The news is quite surprising coming from Newbee. The esports giant from China is again changing players in their Dota 2 team. This time the captain Zeng “Faith” Hongda was transferred to Newbee’s second team, Mr. Game Boy.
Although recently won fourth place in the MDL Macau but through an announcement on the Newbee fanpage, the decision was made through the team’s internal decision. In addition, Wen “awen” Lipeng, who had previously been a standin for Thiay “JT” Jun Wen at MDL Macau, finally returned to being a player at Mr Game Boy.
Here’s the composition of the current Dota 2 players from Mr. Game Boy:
- Lijia “JiaJia” Tan
- Feichi “Ferrari_430” Luo
- Lipeng “awake” Wen
- Xiaolei “Catyou” Tang
- Hongda “Faith” Zeng
- Guo “Key” Li
Faith has been a Newbee player since September 2016. At that time, she entered along with Xu “Moogy” Han and Song “Sccc” Chun after Newbee had to be ranked 9-12 at The International 2016. This new roster does not necessarily get a positive result. In fact they had slumped during the Boston Major and Kiev Major.
They began to rise when they won the second place in the Manila Masters and won first place in two tournaments, Zotac Cup Masters and Galaxy Battle.
Newbee was one of the seeded teams. Their performance is very dominant by winning second place in the group stage. During the playoffs, they managed to reach the grand final after defeating LGD. Youngver in the upper bracket.
Unfortunately, they were slaughtered by Team Liquid with a score of 3-0 which made Faith’s hopes of reaching TI for the second time to disappear. At that time, he successfully won an aegis trophy while with Invictus Gaming on TI2.
After TI 7, the appearance of the TI4 winning team was fairly stable with the success of winning Perfect World Masters and ESL One Genting 2018.
These results made them ranked seventh in the Dota Pro Circuit which made them immediately pass to TI8. Unfortunately, they must be eliminated early in the grand tournament. They must surrender from Winstrike Team on the lower bracket.
One by one the players finally decided to move. Damien “kpii” Chok finally played in Mineski and Hu “kaka” Liangzhi finally moved to Keen Gaming.
Newbee’s appearance continued to decline despite having made various substitutions. Until now, they haven’t got a single point at the Dota Pro Circuit 2018/2019. Newbee himself has not announced who will replace Faith. But rumored, Li “Iceice” Peng, the former Wings Gaming player who will replace his position.
He was seen playing with Newbee at the JIB Spring Cup. Even so, it hasn’t been confirmed whether he will become a player later. What do you think of Friend Revival? Will Iceice be the player who will replace Faith?
