Darshan Upadhyaya

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rdf:langString Darshan Upadhyaya

rdf:langString League of Legends

rdf:langString Darshan

rdf:langString LCS Academy League

rdf:langString Canadian–American

rdf:langString Top laner

rdf:langString Good Game University

rdf:langString Cloud9 Academy

rdf:langString Monomaniac eSports

rdf:langString Team Dynamic

rdf:langString Darshan Upadhyaya, better known mononymously as Darshan, (formerly ZionSpartan), is a Canadian-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. ZionSpartan and CLG also won the 2015 NALCS Summer Split as well as the 2016 NALCS Spring Split. 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. 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 2022. As of 2021, Darshan is currently the top laner for Cloud9 Academy in the NA LCS Academy League.

rdf:langString * 2× NA LCS champion