Roughly a week until MDL Macau 2019 is place to begin, one of the premiere teams attending had to pull out because of medical complications.

LGD Gambling, The International 2018 runner-ups, declared through articles to their official Twitter and Weibo accounts that they would be pulling from the approaching event. The main reason behind this very abrupt cancellation being the wellness of the offlane participant Yang"Chalice''` Shenyi.

Chalice underwent exactly what the group is calling a small operation following the group's successful qualification for another Dota Guru Circuit Major, DreamLeague Season 11. Everything appeared nice initially, but Chalice afterwards endured postoperation ulceration that resulted in an illness.


This isn't the first-time LGD has had to pull from an event due to medical motives, and it is not even the very first time Chalice was in the middle of these withdrawals. It occurred as recently as December 2018 when the group pulled from DPL Season 6 mentioning participant health because.

The group was playing one stand-in, that being Guo"XM" Hongcheng out of LGD's youth group CDEC. XM was known as replace Lu"Perhaps" Yao (the current booster at dota2-boost) who had been granted an elongated leave from the team for physical and personal motives following their fourth-place finish in the Chongqing Major.

That fracture has up to now seen the midlaner becoming married and loving his honeymoon.

LGD probably determined that permitting their staying players to break along with some excess time prior to the DreamLeague Season 11 Stockholm Major starts to discover a remedy to such holes in their roster was worth more than playing at a non-DPC occasion. As of this moment, the group is sitting in a solid fourth place at the DPC ranks as the season approaches the halfway mark.

There's been an outpouring of assistance in the other organizations along with the lovers from the Dota community that are wishing Chalice that the very best and a quick recovery.

Newbee will probably be taking LGD's place in Macau after finishing fourth at the Chinese qualifiers for the function. The once dominant group has fought over the last year to get anything moving at the Dota expert scene.