Imaqtpie

Michael Santana, better known as Imaqtpie ( "I'm a "), is an American League of Legends player. Formerly a professional player for Team Dignitas, he retired from professional play in 2014 to pursue a full-time streaming career on Twitch. He is one of League of Legends ' largest online personalities with over 2.6 million followers on Twitch. In 2017 in an interview with Rolling Stone it was revealed he earns $2 million annually from streaming. At a young age, he played a lot of video games, particularly SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs. He first began playing League of Legends shortly after the game's creation because it was free to play. After a few months, he began competing in local tournaments, where he was noticed by other players such as William "scarra" Li, who recruited him in April 2011 as an AD Carry on the team Rock Solid. According to Santana, his parents were proud of his career. "Having them support me and want me to do my best was very helpful for me to really focus on improving and doing what I had to do to be the best." A month later, the team won 1st place at IGN ProLeague (IPL) Season 3 in Atlantic City, defeating Epik Gamer 2–1 in the finals and earning a $10,000 prize for the team.

2012 In 2012, the team won 1st place at the LoLPro.com Curse Invitational in San Francisco and earned a $20,000 prize for the team. Later that year the team placed 2nd at the MLG Summer Championship in Raleigh, North Carolina losing to Team Curse in the finals, but both teams were disqualified and not awarded a prize after an investigation by MLG found the teams guilty of collusion. In September, Team Dignitas placed 2nd in the Season 2 North American Regional Finals in Seattle, Washington at PAX Prime, losing to Team SoloMid in the finals but qualifying the team to compete in the Season 2 World Championship in Los Angeles. The team placed last during the group stage without a single win, but their participation at Worlds qualified the team to compete in the Season 3 Spring Split. TSM top laner Dyrus later publicly apologized for accidentally revealing Team Dignitas's secret strategy to their opponents prior to the group stage, and admitted that the strategy might have given the team the upper hand in the tournament. "[Leaking the strategy] put Team Dignitas on tilt and lowered their morale... For those who say they would have lost anyway, that's not true because [TSM] lost to [the strategy] four times..."

2013 In 2013, the team started off strong, going 16–5 during the Spring regular season in the first 21 games, When asked if players needed to be replaced due to underperforming, teammate William "scarra" Li said Santana was underrated by others in the scene due to his lack of publicity on social media in the past, saying he considered Santana and his partner Jordan "Patoy" Blackburn to be "the best bot lane in North America... they're just insanely good." Li also praised Santana's knowledge of the game, saying "He conceptualizes the game really really well, so he's like an AD Carry shot caller, which is very very unusual... He is one of the players [on the team] that would be very incredibly hard to replace."

2014 In spring of 2014, Dignitas placed 4th during the regular season and did not qualify to compete in the playoffs. In the summer split, they placed 6th with a 13–15 record. In a vlog uploaded to his YouTube channel, Santana explained his retirement from professional League of Legends, saying he enjoyed playing with friends more than competing professionally:

2015–present After leaving Dignitas, Santana became one of the largest League of Legends streamers, with over 2.3 million followers on Twitch as of September 2018. His YouTube channel has over 1.6 million subscribers and 660 million views as of November 2020. According to an interview with Rolling Stone in 2017 Santana earns over $2 million a year as a Twitch streamer, not including corporate sponsorships. In 2017, Santana was a nominee for the Teen Choice Awards Choice Gamer award.

In the summer of 2017, Santana briefly returned to competitive play, this time in the North American Challenger Series when Echo Fox announced a new sister team called Delta Fox. Santana joined its roster with former Team Dignitas teammates William "scarra" Li, Joedat "Voyboy" Esfahani, Danny "Shiphtur" Le, and retired Team SoloMid player Marcus "Dyrus" Hill. An unconventional decision to create a team with a roster exclusively of retired players, fans began referring to the team as the "Meme Team," prompting then-CEO Jace Hall to say "This is not a joke." The team defeated Toronto eSports 2–0 in the 2017 Spring Qualifier before ending the Spring season 1–1–3. The team disbanded at the end of the summer split following a 0–10 record. When asked about the team's results, Echo Fox owner Rick Fox said "...while the record may not show it, I have to think that it has reignited their competitive fire." He currently lives in California. Santana confirmed on his stream in early 2020 that he and Lisha were no longer together.

Notable tournament results Career tournament results Date Event Placing Team Record Opponent October 69, 2011 IGN ProLeague (IPL) Season 3 Gold 1st Team Dignitas 2–1 Epik Gamer February 1125, 2012 LoLPro.com Curse Invitational Gold 1st Team Dignitas 2–0 Team Curse August 2426, 2012 MLG Summer Championship Sliver 2nd Team Dignitas 2–3 Team Curse August 30 September 2, 2012 LCS Season 2 North American Regional Finals Sliver 2nd Team Dignitas 0–2 Team SoloMid October 413, 2012 LCS Season 2 World Championship 12th Team Dignitas 0–3 February 719, 2013 LCS Season 3 North American Spring Regular Season Bronze 3rd Team Dignitas 17–11 April 2628, 2013 LCS Season 3 North American Spring Playoffs 6th Team Dignitas 1–2 Good Game University June 1216, 2013 LCS Season 3 North American Summer Regular Season 5th Team Dignitas 13–15 October 30 September 1, 2013 LCS Season 3 North American Summer Playoffs 4th Team Dignitas 0–2 Cloud9 January 16 April 6, 2014 LCS 2014 North American Spring Regular Season 4th Team Dignitas 12–16 May 23 August 3, 2014 LCS 2014 North American Summer Regular Season 6th Team Dignitas 13–15 North American Challenger Series(NACS) 2017 Spring Qualifiers Gold 1st Delta Fox 2–0 Toronto eSports January 25 March 1, 2017 North American Challenger Series(NACS) 2017 Spring Regular Season 5th Delta Fox 1–1–3 North American Challenger Series(NACS) 2017 Summer Qualifiers 5th Delta Fox 3–1 Team Liquid Academy North American Challenger Series(NACS) 2017 Summer Regular Season 6th Delta Fox 0–10