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#1 NEWBEE
Newbee is getting called the Vengeful Spirit of China this year after their 3-0 lose against Liquid in last year’s Grand Final. I don’t know how many of you have watched the post-game reaction or the “True Sight” Valve released on the TI final but if you have then I can bet my money that you will forever remember the look in SCCC’s eyes. That alone was scary enough and people took no time to caption it with “The revenge of the fallen”.
Let’s take a look at Newbee’s team this year.
Xu “Moogy” Han
Song “SCCC” Chun
Damien “kpii" Chok
Hu “Kaka” Liangzhi
Zeng “Faith” Hongda
You need to fear the lineup of Newbee. It does not matter what team you are playing for, you just know that these 5 players have achieved the top tier of their respective roles. While most teams decided to change the roster in post TI shuffle, the runner-ups of TI7 stayed together. And you can’t blame them for Liquid’s amazing team-play, Gh’s plays or Kuro’s captaincy. Liquid just appeared to be the best team on that day. Last year SCCC was a monster in midlane, Moogy was unstoppably carrying every game and kpii managed to turn even the worst offlane situation to his favor. Kaka’s position 4 support was a headache for every team Newbee played against. Newbee still depends on Kaka to make plays in most of the situation. I mean you don’t see a 9k MMR support giving his best every day, do you?
Last year Newbee made one amazing run just to get trashed and humiliated in the Grand Finals. The team that did not break a sweat to reach finals was destroyed by Team Liquid with a 3-0 whitewash win. The only team to win a TI with a 3-0 scoreline. Their loss gave us the moment of SCCC’s “Super Villain” look when “True Sight” was released. We also saw moogy’s heartbreak. That moment created the hype that this year Newbee will be back with a vengeance.
DPC summary of Newbee
Even though Newbee has gotten their revenge on Team Liquid early on this season but they seem to be not confident enough on the Majors. Newbee won ESL One Genting and Perfect World Masters but both were minor with low DPC point. Every time they played in a major they seem to be lost. They finished 3rd and 4th in multiple Majors but that is definitely not enough for a team that’s aiming TI. Newbee really needs to get on the line if they want to win this year’s TI.
Winning Chances
Newbee has not won a single Major this year but that does not mean they will perform awfully in this TI. Honestly, it’s just like the last year when Newbee only won Galaxy battles and Zotac Cup in the whole year then proved themselves in the TI. With the extended period between last DPC event and TI8 giving them a lot of space to practice and also giving them a huge time to work on the last patch with the patch being released. A lot of people might just say Newbee is going to be a No-show in this TI but Newbee has proved themselves before.
