SANTA MONICA, CA-JULY 25, 2013: left to right-Darshan (ZionSpartan) Upadhyaya, Josh (NintendudeX) Atkins, Danny (Shiphtur) Le, and Brandon (DontMashMe) Phan, members of the eSports team going by the name of Team Coast, play a match in the League Championship Series for League of Legends, a tournament for a PC-based video game at Riot Studios in Santa Monica on July 25, 2013. Danny (Shiptur) Le from Edmonton, Canada on May 29, 2013 became the first eSports player to get a P1-A visa to play on a U.S.-based eSports team. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)
League of Legends star gets visa as pro athlete.
