Manila Major Chinese Qualifiers: schedule, groups, team profiles

The Manila Major Chinese Qualifiers kick off on Tuesday, May 3rd, at 04:00 CEST. The eight invited teams, along with two qualified ones, will compete over the coveted spot at the Dota Major of the spring season.

Get up to speed with the Manila Major Chinese Qualifiers schedule, participating teams, format, groups, and streams!

Ten teams – EHOME, Newbee, CDEC.Y, CDEC, Invictus Gaming, TongFu, IG.Vitality, FTD Club.B, ViCi Gaming and Newbee.Young – will be competing to represent China at the Manila Major.

The Manila Major will be held between June 7-12, at the Mall of Asia Arena, in Manila, Philippines, with a set prize-pool of $3,000,000. Sixteen teams will compete in the main event hosted by PGL and Valve.

Team Secret, Team Liquid, Evil Geniuses, MVP.Phoenix, Wings Gaming, ViCi Gaming Reborn, Fnatic, OG, compLexity Gaming, Alliance, Na’vi and LGD Gaming have already been directly invited to the event.

Manila Major Chinese Qualifiers format

• The ten teams have been divided into two Round Robin groups of five.
• Top two teams will advance to a double elimination bracket.
• Round robin first place teams will face the second place from the other group.
• Grand Final is Best-of-five.
• The first place team from the Manila Major Chinese Qualifiers will advance to the main event in Manila, Philippines.

Manila Major Chinese Qualifiers groups

Group A

• EHOME
• CDEC
• IG.Vitality
• FTD Club.B
• Vici Gaming (Winner of the CN Open Qualifiers #1)

Group B

• Newbee
• CDEC.Youth
• Invictus Gaming
• TongFu
• Newbee.Young (Winner of the CN Open Qualifiers #2)

Manila Major Chinese Qualifiers schedule

Tuesday, May 3rd

• 04:00 CEST – CDEC vs. VG
• 04:00 CEST – iG.Vit vs. FTD.B
• 06:30 CEST – EHOME vs. CDEC
• 06:30 CEST – VG vs. iG.Vit
• 09:00 CEST – iG vs. TongFu
• 09:00 CEST – CDEC.Y vs. NewB.Y
• 11:30 CEST – iG.Vit vs. EHOME
• 11:30 CEST – FTD.B vs. VG
• 14:00 CEST – NewB vs. CDEC.Y
• 14:00 CEST – NewB.Y vs. iG

Wednesday, May 4th

• 04:00 CEST – CDEC vs. iG.Vit
• 04:00 CEST – EHOME vs. FTD.B
• 06:30 CEST – TongFu vs. NewB.Y
• 06:30 CEST – iG vs. NewB
• 09:00 CEST – EHOME vs. VG
• 09:00 CEST – FTD.B vs. CDEC
• 11:30 CEST – NewB vs. TongFu
• 11:30 CEST – CDEC.Y vs. iG
• 14:00 CEST – NewB vs. NewB.Y
• 14:00 CEST – TongFu vs. CDEC.Y

Manila Major Chinese Qualifiers Streams

Manila Major Chinese Qualifiers streams: English

Manila Major Regional Qualifiers streams: Russian

Manila Major Regional Qualifiers streams: Chinese

Manila Major Chinese Qualifiers teams

Invictus Gaming

The significant roster changes since TI5 did not help further Invictus Gaming. They were not directly invited to the Shanghai Major and were forced to participate in the Regional Chinese qualifiers. Falling short there, with a 5-6th place finish, they missed the second Valve sponsored Major of the year.

For the Spring Season Luo “Ferrari_430” Feichi was the only member to remain on the main Invictus Gaming roster.

Joining him were four of the former iG Vitality players – Zhao “qd” Shungeng, Ye “BoBoKa” Zhibiao, Lin “Xxs” Jing and Chen “Rong” Jingwu.

Invictus Gaming roster:

Invictus Gaming roster

Zhao “qd” Shungeng
Luo “Ferrari_430” Feichi
Lin “Xxs” Jingi
Ye “BoBoKa” Zhibiao
Chen “Rong” Jingwu

Newbee

Newbee upon arrival in Seattle, for TI5

Team Newbee erupted onto the Dota 2 scene in 2014, having emerged from nowhere to claim the most sought after glory of being crowned the Champions of The International. The Chinese “Dream Team 2″ shocked the world with their victory and then disappeared from the scene.

After placing 13th at TI5, Chen “Hao” Zhihao returned to the team, while Wang “Rabbit” Zhang and Lin “June” Shiyang departed.

Wong “ChuaN” Hock transferred to Newbee in time for the Shanghai Major.

The team then had an equally lackluster performance for the Frankfurt Major, taking 15th place and forfeited their spot in WCA 2015 as the event was underway.

This was the second time in less than a month that Newbee forfeit their attendance at an event. The first was at Game Show Global eSports Cup on November 27th, at the last minute. Their late withdrawal then also caused a decrease in participating teams for the event, having left no time for organizers to secure a replacement.

For the Spring season Meng “Xiao2lei” Lei and Zhang “le” Xuanhao moved to Newbee.Young, and Damien “kphoenii” Chok and Hu “Kaka” Liangzhi joined the team. Kaka had last played for EHOME and kphoenii is an Australian player who played for MVP.Phoenix and EHOME.King.

