Esports Program Staff

Dr. Chris “Doc” Haskell is the current head coach of Boise State Esports. Dr. Haskell founded the Esports Program along with Dr. Brett Shelton in 2017 and has served as the programs head coach since it’s founding. Dr. Haskell was also an Educational Technology professor for Boise State before founding the program. Doc has won multiple awards for his work with Boise State Esports including being named NACE 2020 Program Director of the Year and 2021’s Esports Collegiate Ambassador of the year.

Alex Moore currently serves as Boise State Epsorts Program Assistant and head coach for Boise State’s Valorant and Halo teams. Coach Moore originally served as League of Legends varsity player under the gamertag “NotKoba” although this specific name didn’t prevent members of the program from referring to him as “Koba”. He graduated as a student 2019 and has served as Dr. Hakells assistant and the second in command for Boise State Esports ever since.

Dr. Brett E. Shelton has been studying video games in education before it was cool, all the way back to 2004(ish). He has taught classes at the university level in games and simulations for over 15 years, and has received national grants for building technology-based games that transform the way people learn about complex concepts. He was also an early researcher of AR and VR for education, and continues in these lines of research having published more than 50 peer reviewed articles. He is proud to have co-founded the varsity Boise State Esports team, and continues in service with the program.

Payton “Wayton” Wilkin is a highly successful Rocket League content creator and a former Boise State varsity Rocket League player. He regularly posts videos about Rocket League and competitive gaming on his YouTube channel which has over half a million subscribers and regularly pulls in millions of views.

He currently serves as the head coach for Boise State’s varsity Rocket League team.

Elliot has been playing amongst the best players in the world for the last 2 years in the Overwatch League. Some notable teams he’s been on include the Paris Eternal, Washington Justice, Team Envy and Angry Titans.

He’s currently taking a break from competing due to a wrist injury, and has agreed to share his knowledge that with the Broncos he’s gathered from playing at the highest level from the last couple of years.

Trung ‘Litiq’ Tran is a professional Hearthstone player who’s been playing the game since 2014 and playes for SPGeSports. If not coaching you can usually find him playing open / cash cups or playing in top Legend ranks and is a perennial Top 100 finisher on EU. Litiq lives in Amsterdam.  When Boise State moved Hearthstone to a “supported” game, his coaching was discontinued.

Nicholas “Shifty” Travis was the coach of the London Spitfire Academy team known as the British Hurricane and winner of the 2018 Contenders Series. “Shifty” has been a professional Overwatch coaching since 2017 on some of the biggest stages in the world including pros and teams across NA, EU, and SEA.  He also serves at the Overwatch coach for Becker College.  Mr. Travis was named the Director of Clarke University and has stepped away for that opportunity.

Daumantas “Ryuu” Krugliakovas has worked as a freelance coach and analyst for Boise State since 2017. His expertise in Overwatch League (Former analyst for Florida Mayhem), Rocket League (Multiple RLCS and RLRS Teams) make him an invaluable resource to the talented students at Boise State (You can read more about him: http://about.me/ryuutsubasa). “Ryuu” lives in Lithuania.