Team Dota 2 loses suspiciously in tournament, popular streamer swears to eat poop if they’re innocent

StarLadder ImbaTV China Regional Qualifier Dota 2 The Minor that officially took place yesterday saw the match of Newbee and Avengers. At the end of the match, Newbee won with a result of 2:1, however a wave of suspicion was immediately aroused by the Avengers’ unusual behavior during the match, even Newbee did not understand. Why did my team win.​

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In the first game, the Avengers overpowered Newbee, and as a matter of course they won. In the second game, continuing to maintain the performance of the previous game, the Avengers quickly gained the upper hand, forcing Newbee into a disadvantage. However, in the later part of game 2, the Avengers kept making inexplicable mistakes, ruining a good position. Even so surprised and confused by the result of the 2nd game, Newbee also posted on his group’s official Weibo that:

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Even when they won the third game, Newbee said bluntly: “The third game obviously they played very well, but in the end, we won.” Many comments under Newbee’s Weibo all said that the Avengers had a negative performance phenomenon, intentionally losing the match.
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The strangeness of this match also caught the eye of Zhang “xiao8” Ning – one of China’s veteran streamers. Xiao8 is also nicknamed Director 8 because of his great performances as a captain while playing, he is a professional gamer and famous coach of Chinese Dota 2 – who accompanies Newbee to win the title. championship at The International 4. Xiao8 livestreamed and raised his doubts around this match.​

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According to xiao8, despite having a big mid-game advantage, the Avengers didn’t use any Smoke of Deceits to prolong their team’s advantage. He also pointed out that the Avengerls player Morphling was very suspicious, not using his skill to get out of ganks, resulting in him dying in vain, without any benefit. with Newbee. After that, xiao8 replayed the segments several times, zooming in on the player’s mistakes and making it clear that he had too much time and opportunity to get out of situations that were unfavorable to him. proves that there was cheating here, not because he played “chicken”.

The tournament organizer, Imba TV, also said that now Valve is intervening to investigate and clarify the case of whether the Avengers engaged in settlement behavior and intentionally lost the match. The former xiao8 player also confirmed his suspicions with certainty, he even told the audience watching the livestream that he would be willing to livestream to eat feces if the Avengers’ investigation results were clean.​