Team China make major roster changes ahead of Blizzcon

Mert

October 25, 2017

China's World Cup roster has undergone major changes ahead of Blizzcon due to visa issues. uNdeAD, Shy, mg and 5King will not be joining Team China at Blizzcon after competing in the Shanghai qualifiers. In their place, leave, YuanFang2, Time and zhufanjun have been added to the roster, joining Eileen and YaoYao from the original six.

Despite recent rumours that players from Miraculous Youngster were going to make up the large majority of the new roster, only two players from the dominant Chinese team will make their way to America. Team China now has one representative from LGD Gaming, two from Miraculous Youngster, two from Oh My God and one Miracle Team One. The full effect of these changes on the team's play will remain unknown until their match against Team France in the quarterfinals, with concerns raised by some over YuanFang2 and zhufanjun's overlapping hero pools at the support position.

This is one of the many times visa issues have hindered competitors in the World Cup, with Team Russia experiencing similar problems before the Katowice World Cup Qualifiers. More recently in other events, Tonic was unable to secure a visa to compete with 123 in the Contenders Season One playoffs in Burbank.

Team China's roster is now:

Ou "Eileen" Yiliang (DPS)
Huang "leave" Xin (DPS)
Bian "Time" Yutao (Tank)
Li "YaoYao" Haibo (Tank)
He "zhufanjun" Junjian (Support)
Cao "YuanFang2" Jiale (Support)

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some say eileen has one leg

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blizzard is so inexperienced when it comes to non solo e-sport games
dunno why overwatch is the only more person e-sport game left in 2017 that doesn't lock rosters after big qualifiers ...

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China would literally not be able to compete if the rosters were locked due to visa issues experienced by members of the original roster...

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That's what you call 'blindly respond without even look at the content'. LUL

Or you think China want to change their roster and this is the best line-up they can put up?

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Their inexperience seems to give them more foresight than you've demonstrated in a number of your comments though.

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trash player and a trash reader

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I don't think they can do well in OWWC,3 Lucio/Mercy players ,CC.5king LGD.130 and MT1.PP all didn't get the visa.Both Zhufanjun and yuanfang2 are Zen/Ana players, don't have enough time to build the synergy is another unfavorable factor.

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visa issues aha, that's why they have been rumoured already 2 months ago by the Chinese scene that they practise with this exact team.

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KuroiRyuu9625

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Sounds like you think you know more than the people actually involved, interesting.

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Can they beat the baguette boys? :thinking:

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um... yes

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No LateYoung? No YangX1aoLg? No Creed? This roaster really does not look any stronger than the previous roster. I guess leave would be better than uNdeAD as he has been underwhelming, but that's about it.

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Mert

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Word is that up to ten Chinese players were unable to secure a visa, perhaps explaining why that is.

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Here's some insight fro ma Chinese player about this, he wrote a letter to Blizzard and asked for it to be translated and posted on the English Reddit. It's very unfortunate that they won't be able to compete with the original team, but hopefully they'll still be able to have competitive matches.

Reddit Thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/78w6cx/china_world_cup_visa_issue_letter_from_player_to/

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