In Overwatch, the ambitious player Dafran was once a top pro with a promising career ahead. But he quit last September and became a farmer. Until now, it was unclear what lay behind this decision. Now Dafran himself has broken the silence: it was likely due to an undesirable teammate.
Who is Dafran? The former esports pro Daniel “Dafran” Francesca hails from Denmark and is best known for his pro time in Overwatch. There, he played in the Overwatch League (OWL) for the Atlanta Reign team and was considered one of the best players when it came to his mechanical skills.
In this regard, he was similar to another ex-Overwatch pro, xQc. And like him, Dafran was known as a wild hothead and savage who often attracted controversy.
Dafran ended his Overwatch career in 2019. Instead, he decided to stream and chill on Twitch. He exchanged the life of a pro for that of an entertainer.
However, this was abruptly cut short when he attempted to restart his pro career in Valorant. There, he flipped out during a tournament, earning a lifetime tournament ban. Later, when he complained about it on Twitch, he was banned there as well.
Since then, he has withdrawn from streaming and apparently became a farmer and vegetable grower.
However, it was previously unclear what had prompted him to end his Overwatch career. This has now been revealed.
Teammate was to blame – According to Dafran, “the biggest piece of shit in the whole world!”
This was an important reason for the career’s end: A significant reason for Dafran’s career-ending decision was not the controversial new tank meta or the controversial esports decisions by Blizzard, but a teammate named Dong-hyeong “DACO” Seo.
This Korean player was also part of Dafran’s team, Atlanta Reign, as an off-tank at the time.
In a Twitch stream, Dafran revealed what had bothered him so much about Daco. Now that DACO has not played competitively since 2020, the time is right for this revelation.
DACO, according to Dafran, was the reason he had had enough:
One of the main reasons I left the OWL was the awful DACO. I’m just putting this out there. DACO was a piece of shit! The biggest piece of shit in the world. […] He was never on time for practice. When we did VOD reviews, he didn’t show up. And then he always created drama. When Kodak played, he didn’t want to anymore. And then he trolled in scrims, but on the big stage [i.e., in the tournament], everything was fine again.
Curiously, Dafran himself was not a model of reliability either, as his viewers pointed out in the stream. After all, his end in Valorant was sealed by missing a tournament date.
However, he insisted in the stream that he had always shown up on time for practice.
This raises the question of whether Dafran might still be playing Overwatch professionally today, and whether he would experience the new rules in tournaments in 2022 despite the delay of Overwatch 2.
