BorasLegend

BorasLegend

Medal record
Men's FIFA
World Championship
	Las Vegas VGCS	2013
	Paris ESWC	2013
Swedish Championship
	Dreamhack	2009
	Dreamhack	2012
	Dreamhack	2013
	Dreamhack	2014
Major Competitions
	Fotball Online	2009
	E-Football Challange	2012
	Metallsvenskan	2013
	Cashligan Vinter	2013
	Cashligan Vår	2013
	Cashligan Sommar	2013
	Maxinge Challenge	2014
	Showmatch Spring	2014
	E-Football Challange	2014
	Cashligan Vinter	2015
	Cashligan Vår	2015
FIFA
Competitor for  Sweden

Ivan Lapanje, more known as BorasLegend, is a Swedish competitive FIFA 16 player and currently ranked nr 1 in Sweden.^[1] He won the Las Vegas World Challenge Series in 2013 and is a multiple Swedish Champion. He is the top competitive earner of the FIFA (video game series)^[2] and widely regarded as one of the greatest FIFA players in history.^[3]

Biography and career

Born in Croatia 1 September 1992 he came to Sweden as an infant due to the Bosnian war and Croatian War of Independence. At age of 7 his family moved from the small village Gödestad to Borås where he has lived since. His gamertag BorasLegend is a reference to his home town Borås. He played in Swedish football club IF Elfsborg youth academy for 8 years, but quitted at age of 15. Two years later he quitted his football career due to injuries.

He started to play FIFA (video game series) at early age but got his big interest for it when he quitted his football career. In his first competition in 2009 he came to the final of a big offline tournament but lost to Avan “aaviboy” Rashid.^[4] Some days later he got his revenge in the unofficial Swedish Championship at Dreamhack Winter were he beat the same Avan Rashid with 3-1.^[5]

After his triumph he took a break to focus on studies and work but came back in 2012 to compete in the Swedish Championship. He managed to go all the way to the final where he eventually lost to Filip “Stek” Persson after a nail-biting best of three series.^[6] The defeat was a big reverse. After the loss Ivan Lapanje decided to put full effort on Fifa and quitted his job at Hennes & Mauritz.In the autumn of 2012 he took home the Swedish E-Football challenge^[7] after beating Filip Persson in semi and the future rival Lukas “Lukasinho” Gummesson in the final.

In the beginning of 2013 he attended the Virgin Gaming Challenge Series in Las Vegas. He managed to go all the way and win the world title after defeating Rafael “Ralfitita” Riobo in the final with 3-1.^[8] He also took home 140.000 USD which is still by date one of the biggest single winnings in e-sport history.^[9] A month after the triumph in Las Vegas he won the Swedish competition Metallsvenskan in Örebro after beating Lukas Gummesson in the final.^[10] But the sweetest win for the Swede was the Swedish Championship on Dreamhack Summer where he got his revenge after previous year’s final loss. He beat Lukas Gummesson in the final and claimed his second Swedish national title and the first official Swedish title.^[11] This summer he got his first sponsor signing after joining the Copenhagen Wolves.

Ivan Lapanje took part in the ESWC in France for the first time in the autumn of 2013. He went to semifinal were he lost to Frenchmen Vincent “Vinch” Hoffman who later won the competition. In the bronze placement game the swede beat the Dutchmen Alban “azzurra” Xhemajli.^[12]

In 2014 Ivan Lapanje joined the e-sport organization Alliance. His first competition was Maxinge Challenge in Finland where he reached final but loss to Lukas “Lukasinho” Gummesson after three long games that lead to a penalty shootout.^[13] The same Lukasinho beat BorasLegend two months later in the finals of Karlstad Open.^[14] After several final defeats that year, Boras stepped up in the Swedish championship in the summer of 2014. BorasLegend defended his Swedish national title after defeating the up comer Lucas “Afro” Wallman in the final with 1-0, 3-2.^[15] He continued his winning streak by winning the online competition Showmatch Spring against the Italian Diego Campagnani.^[16] Some months later he returned to the ESWC and Paris. This time he suffered another semifinal loss against the Iranian Navid “Adamant” Borhani who eventually won the final.

In 2015 he joined the Swedish side Trig Esports.^[17] This year was his toughest in his career where he was very unsatisfied with the Fifa 15 engine. Still he managed to win the Swedish online competition Cashligan in April for the first time since 2013 after winning the final against Christian “chrillegbg” Bergenholtz. In May 2015, BorasLegend got eliminated from the Swedish Championship in quarterfinals after a penalty shootout against Rasmus “pettsson” Pettersson^[18] and was thus unable to defend his title which he had held for 2 years. In November 2015 he announced on his Facebook Page that he is leaving Trig E-sport due to their economic problems.

Other

Ivan Lapanje has featured as commentator for the Swedish e-sport project E-svenskan along with Jesper Hussfelt. In 2015 he was also featured in the ongoing webb TV show “Sportbladet Fifa Challenge” where he travels home to Swedish football players to challenge them in FIFA (video game series).^[19] He is a dedicated S.S. Lazio supporter.

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