Shiphtur
Shiphtur | |||||||||||||||
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Personal information | |||||||||||||||
Name | Danny Le | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||||
Games | League of Legends | ||||||||||||||
Playing career | Until 2018 | ||||||||||||||
Role | Midlane | ||||||||||||||
Team history | |||||||||||||||
2012 | Dirt Nap Gaming.Panda | ||||||||||||||
2012 | Monomaniac Evito | ||||||||||||||
2012–2013 | Team Dynamic | ||||||||||||||
2013–2014 | Team Coast | ||||||||||||||
2014–2016 | Dignitas | ||||||||||||||
2016 | Apex Gaming | ||||||||||||||
2017 | Delta Fox | ||||||||||||||
2017–2018 | Meme Stream Dream Team | ||||||||||||||
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Danny Le, better known as Shiphtur (pronounced "shifter"), is a Canadian retired League of Legends player who played support for Delta Fox of the NA Challenger Series. Shiphtur was the first esports player to be granted a P-1 athletic visa from the United States Department of State.[1][2] On May 2, 2014, he joined Dignitas along with Darshan "ZionSpartan" Upadhyaya.[3] On May 17, 2016, Apex Gaming acquired Dignitas' NA Challenger team including Shiphtur.[4]
On September 26, 2016, Apex and Dignitas were acquired by the Philadelphia 76ers,[5] and Shiphtur was released from the Apex Roster but not added to Dignitas.
Tournament results[]
Team Apex[]
- 9th — 2016 NA LCS Summer regular season
- 5th–6th — 2016 NA LCS Summer playoffs
References[]
- ^ LeJacq, Yannick (July 20, 2013). "Score! Professional video gamers awarded athletic visas". NBC News. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ^ Welch, Chris (August 11, 2013). "'League of Legends' gamer granted US visa recognizing him as professional athlete". The Verge. Vox Media. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ^ Lee, Timothy (May 2, 2014). "Team Dignitas signs Shiphtur and ZionSpartan to LCS team". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 21, 2020.
- ^ Rand, Emily (May 18, 2016). "Dignitas transfers NACS spot to Apex, Shiphtur and Apollo also transferred". theScore esports. Score Media and Gaming Inc. Retrieved March 21, 2020.
- ^ Rovell, Darren (September 26, 2016). "76ers acquire esports teams Dignitas and Apex". ESPN. Retrieved October 9, 2016.
Categories:
- 1993 births
- Living people
- Canadian people of Vietnamese descent
- Canadian esports players
- Sportspeople from Vancouver
- League of Legends mid lane players
- Team Coast (esports) players
- Dignitas (esports) players
- Apex Gaming players
- Twitch (service) streamers
- Esports player stubs