| Id: | Darshan |
| Darshan Upadhyaya | |
| Birth Date: | 12 November 1994 |
| Nationality: | Canadian–American |
| Role: | Top laner |
| League: | LCS Academy League |
| Game: | League of Legends |
| Career Start: | 2012 |
| Career End: | 2023 |
| Years1: | 2012 |
| Team1: | Monomaniac eSports |
| Years2: | 2012–2013 |
| Team2: | Team Dynamic |
| Years3: | 2013 |
| Team3: | Good Game University |
| Years4: | 2013–2014 |
| Team4: | Team Coast |
| Years5: | 2014 |
| Team5: | Team Dignitas |
| Years6: | 2015–2019 |
| Team6: | Counter Logic Gaming |
| Years7: | 2019–2020 |
| Team7: | GGS Academy |
| Years8: | 2021–2022 |
| Team8: | Cloud9 Academy |
| Years9: | 2023 |
| Team9: | 100 Thieves Challengers |
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Darshan Upadhyaya, better known mononymously as Darshan and as ZionSpartan, is a Canadian-born American League of Legends player who played professionally from 2012 - 2023. He is most known for his four-and-a-half-year tenure as Counter Logic Gaming's top laner from November 2014 to 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 held that that position until 2022 or 2023.[6]
Upadhyaya was born on November 12, 1994, and is of Indian origin.[7] [8] [9] He resided in Poway, California, before joining professional esports.
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."[10]
Upadhyaya announced on Twitter in November 2023 that he was retiring from eSports.[11]