MidOne | |
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Background Information | |
Name: | Yeik Nai Zheng |
Birthdate: | 1996-6-3 |
Country: | Malaysia |
Team: | Team SMG |
Role: | Carry |
Alternate IDs: | Miduan, midone |
Signature Heroes: | |
Links | |
datdota: | 116585378 |
DOTABUFF: | 116585378 |
OpenDota: | 116585378 |
Facebook: | miduandota2 |
Twitter: | midonedota2 |
YouTube: | channel/UCP7TywHXqD8FD7BJPOTekOw |
Twitch: | midone |
History | |
Dota 2:
2015-12-07 — 2016-08-24 2016-08-27 — 2019-11-04 2019-11-04 — 2019-12-30 Team Secret (Inactive) 2020-01-29 — 2021-03-22 2021-04-12 — Present Team SMG |
Yeik "MidOne" Nai Zheng is a Malaysian professional Dota 2 player who is currently playing for Team SMG.
Biography[]
MidOne had a profound interest in video games when he was a child. His first video game he played was Tetris on a Gameboy when he was 3–4 years old and later moved to console gaming playing the Final Fantasy series on the PlayStation 1. At the age of 7 he played his first computer games: Sonic and Rayman before playing venturing into DotA when he saw his brother playing it.[1] His interest with DotA grew and later transitioned into Dota 2 playing in semi-professional teams to professional teams. While becoming the first player from South-East Asia to reach 8000MMR, he is an up-and-coming Dota 2 talent in Malaysia and South-East Asia. MidOne studies mechanical engineering at Multimedia University (Melaka) Malaysia.[2]
Dota 2[]
Learning DotA from his brother, he kept on playing against him and his cousins in 1v1 matches. Despite losing, he had a competitive mindset and wanted improve and beat professional players such as kYxY. When he was 13 years old he joined a SMM tournament qualifier and came second place and a few years later he joined small tournaments around Malaysia to further obtain knowledge and experience as a Dota 2 player, while at the same time playing on solo matchmaking to improve his MMR.[1] While playing Dota as an amateur competitively, his parents would tell him to stop playing; ironically his friends would tell MidOne to stop studying and take a break, such as Dota.[3] When MidOne later became a professional player his friends and parents showed bipartisan support for him as a professional gamer.
However, tournament losses made MidOne re-evaluate his Dota career and was on the brink of quitting but a tournament emerged and decided to group up with his friends and players forming Team DOT. After a successful qualification in his region, Penang, his team qualified for the main event beating Team GIZMO 3-0 in the grand finals of the 2015 Mountain Dew Dota 2 Challenge earning a prize of RM60,000.[4] After winning the tournament, he later received an offer from Fnatic's manager, Eric and after a number of negotiations he decided to seize the opportunity and join Fnatic.[3] On April 29th 2016, he became the first player to hit 8000 MMR on the Southeast Asia servers.[5] After finishing 3rd place in StarLadder StarSeries Season 2 and 4th place at The International 2016, his nine-month stint at Fnatic came to an end when he joined Team Secret on August 27th, 2016.[6]
After 3 years and 4 months of stint with Team Secret, his time with the team came to an end on December 30th, 2019. He won 3 DPC Majors - DreamLeague Season 8, Chongqing Major 2019 and MDL Disneyland Paris Major as well as various other minors.
Trivia[]
- Had the highest average kills per game (11.29) at Kiev Major 2017.
- On April 29th, 2016, he became the first player to hit 8000 MMR on the Southeast Asia servers.
- On February 10th, 2017, he became the first Malaysian/Southeast Asia player to hit 9000 MMR on the Europe servers.
- On July 9th, 2017, MidOne became the second player to reach 10,000 MMR on the Southeast Asia servers.
Achievements[]
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Interviews[]
2018[]
- 2018-05-14 | MidOne on Team Secret: "I have the feeling that no one has an ego right now. We’re moving on as a team instead of as individuals." by Jesper "Julmust" Bergeskans of cybersport.com at EPICENTER XL
2017[]
- 2017-10-29 | Interview with Secret.MidOne at ESL One Hamburg by 2009 and ShiaoPi of liquiddota.com at ESL One Hamburg 2017
- 2017-08-16 | Team Secret™ - MidOne Talks About Everything! of Team Secret
- 2017-08-07 | TI7 Team Secret Interview by Kaci_Aitchison of Valve at The International 2017
- 2017-02-23 | MidOne on reaching the top of the leaderboards by Ollie Ring of redbull.com
2016[]
- 2016-12-05 | ROG MASTERS of ASUS ROG (Republic of Gamers) at ROG MASTERS 2016
- 2016-08-13 | TI6 At the Event - Kaci Interviews MidOne by Kaci Aitchison of Valve at The International 2016
- 2016-08-08 | MIDONE - COMFORTABLE AS AN UNDERDOG by OmniEulogy of Liquiddota at The International 2016
- 2016-07-24 | SLi群星联赛S2 采访MidOne:目标夺冠 想成为最屌的中单 by TsppenG at StarLadder i-League StarSeries S2
- 2016-07-21 | Fnatic vs Na`Vi: предматчевое интервью с Miduan by StarLadder at StarLadder i-League StarSeries S2 (trans. )
- 2016-07-13 | Fnatic.MidOne Interview by BeyondTheSummit at The Summit 5
- 2016-07-18 | Exclusive Interview: Fnatic.MidOne – From Zero To Hero by Terry Bass of lowyat.net
- 2016-06-18 | Fnatic MidOne interview at ESL One Frankfurt 2016: "The plan is to win TI" by GosuGamersDota at ESL One Frankfurt 2016
- 2016-02-13 | Fnatic.MidOne interview: "I want to play better than s4" by Ben "PineappleCake" Tan of GosuGamers
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Spotlight with MidOne". Dafaesports. 2016-08-05. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ↑ "Final exam in a few hours. Modern physics and Thermodynamics paper ✔️". MidOne. 2016-03-07. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ben "PineappleCake" Tan (2016-02-13). "Fnatic.MidOne interview: "I want to play better than s4"". GosuGamers. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ↑ Terry Bass (2015-12-07). "Mountain Dew Dota 2 Challenge Champions Only Formed Two Days Before The Event". lowyat.net. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ↑ Ollie Ring (2016-06-01). "Which Malaysian pro stars have the highest MMR?". RedBull eSports. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ↑ "THE NEXT CHAPTER". Team Secret. 2016-08-27. Retrieved August 29, 2016.