the EU and NA LCS champions". yahoo.com. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- ^ https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/10141/darshan-changes-name-back-to-zionspartan-embraces-his-past
- ^ https://esportsobserver.com/na-lcs-players-association-president/
- ^ "This 18-year-old is skipping college to become a League of Legends pro". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- ^ "Even His Teacher Calls Him ZionSpartan". Youtube. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
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