 There is more to hot summer than vacations and holidays. This August
will bring us the traditional and scorching hot competition in the most
popular cybersports at ASUS Summer 2009! The most prestigious event in
the CIS countries, the favorite of ASUS
and our portal, goes into the new season with the 26th ASUS Open series
tournament that will get together the strongest teams and players of
East Europe.
Having taken a good deal of their well-deserved
summer rest, the players and teams are now ready to fight in a variety
of disciplines including Counter-Strike Masters where the participants
must first pass a tough qualification. There will be open disciplines,
too. The visitors will see tournaments of amateur CS teams as well as
FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer competitions. There will also be a lot of
dueling in Starcraft: Brood War, Warcraft 3: TFT and Quake 3. A women’s
Counter-Strike competition will be held for a fourth time.
So,
hundreds of best teams and players from the CIS countries will meet in
Moscow in August 22-23 and 29 to challenge each other for the prize
fund totaling 800,000 rubles.
Stay tuned for an upcoming announcement of online ASUS Summer 2009 competitions that
received highly positive reports from the participants during the
Winter and Spring series. Drop in on our site regularly so that you
didn’t miss anything!
You can learn the details of the upcoming event below.
Announcements Schedule:
Qualifications for Counter-Strike Masters – August 1
Prize fund distribution details – August 3
Online registration for the open disciplines – July 29
Schedule for the tournament’s finals – August 7
Tournament rules – August 5
Information for visitors – August 16
80 T-shirts for free! – August 10
Draw ceremony for Counter-Strike Masters – August 19
Event dates: August 22, 23, 29
Place: Russia, Moscow
- Gaming center «Flashback» (Kakhovskaya underground station, Kerchenskaya 1B) (map)
- Gaming center «Click-Net» (Tushino underground station, Pyatnitskoye Shosse 9 – 1) (map)
General sponsors: ASUS and Intel
Organizers: e-sport portal CyberFight.RU
Gaming Disciplines:
- Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Masters (32 teams) with a prize fund of 350,000 rubles
- Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 NoN Profi Open (128 teams) with a prize fund of 150,000 rubles
- Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Female Open (8 teams) with a prize fund of 25,000 rubles
- Pro Evolution Soccer 1v1 Open (128 gamers) with a prize fund of 50,000 rubles
- FIFA 2009 1v1 Open (128 gamers) with a prize fund of 50,000 rubles
- Warcraft 3 / StarCraft: Bw / Quake 3 1v1 Opens (32 gamers x 3) with a prize fund of 150,000 rubles
And also:
- ASUS MOSCOW Summer CS 1.6 Qualifier (64 teams) with a prize fund of 25,000 rubles and 4 quotas for the Masters competition
The total prize money is 800 000 rubles
Official
Counter-Strike 1.6 qualifications are going to be held as a preparation
for ASUS Summer 2009. Detailed information about the qualification
centers where your team can qualify will be published on our site soon.
You can send your qualification request to this email address.
FOR REGIONAL ORGANIZERS
About ASUS
 ASUS
is a leading company in the new digital era. With a global staff of
more than ten thousand and a world-class R&D design team, the
company’s revenue for 2008 was 8.1 billion U.S. dollars. ASUS ranks
among BusinessWeek’s “InfoTech 100” and is No.1 in quality among all
Taiwanese manufacturers according to Wall Street Journal surveys.
About Intel
 Intel,
the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products
and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live.
Additional information about Intel is available at http://www.intel.com/pressroom and the Russian language site http://www.intel.ru. You can learn more about Intel’s cybersport initiatives at http://www.intel.ru/gaming.
About ASUS Open
ASUS
Open is a major cybersports tournament series that is traditionally
held each three months and gathers together the best gamers of Russia,
Ukraine and Belarus. ASUS Open is recognized all around the world as an
official even, the world’s gaming community taking a huge interest in
its results as is proved by numerous publications in online and offline
mass media.
The ASUS Open series enjoys an excellent
reputation and deserved popularity of gamers who are always eager to
take part in the events organized by ASUS and its partner, the largest
Russian eSport portal Cyberfight.Ru | Cyberfight.Org.
Established
in January 2003, the ASUS Open series has already run through 25
events, each dedicated to specific e-sport disciplines and held at a
specific season of the year. The tournaments have got positive reports
from gamers, journalists and specialists.
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