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Daniel "Dafran" Francesca

Early Life

Daniel “Dafran” Francesca was born in Denmark on December 27th, 1993.  In his earlier years, he worked at McDonalds as a job before he found his career in streaming and playing Overwatch, a first person shooter game made by Blizzard Entertainment.

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Current team
Team	Atlanta Reign
Role	Flex DPS
League	Overwatch League
Status	Active
Personal information
Name	Daniel Francesca
Born	(1993-12-27) December 27, 1993 Copenhagen, Denmark
Nationality	Danish
Team history
2017	Selfless Gaming
2018-present	Atlanta Reign

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Career

Streaming

Dafran joined Twitch on March 14, 2013. Since then, he has peaked 11,363 viewers and recently averages around 4600. He now has over 350 thousand followers on twitch, a streaming software. Through his streaming career, he has been an influential figure in the OW community.

Gameplay

Dafran has many accounts on Overwatch, including PogChamp, dafran, PogChamp, Burgerflippr, Dekkernn, DeafCookie, x69x420x69xD, EzClap, Arrge, Unnamed, and Stevoo. He mostly plays hitscan heroes including Tracer, Soldier 76, Mccree, Widowmaker, and other damage dealing heroes. Throughout his career, he has played on professional teams such as Selfless Gaming and the soon-to-be Atlanta Reign.

Controversies

Selfless Gaming Scandal

On June 8, 2017, dafran was banned by Blizzard for all Blizzard Sanctioned events and the current competitive season for throwing on his stream and unsportsmanlike conduct during Selfless Gaming’s match against Yikes! a few days before. During this time, Selfless Gaming benched dafran until the competitive season finished. Unfortunately for dafran, Selfless Gaming disbanded on July 7, 2017, which made it release all of its players before dafran could play again.  

Overwatch World Cup 2018 Scandal

In June of 2018, dafran started running for Community Lead of team Denmark, a position that seemed to the majority of the community that would easily be his. Previous to the voting, dafran was found to be abusing Overwatch glitches on his stream. Many people in the community thought that Blizzard would immediately ban him from being elected. To the community’s surprise, Blizzard let dafran run. But as the results came out, a Denmark streamer named Xperiana won the vote. After it was announced, many streamers and players called Blizzard out for supposedly rigging the vote, seeing how dafran is the current 5th most popular Overwatch streamer and the top Danish ,Streamer, with the next Danish streamer being Kabaji, who is more than 150 thousand followers behind him. What was even more suspicious, is that currently, Xperiana, the winner of the vote, has 921 followers on twitch, comparing to dafran, who has over 350 thousand. Although it was never confirmed by Blizzard whether the results were changed, this sparked a controversial debate between Xperiana’s supporters and what it seemed to be the rest of the OW community. Xperiana and her supporters called dafran toxic and other things that criticized his impact on the community. Many of dafran supporters, instead of attacking Xperiana, although some did, most of them criticized Blizzard and their policies, saying that Blizzard should have made a public announcement saying that dafran was disqualified, instead of allegedly changing the results.

Dafran Throwing Ladder Scandal:

In August 2018, Dafran was streaming on twitch, and what many of the community calls “trolling”. As a result of this, dafran’s account got banned.

Quitting Overwatch:

On November 7, 2018, dafran tweeted, “The end. I hate the game. Thought I could love it again and have passion but its impossible, I always end up soft throwing. Contract ended, Overwatch uninstalled, Mcdonalds here I come. For real though thanks for everything u have given me OW Community.” This immediately made headlines in many esports news sources and YouTube channels. This came as a shock to many of the community, especially since he had just been signed on a OWL team. But just a day after, right after it seemed like everyone had given up hope of him coming back, he tweeted, “Still in ATL Reign, didnt quit like I said. I messed up, dont know what to say except sorry to the community, my fans and ATL. It wasnt jebait, sometimes I have these days and make dumb mistakes. Going forward im going to stream less and focus on making myself and my team better” This had mixed responses from the community. Some seemed supportive of him, saying that it was important for him to relax and stay healthy, while others said that he backed down or didn’t have the nerve to stand up for his mental health.