Newbee have dominated the Chinese Dota Pit League Season 5 qualifiers. In an flawless run, the Chinese titans clinch the allocated spot and will head to Croatia for the LAN event. Newbee will compete for the $125,000 base prize pool against seven other top teams from around the world in January.
By defeating Invictus Gaming 2-0, we have qualified for the @DotaPit Season 5 LAN Finals in January.
See you there! pic.twitter.com/aY0bMZklYt— Newbee (@NewbeeCN) November 3, 2016
Newbee continue to exert dominance over their peers as they executed a flawless run through the Chinese Dota Pit League Season 5 qualifiers. Taking down Invictus Gaming 2:0 punched their ticket for the LAN event held in Croatia in late January 2017.
Newbee swept through ViCi Gaming and Invictus Gaming – not once, but twice – with precision and relative ease.
The outcome is not a big surprise as the team has been directly invited to participate in Boston Major.
Big changes for Newbee were made for the Fall Major 2016 season as the team replaced three of its members – Zhang “Mu” Pan, Chen “Hao” Zhihao and Wong “ChuaN” Hock Chuan with Veteran player Zeng “Faith” Hongda, Song “Sccc” Chun and Xu “uuu9” Han.
Despite the changes, the team has had an equally strong showing already, barely a hint of struggle with the new additions in the roster. Newbee has already been quite busy, claiming two second place finishes at LANs – MDL 2016 and Nanyang Cruise Cup and first place at Shanghai Dota 2 Open #2.
Dota Pit League Season 5
This season only two teams have been directly invited instead of four as in Season 4. China will be able to participate with their own qualifier sending a representative from the region and CIS will have their own qualifier to send a team from.
Six teams will qualify from the groups in each of the regions, joining the two directly invited teams – Wings Gaming and Digital Chaos to compete in the The Dota Pit League Season 5 LAN event scheduled to take place January 19-22nd.
The eight teams will compete for the $125,000 base prize pool that can be increased through in-game ticket sales on sale for $1.99 HERE and sets available soon.
Dota Pit League Season 5 regional qualifiers
- Six regional groups total
- EU – 2 groups – Group 1: Alliance, Kaipi, OG, ATN
- EU – 2 groups – Group 2: Team Secret, Ad Finem, Team Liquid, Flipsid3 Tactics
- CIS – 1 group – Vega, Virtus.Pro, Na’Vi, Team Empire
- SEA – 1 group – Mineski, Team Faceless*, Execration, MVP
- CN – 1 group – Newbee, Invictus Gaming, ViCi Gaming, EHOME
- NA – 1 group – Complexity, Team NP, Evil Geniuses, Team Freedom
- Double Elimination Group Stage format
- Beginning October 15
- One winner from each group will advance to the LAN
*Team Faceless replaced Fnatic
Dota Pit League Season 5 Lan event
- Eight teams total
- Six qualified teams – Team Secret, Virtus.Pro, Newbee + 3 TBD
- Two directly invited teams – Wings Gaming/Digital Chaos
- LAN location in Split, Croatia
- January 19th-22nd
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