Team Newbee, China’s Dota ‘dream team’, loses debut match: what just happened?

After much anticipation, the Dota 2 Chinese dream team, Team Newbee finally made its debut tonight in the third season of the Sina Cup Supernova Dota 2 Open. And they lost.

Yes, you read that right. Team Newbee lost its debut match 2-1 against Team CIS in the Sina Cup Season 3. And it wasn’t just a simple loss. It was an unexpected loss. Here’s what the Dota 2 people on Twitter have to say about it:

So why is this shocking? Don’t all teams lose at some point? First of all, as I mentioned earlier, this is the debut match of the team dubbed a Dota 2 Chinese dream team after the second post-The International 2013 shuffle. Although this player lineup wasn’t really the intended roster, the team is still composed of five experienced players, three of which — Chen ‘Hao’ Zhihao, Zhang ‘Mu’ Pan, and Zhou ‘KingJ’ Yang —were together in TongFu. No one was expecting them to lose in the manner they did.