A new professional gaming team formed under the Newbee banner has a lot of people talking, partly because it has a roster that is made up of a few ex-high-level players, but it's the inclusion of a pro-female in one of the game's top tier organisations that has people turning heads.
The line up of players includes Zhang "xiao8" Ning, Luo "Ferrari_430" Feichi,Wong "ChuaN" Hock, Wang "Zei9" Yue and Bi "Axx" Xia. Axx is the female member of the team who was a surprise addition in a sport that is almost exclusively dominated by male players at the top end and when there are females, they tend to operate in sex segregated teams.
That's not the case with Newbee Boss though, as the team is named.
What's also interesting to note about it though, is that while many people consider it a bit of a troll team, it does include two players who have won Internationals in the past. While they did it under different organisations, Xiao8 and Ferrari_430 have both ascended tor the highest levels of the sport, so have plenty of talent and experience to bring to bear.
We will have to wait and see to find out for sure how well the team will perform when put under pressure, but early qualifiers and test games suggest it could be competitive in the upper eschelons of DotA 2 competition, even if it seems unlikely to ever break into the top few teams in the world. It is the Newbee B team after all.
Still, if any of these players does exceptionally well, and people will certainly be looking at Axx to see if she can stand out, there's nothing stopping these players from graduating to major teams or even earning a spot in top-tier competitions themselves.
