Darshan Upadhyaya
Darshan | ||||||||||||||
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Team | Cloud9 Academy | |||||||||||||
Game | League of Legends | |||||||||||||
Role | Top laner | |||||||||||||
League | LCS Academy League | |||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||
Name | Darshan Upadhyaya | |||||||||||||
Born | November 12, 1994 | |||||||||||||
Nationality | Canadian–American | |||||||||||||
Career information | ||||||||||||||
Playing career | 2012–present | |||||||||||||
Team history | ||||||||||||||
2012 | Monomaniac eSports | |||||||||||||
2012–2013 | Team Dynamic | |||||||||||||
2013 | Good Game University | |||||||||||||
2013–2014 | Team Coast | |||||||||||||
2014 | Team Dignitas | |||||||||||||
2015–2019 | Counter Logic Gaming | |||||||||||||
2019–2020 | GGS Academy | |||||||||||||
2021–present | Cloud9 Academy | |||||||||||||
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Darshan Upadhyaya, known by his in-game names Darshan and ZionSpartan, 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; in 2020 he resumed playing as ZionSpartan; and in 2021 he has returned to Darshan.[4][5]
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.[6] As of 2021, Darshan is currently the top laner for Cloud9 Academy in the NA LCS Academy League.
Early life[]
Upadhyaya was born on November 12, 1994.[7][8] He resided in Poway, California before joining professional esports.[8]
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."[9]
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
- ^ Meet The Best League of Legends Academy Team In North America
- ^ https://esportsobserver.com/na-lcs-players-association-president/
- ^ Golden Guardians [@GoldenGuardians] (November 12, 2020). "On his birthday, everybody calls him ZionSpartan" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ a b Fenn, Mike (June 18, 2013). "This 18-year-old is skipping college to become a League of Legends pro". Daily Dot. Retrieved May 13, 2021.
- ^ "Even His Teacher Calls Him ZionSpartan". Youtube. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- League of Legends top lane players
- Counter Logic Gaming players
- Dignitas (esports) players
- Golden Guardians players
- Team Curse players
- American esports players
- Canadian expatriates in the United States
- People from Poway, California
- Living people
- 1994 births
- Esports player stubs