MidOne — dota2

MidOne
	Background Information
Name:	Yeik Nai Zheng
Birthdate:	1996-6-3 (age 30)
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 Fnatic 2016-08-27 — 2019-11-04 Team Secret 2019-11-04 — 2019-12-30 Team Secret (Inactive) 2020-01-29 — 2021-03-22 OG 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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**With Team Secret**
2016
Date	Place	Event	Opponent		Winnings
2016-11-13	A11st	ROG MASTERS	3 : 0	Execration	$71,250
2016-10-19	A11st	FACEIT Invitational	2 - 0	Vega Squadron	$10,000
2016-10-01	A44th	MarsTV Dota 2 League Autumn 2016	0 : 2	OG	$18,750

**With Fnatic**
2016
Date	Place	Event	Opponent		Winnings
2016-08-12	A44th	The International 2016	0 : 2	Digital Chaos	$1,453,932
2016-07-24	A33rd	StarLadder i-League StarSeries Season 2	0 : 2	Natus Vincere	$37,500
2016-07-16	A55th - 6th	The Summit 5	1 : 2	Natus Vincere	$3,537
2016-07-08	A11st	SEA Kappa Invitational Season 2	3 : 1	Orange.Taring	$7,500
2016-06-18	A77th - 8th	ESL One Frankfurt 2016	0 : 2	Team Liquid	$6,291
2016-06-10	A55th - 6th	Manila Major 2016	0 : 2	Team Liquid	$202,500
2016-04-24	A33rd - 4th	ESL One Manila 2016	1 : 2	Wings Gaming	$25,000
2016-04-13	A11st	SEA Kappa Invitational Season 1	3 : 1	Signature.Trust	$7,500
2016-04-11	A11st	BTS Southeast Asia #4	3 : 0	TNC Tigers	$5,000
2016-03-05	A55th - 6th	Shanghai Major 2016	0 : 2	MVP Phoenix	$202,000
2016-01-14	A77th - 12th	SLTV Star Series Season 13 & i-League	2/0/3	Group stage	$5,047