Newbee

The year is 2014 – Newbee spread fear and terror among the established Dota 2 teams. We also like to remember their spectacular victory at the TI4, which made the Vici Gaming fans gape. Because in just 15 minutes the team won the final in the International.

The team was able to maintain the good performance, but unfortunately without success on paper. Only last year did Newbee come second in the TI7, when the team lost to Team Liquid in a thrilling final. One can rightly say that the team also openly carries its weaknesses with it. While the original lineup has since scattered, the team still maintains 5 featured streamers that have firmly established themselves since 2016. Since then, the team has been honing its team skills and new strategies. In addition, the team has two real aces up its sleeve in Kaka and Faith, because both players play in variable positions and are happy to adapt to the course of the game.

Another piece of news reached us before the tournament, SanSheng returned to Newbee on May 14th – for those who can’t remember; He coached Newbee into the Victorious TI4. Individual top performance of the players and SanSheng’s expertise could give the team the victory without a doubt. Here are your facts:

Biggest success so far:  Winner of The International 4, Second in The International 7

Team Roster:

Carry: Moogy
Mid: Sccc
Offlane: kpii
Roamer/Support: Kaka
Hard Support: Faith (Captain)

League of Legends explained – LoL for Dummies

The name of probably the most influential eSports title of the last few years – “League of Legends” – has been heard quickly; but what exactly it is all about is rather difficult to grasp, especially for the layman. Therefore, this complex game is broken down here to simple basic elements, understandable for everyone.

League of Legends or “LoL” is a video game published by Riot Games and belongs to the genre (game category) “MOBA”. MOBA is a sub-genre of strategy games and stands for “Multiplayer Online Battle Arena” – so it is an online team game that is played on a closed map that is always the same.

On this map, usually the so-called “Summoner’s Rift”, the teams compete in a five-against-five match with the goal of destroying the enemy base, the winner being the team that destroys the enemy’s main building, the “Nexus”. This usually takes between 25 and 35 minutes, but can also take an hour.

Each player controls one of over 140 available champions. These are selected before the start of each game and matched with the team. Each of these champions has its own skillset – i.e. abilities – and thus differs fundamentally from the others. Therefore, on the one hand it is important to perfect these champions as much as possible, but at the same time to know the skills of all champions in order to be able to compete effectively against them. This is also a long-term task, since new champions are added to the game all the time.