Who will rise to China Div I

The last matches in the second division of China will be held on December 17. And already on January 3, viewers can see the game of the top teams of this region. But what is the current situation in Division II and how has CDEC influenced it?

The new CDEC roster failed to fulfill the hopes of the organization and lost all matches in the first two weeks. Moreover, they lost even to the main outsider of the group, Neptune Gaming, with a score of 1-2.

Therefore, when the team did not show up for the match against ShenZhen in the 3rd week of Dota Pro Circuit 2021/2022, many took it as a sign of hopelessness. After all, after 5 defeats, CDEC was already guaranteed to be eliminated from Division II.

Some perceived this as unsportsmanlike behavior, as mentioned earlier. But, as it turned out later, the DPC rules allow you to miss one match, considering it as a forfeit defeat. This was known on Twitter during the discussion by the former Alliance manager, now the sports director of HellRaisers, Maria Gunina:

As it soon became clear, the reason for refusing the match was. The Independent Fair Play Monitoring group, which was assembled at the initiative of LGD Gaming to verify Zhang «xiao8» Ning and all of the club's players, found some violations. It is worth saying that all participants of PSG.LGD, CDEC and other teams were checked.

The investigation revealed violations by CDEC player, Wong «mks-» Sim An. He is suspected of matchfixing. As a result, the organization decided to kick mks- from the organization. All materials of the investigation were sent to the organizers of DPC League in China, Perfect World, and Valve.

Their last and not decisive match for them, CDEC played with a substitution. Their opponents were Xtreme Gaming, where play former Elephant player Zhang «Paparazi» Chengjun, and former Vici Gaming supports Ding «Dy» Cong and Xiong «Pyw» Jiahan.

Looking at the rosters and the overall situation, it comes as no surprise that CDEC's winning odds were high. And what a surprise it was when they were able to win with a score of 2-1. Commentators, analysts and viewers were a little shocked.

Perhaps Xtreme Gaming relaxed too much after the first map. Perhaps CDEC Gaming finally decided to go all out and ruin all the opponent's plans. Or something happened that is not good to talk about in pro Dota. Let's leave that to the experts.

After that, the situation in the second division of China looked like this.

And here's the fun part. Now five teams at once have the same score in the group and, accordingly, all the chances to advance to the first division.

Only ShenZhen will stay here. But this does not mean that they will not want to leave their last rivals with them.

The last day promises to be the most interesting. If Ybb Gaming wins, then three teams will have a 4-3 score. In this case, the organizers will decide whether to take into account face-to-face meetings and map scores, or just will be Tiebrakes. Everything will be decided today.

And after we find out the results, we just have to wait for January 3rd. After all, it is on this date that the matches of the CN Division I will begin.