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With the three biggest Chinese teams announcing their rosters in the last day of the 2016 Fall Shuffle, the rumors regarding a possible retirement from Chuan, sadly, becomes true.
A few days ago Wong 'ChuaN' Hock Chuan announced to his fans via one of his streams that he is prospecting an indefinite break from the competitive scene, saying that the negotiations with EHOME did not go as he wanted and also mentioning that he is a bit annoyed about all the negative comments directed towards his performance with Newbee at The International 6.
Newbee - only kpii and Kaka remain from the old roster
With three of their TI6 players retiring or taking a break, Newbee brought in two Chinese youngsters and the much more experienced Zeng 'Faith' Hongda, who spent the last year with Tong Fu. Coming from the same team as Faith, Xu 'uuu9' Han will take the carry role for Newbee starting this fall, while the mid lane will be played by Song 'Sccc' Chun, who was promoted to the main team from Newbee.Young.
Newbee roster from position 1 to 5:
Xu 'uuu9' Han
Song 'Sccc' Chun
Damien 'kpii' Chok
Zeng 'Faith' Hongda
Hu 'Kaka' Liangzhi
EHOME brings in Sylar
Although they had an amazing run at TI6, going from the wild cards to a top six finish in Seattle this year, EHOME lost two of their stars. Daryl Koh 'iceiceice' Pei Xiang left the team to build his own, and Lu 'Fenrir' Chao, who is reported to join a new Vici Gaming squad. Replacing them are Liu 'Sylar' Jiajun, and TI5 runner up with CDEC Gaming, Liu 'Garder' Xinzhou.
EHOME roster from position 1 to 5:
Liu 'Sylar' Jiajun
Wang 'old chicken' Zhiyong
Ren 'ELeVeN' Yangwei
Zhang 'LaNm' Zhicheng
Liu 'Garder' Xinzhou
Vici Gaming Reborn gets promoted to Vici Gaming
The team to make the fewest changes is Vici Gaming Reborn. The organization only replaced Wang 'Nono' Xin with Zheng 'ghost' Jie, ex member of FTD Club C. Despite the disappointing bottom four finish at TI6, VG.R had a way better year than the main squad of the Chinese organization, resulting in their promotion to Vici Gaming.
Vici Gaming roster from position 1 to 5:
Yang 'Zyf' Pu
Zheng 'ghost' Jie
Zhou 'Yang' Haiyang
Xu 'fy' Linsen
Leong 'ddc' Fat-meng
