Newbee, the esports organisation best known for winning The International 4 Dota 2 tournament, have been banned from professional Dota 2 in China by the Chinese Dota 2 Professional Association for match fixing.

The ban sees them unable to compete in all Chinese Dota 2 Professional Association affiliated leagues, including the CDA-DPL Professional League, all IMBATV events and all MarsTV events.

The Newbee players have also received bans from these competitions, with the Chinese Dota 2 Professional Association confirming that this is a lifetime ban for all involved and they have been removed from the Chinese Dota 2 Professional Association along with the Newbee organisation.

While this is not yet a worldwide ban for the team, the Chinese Dota 2 Professional Association has passed the information over to Valve, and it certainly wouldn’t be a surprise to see them hand out a ban themselves based on previous cases.

The five players of Newbee, Xu "Moogy" Han, Yin "Aq" Rui, Wen "Wizard" Lipeng, Yan "Waixi" Chao and Zeng "Faith" Hongda will likely now struggle to sustain a career in professional Dota.

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Faith is perhaps the best known player on the team, having won The International 2 with Invictus Gaming in 2012 and coming second at The International 7 with Newbee in 2017. After such an illustrious career where he has won $1,758,817 in prize money it seems crazy that he would be involved with match fixing.

While the specific matches that were fixed have not been revealed, it is believed that they took place in the China Dota2 Professional League Season 2 and the DPL-CDA Professional League Season 1.

Unsurprisingly the team has been disqualified from the DPL-CDA Professional League Season 1 in which they were currently competing. The side had only won one series in the competition so far, so were unlikely to win, but now will finish in last place.

For years Newbee has been one of the biggest organisations in the world of Dota. In 2014 they won The International 4 after forming shortly before the competition as somewhat of a Chinese super team. They took the grand finals in convincing fashion in one of the shortest finals ever at The International. While they never managed to reach the same heights again they did make it to the final of The International 7 and were incredibly close to becoming the first two time TI champions. However, Team Liquid managed to take them down and that left OG to become the first two time TI champions at The International 9 last year.

This graph represents how often heroes were picked together. Bolder line means more matches in pair, bigger node means hero was picked more often. Color of a node or an edge represents winrate, red being closer to 0%, blue being closer to 100% and grey being around 50%. Minimum match count for a pair is set to 2.

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NewBee is an Chinese dota 2 team, called by Dota 2 community a Dream Team. The team was formed in February 2014 by one of the finest Chinese players primarily with the aim to compete at The International 4. Names such as Xiao8, Hao, Mu, ZSMJ and Banana wont leave anyone indifferent.

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What is the NewBee team in Dota 2?

NewBee is an Chinese dota 2 team, called by Dota 2 community a Dream Team. The team was formed in February 2014 by one of the finest Chinese players primarily with the aim to compete at The International 4. Names such as Xiao8, Hao, Mu, ZSMJ and Banana wont leave anyone indifferent.

Who is the most successful Dota 2 team?

However, the most successful Dota 2 eSports team as of January 2024 is OG, having amassed total winnings of over 36 million U.S. dollars through eSports tournaments. OG is also home to the most successful Dota 2 player of all time, N0tail.

Who is in the NewBee roster 2014?

However, at last, on 23 February 2014, ACE Dota organization announced dubbed team "Newbee" consisted of xiao8, Mu, Hao, Zhou "KingJ" Yang and Gong "ZSMJ" Jian.

What is the most viewed Dota 2 tournament?

The International 10, which took place in 2021, is still the most-viewed Dota 2 event in history, with more than a million more viewers than the 2023 edition.