Newbee roster:

Chen “Hao” Zhihao
Zhang Mu Pan
Damien “kphoenii” Chok
Hu “Kaka” Liangzhi
Wong “ChuaN” Hock Chuan

Newbee.Young

Newbee was put together in early 2014, during the Chinese reshuffle that happened prior to The International 4. It was originally nicknamed “Dream Team 2” until February 2014, when the season transfer window was closed and the team was officially named Newbee. Newbee went on to win The International 4 in Seattle. In October 2014, Newbee Young – the organization’s youth squad, was established and placed seventh at the National Electronic Sports Tournament 2014, only two weeks later.

With only two of the members who participated in the TI5 Chinese qualifiers, the team is mostly reformed and looking to make a name.

A stroke of luck came the young team’s way. As Invictus Gaming, qualified for the Frankfurt Major through the Chinese Qualifier, the organization has extended the invitation to replace them to the team that was next in line – Newbee Young. The team had come in third place, following Invictus Gaming and Newbee.

Newbee.Young came in last place at the event unfortunately but took eighth place at the Dota 2 Radiant and Dire Cup and third at the Shanghai Dota 2 Open.

With the great Chinese roster reshuffle in March, Meng “Xiao2lei” Lei and Zhang “le” Xuanhao moved to Newbee.Young from the main squad and recruited Fan “FaN” Yixuan from ViCi Gaming Potential.

Newbee Young roster:

Tan “JiaJia” Lijia
“Sccc” Song Chun
Peng “Li”Li
Li “chisbug” Chen
“Mrrr” Meng Duo

Team FanTuan B

Team FanTuan is a team registered by a group of Chinese players to compete in the upcoming Major. Most of the players are newer players in the Chinese scene and are looking to establish a foothold in the region.

They have been participating in the local events and qualifiers with average results.

Team FanTuan roster:

Huo “Xll” Xiaole
Ding “DXM” Zhenghao
Fang “Ran” Xu
Zhao “PrettyHaw” Jiabin
Xiaobai “Ainiyo” Ye

IG.Vitality

On December 6th, Invictus Gaming announced that they had signed a new youth squad, called iG Vitality. The team has since been playing in some qualifier matches as well as minor and major local events.

The new squad was able to take 4th at Dota 2 Radiant & Dire Cup 2015, fifth at ECL 2015 Dota 2 Autumn and eighth at Shanghai Dota 2 Open. At the Shanghai Majors Chinese qualifiers, iG Vitality had a fantastic run, falling to Newbee 0:2 in the lower bracket finals.

For the Manila Major/TI6 team registration, the organization completely changed the roster and signed on a new lineup as the majority of the team was moved to the main squad.

IG.Vitality roster:

Zhang “Yuno” Chengjun
Xu “Fran” Zichen
Yang “InJuly” Xiaodong
Gao “dogfight” Tianpeng
Su “super” Peng

EHOME

Daryl “iceiceice” Koh Pei Xiang and Lu “Fenrir” Chao, two former Vici Gaming players, joined the EHOME roster last month. Zhang “LaNm” Zhicheng switched to the carry position and iceiceice started playing support alongside Fenrir. The changes were drastic, but the Chinese team was set on making big improvements coming into the new season after a 9th-12th place finish at the Shanghai Major.

EHOME received a direct invite at the end of January, after they took third at the Nanyang Championships LAN, fourth at the Frankfurt Major, received a direct invite to the Shanghai Major and took the championship title for Dota 2 Radiant & Dire Cup.

The new lineup participated in the fourth season/week of the H-CUP, where they took second place and 7-8th place at ESL One Manila.

EHOME roster:

Daryl “iceiceice” Koh
Wang “old chicken” Zhiyong
Ren “eLeVeN” Yangwei
Lu “Fenrir” Chao
Zhang “LaNm” Zhicheng

ViCi Gaming

ViCi Gaming looked to Fan “rOtk” Bai and Chen “Cty” Tianyu to revitalize their squad, adding the two star players to the lineup for the Spring Season.

The organization then took on Xu “Hym” Zhi and Jiang “jdh” Donghao – fresh blood who joined the team.

ViCi Gaming has participated in the weekly H-Cup series with sub-average results so far but they took the first spot for the region in the open qualifiers with stunning and strong performances.

ViCi Gaming roster:

Liu “Sylar” Jiajun
Chen “Cty” Tianyu
Bai “rOtk” Fan
Xu “BurNIng” Zhilei
Xu “Hym” Zhi

CDEC

CDEC Gaming during The International 5

The team has undergone drastic changes in their lineup, adding veteran star players – Zhang “Rabbit” Wang, Yao “Yao” ZhengZheng and Xie “Super” Jun Hao to the mix.

The support-duo, Liu “Garder” Xinzhou and Fu “Q” Bin remained on the team’s Manila Major and TI6 roster.

The new roster has taken first place in the last two H-Cup Series.

CDEC roster:

Wang “Rabbit” Zhang
Xie “Super” Junhao
Yao “Yao” Zhengzheng
Fu “Q” Bin
Liu “Garder” Xinzhou

TongFu

TongFu Gaming is an Esports organization backed by TongFu Porridge, a Chinese food company. Created in September 2011, they have been known to be one of the top Chinese Dota 2 teams at various points.

The new roster that was registered in the Spring Season has had positive results in the H-Cup weekly series, taking second place in three seasons.

TongFu roster:

 Xu “uuu9” Han
 Xu “Lin” Ziyang
 Zeng “Faith” Hongda
 Luo “Lpc” Puchao
Yuan “DDR” Zhenghao