NewBee

NewBee
Location China
Founded 2014
Sponsors Wang "Niuwa" Yue
Divisions Dota 2
Hearthstone

NewBee (Chinese: 新兵) is a electronic sports club based in China. The organization sponsors Dota 2 and Hearthstone squads. NewBee won The International 2014 tournament,[1] taking $5,028,308 prize money.[2] NewBee has set a new Guinness World Records title for greatest prize money in a videogame competition.[3]

History

NewBee was founded by Zhang "Xiao8" Ning and is sponsored by billionaire Wang "Niuwa" Yue. It emerged in early 2014 during the Chinese reshuffle. Originally dubbed "Dream Team 2", the rumors started after captain Zhang "xiao8" Ning made a post on his QQ micro-blogging page, saying "New start in 2014 after 3 years in LGD", forever Dream 5."[4] The rumors later placed Zhang "Mu" Pan, Zeng "Faith" Hongda, Chen "Hao" Zhihao and Wong "ChuaN" Hock Chuan in the team together with xiao8.[5] However, at last, on the 23rd of February 2014, ACE Dota organization announced dubbed team "Newbee" consisted of xiao8, Mu, Hao, Zhou "KingJ" Yang and Gong "ZSMJ" Jian.[6] Then Wang "Banana" Jiao transferred to the team, replacing ZSMJ and Wang "SanSheng" Zhaohui joins the team, replacing KingJ. Tong "mikasa" Junjie became the coach of this team and former Noah's Ark player Li "Li" Peng was the teams leader. After this, NewBee won MarsTV Dota 2 League without losing one game in May 2014[7] and placed in third in WPC League 2014[8] In July, NewBee became the champion of The International 2014. Then the captain of team Zhang "Xiao8" Ning announced temporary retired. NewBee acquires Wang "Rabbit" Zhang from LGD. NewBee won World Cyber Arena 2014, ECL 2014 Autumn and E-Sports World Championship 2014.[9][10] In August, NewBee founded the Hearthstone squads consisted of four players.[11] In December of 2014, the Hearthstone squad of NewBee became the third place in Netease E-sports League Autumn 2014 Premier League.[12] "In 2015, Chen "Hao" Zhihao left NewBee to join VICI Gaming and replaced by Lin "June" Shiyang. After ti4, the player of NewBee Wang "Banana" Jiao became the highest ranking player in terms of prize money won.[13]

Current squad

Current Dota 2 squad

Player position Pseudonym Real name Place of birth Date of birth Date joined
Carry RabbitWang Zhang 2014-08-26
Midlane Mu Zhang Pan 2014-02-23
Offlane JuneLin Shiyang 2015-03-14
Support SanSheng Wang ZhaohuiHuaihua, Hunan 1989-06-13 2014-04-25
Support Banana Wang Jiao 2014-03-09

Notable previous Dota 2 players

Pseudonym Real name Place of birth Date of birth Join Date Leave date
Xiao8Zhang NingShaoyang, Hunan 1989-12-14 2014-02-232014-07-29
HaoChen ZhihaoGuangdong 1991-07-28 2014-02-232015-03-10

Current Hearthstone squad

Pseudonym Real name
wayneWu Wei
God SlayerShen Yang

References

  1. ↑ Lee, Josh. "Chinese newspaper Xinmin Evening News reports on Newbee's TI4 win".
  2. ↑ Lynch, Kevin. "Chinese team Newbee sets videogame prize money record with $5million Dota 2 championship win".
  3. ↑ "NewBee夺冠打破吉尼斯世界纪录" (in Chinese).
  4. ↑ Xiao8 leaving LGD to join dream team?
  5. ↑ Candidates for Chinese Dream Team
  6. ↑ "绝对NB！Xiao8新战队正式命名Newbee" (in Chinese).
  7. ↑ MarsTV Dota 2 League
  8. ↑ WPC League 2014
  9. ↑ 6th E-Sports World Championship player
  10. ↑ 6th E-Sports World Championship result
  11. ↑ "Newbee战队进军炉石 收购HOC成立分部" (in Chinese).
  12. ↑ Netease E-sports League Autumn 2014 Premier League
  13. ↑ Highest Overall Earnings