LGD has officially announced the departure of LongDD from the team. Replacing him in the team will be one of LGD's old faces, dd.

LGD released an official announcement of the abrupt departure of Xiang 'LongDD' Huang over their YY livestream just moments ago, stating that the reason for LongDD's departure is due to Xie 'dd' Bin's desire to return to the team.

The announcement came two days after rumors of an argument in the LGD gaming house which led to LongDD storming away. However, the rumors of conflict have been debunked since.

"It's not conflict. We didn't have a fight or anything", said LongDD.

Despite rumors stating that dd is somewhat near deaf, LGD announced that dd is in fact healthy and will be ready to compete with the team.

Translation of LGD official statement: Regarding the recent concern over roster changes, we will officially announce that Xiang 'LongDD' Huang has left the club. When we talked to him regarding the matter, he told us that he will take a short break from professional gaming while expressing interest in live streaming and start productions of video contents. Regardless where or what path LongDD chooses we, LGD, will support him, wish him best of luck in any aspect and create his own legend. Besides that, there's a very important announcement. Xie 'dd' bin will officially return to the team. dd had to take a break earlier due to physical health issues and had to undergo a surgery for a period of time. During this period of time, he has been keeping himself updated about Dota 2 as well as participated in some live streaming. Now that DD has recovered, he will return to the team and continue training. I hope all of our supporters will support and encourage him. As for The International 3, LGD will respect all the decisions and arrangement made by Valve. All of our players will be focused and train very hard to prepare for the upcoming tournaments.

In a short interview posted on SGamer forums, LongDD stated, "LGD doesn't think my micro is good enough. They want to replace me. They think that I'm not much different from DD. That it's better to find someone else".

"I don't understand their decision. Otherwise I wouldn't be so melancholy".

According to our sources, there is a high chance LGD.cn may lose their direct invite to The International 3. LGD has stated that they will accept any decision made by Valve.

LGD.cn team roster:

Ning 'Xiao8' Zhang

Jia Jun 'Sylar' Liu

Fat-meng 'ddc' Leong

Zheng Zheng 'Yao' Yao

Xie 'dd' Bin

Source: LongDD interview