Topping off the list of direct invites to the Nanyang Championships is Newbee, the second place finishers at EPICENTER.
After being one win away from becoming the victors of the EPICENTER LAN event, Newbee has recieved another chance at an international LAN event. Newbee will be joining Team Secret, Fnatic, EG, Digital Chaos and three other to be decided teams in Shanghai, China from the 6th to 10th of July to battle for a $200,000 prize pool at the Nanyang Championships season two.
As of this announcement, five of the eight teams participating at the LAN event have been decided. Other than Newbee, another team representing China will also be invited, the invite will be based on the Chinese qualifiers taking place in the near future.
As of late, Newbee has been on a roll, rocketing to second place on Gosurankings after their 29 win streak and strong performance at the EPICENTER LAN finals, where they were edged out by Liquid in the grand finals. Reflecting the team's strong performance, Newbee hold an 88% win rate across the games play for the Manila Majors Chinese qualifiers and EPICENTER LAN event this month, only dropping a series against OG (Gosuranking 6th) and Liquid (Gosuranking 1st) in their 17 games played.
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