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[–] YellowTM ago
As much as I enjoy Slacks' last two videos, he got the history of the team at TI4 wrong, so I just want to correct that. Newbee were the big dogs just behind DK although some would argue iG, it was Vici Gaming who surprisingly came out on top of the group stages (check out these predictions on 2p and the reddit pre-TI4 thread which I'd say were pretty good predictions given how the last few tournaments went at the time).
This video makes them seem like underdogs, when really they were a huge threat and actually had a seriously disappointing group stage and even had to do the tiebreaker to make it to the main event. I remember being super excited that Titan was going to knock them out of the main event, but then Newbee won 2-1 and then Newbee just beat everyone in the Bubble bracket to make it to the upper bracket of the main event. Newbee actually were really bad against the Western teams because they barely left China before TI and I think the only time they played vs western teams was in WPC. And the only western team they met in the upper bracket of TI4 was EG who preferred the to sit back and let Arteezy or Mason farm for a while and was not a good match up for Newbee's death ball strat.
TL;DR Newbee weren't the underdogs in TI4, they fared badly vs western teams in the group stages but got their shit together later