Some of the rumors about the great Chinese reshuffle have been true and movement has been made in the team, Tongfu. Veronica and LongDD leave the team. LongDD has been practicing with LGD.cn although they haven’t confirmed a move. Where this leaves Veronica however, is still unknown. Banana from the team For.Love will join the Tongfu lineup as well as the former Panda player Yaobi. Will be interesting to see the latest moves in this ongoing shuffle. The source of this news is SGamer (Chinese).

We have an interview from Gamefy, they have been to Shanghai to see the player, Jian ‘ZSMJ’ Gong from Vici Gaming. The interview is in Chinese but has subtitles. Watch the interview now below;

A new patch is coming to DotA 2 which will see the introduction of Timbersaw to captain’s mode, hopefully we will see him in some exciting competitive games soon! Certain items such as boots and dust will have their own graphics for when they are dropped which looks pretty cool! For a full list of patch changes, head over to the Dota 2 developers forum now!

And finally, details of the new G-1 league are on the horizon with some exciting developments. There will be Asian open qualifiers on the 16-17th March and for the first time, the G-1 league is opening its doors to the wider community with North American and European qualifiers, these are likely to take place in April. The qualification system all gets a bit confusing and for a complete low down check out it detailed over at joinDotA.

If your team wants to take place in the G-1 league qualifiers, these are the contacts you need to know;

Signups (for Open Asian Qualifiers): baizhou_ning@163.com
Contact for SEA teams: Tuski，Skype iD： Krishna0390
Contact for Chinese teams: QQ：758393526