It is time for us to announce the jubilee summer tournament of the ASUS Open Cup series which is going to be the 30th ASUS Open event. ASUS Summer Cup 2010 features a new format, a new location, and larger prize money. The competition takes place under the Republic of Gamers aegis once again.

The ASUS Summer Cup 2010 finals will take place in the best gaming center of Europe, the Kyiv Cybersports Arena, where every participant is sure to appreciate the top-performance gaming stations with components from the key tournament partners: ASUS and Intel.

Ukraine can be visited by any European Union citizen without a visa, so we expect many gamers and teams as well as mass media from Europe.

August 28-29, hundreds of best teams and gamers will contest in Kyiv for a prize fund of 1 million rubles and special hardware prizes from the sponsors.

Within the ASUS Summer 2010 framework we are also planning to carry out online qualifications that were popular during the previous tournaments. Online battles in Counter-Strike and DOTA are already on the list. Stay tuned for further announcements on our site! 

Announcements Schedule:
Qualifications for Counter-Strike Masters – July 26
Prize fund distribution details – July 28
Online registration for the open disciplines – July 27
Schedule for the tournament’s finals – August 1
Tournament rules – August 5
Draw ceremony for Counter-Strike Masters – August 22

Event dates: August 22, 28 and 29, 2010
Place: Moscow, Russia, and Kyiv, Ukraine

• Gaming center Kyiv Cybersports Arena (Kyiv, V.Getmana st. 13)
• Gaming center Click-Net (Volokolamskaya underground station, Pyatnitskoye Shosse 9 – 1) (map)

General sponsors: ASUS and Intel
Organizers: e-sport portal CyberFight.Ru 

Gaming Disciplines:

Kyiv (August 28-29)

• Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Masters (32 teams) with a prize fund of 600,000 rubles + hardware
• Counter-Strike: Source 5v5 Open (32 teams) with a prize fund of 100,000 rubles + hardware
• DOTA 5v5 Open (32 teams) with a prize fund of 100,000 rubles + hardware
• Quake LIVE! 1v1 Open (32 gamers) with a prize fund of 100,000 rubles + hardware

Moscow (August 21)

• Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 NoN Profi Open (64 teams) with a prize fund of 100,000 rubles
• ASUS MOSCOW Summer 2010 Qualifier (32 teams) with a prize fund of free trips to Kyiv 

The total prize money is 1 million rubles (1.000.000,00 rubles) plus hardware components from the sponsors (for about 200,000 rubles more). 

Official Counter-Strike 1.6 qualifications are going to be held as a preparation for ASUS Summer 2010. You can submit your qualification request to this email address. 

For regional organizers:

• Regional organizer requirements

About ASUS

ASUS, the world’s top 3 consumer notebook vendor and the maker of the world’s best selling and most award winning motherboards, is a leading enterprise in the new digital era. ASUS designs and manufactures products that perfectly meet the needs of today’s digital home, office and person, with a broad portfolio that includes motherboards, graphics cards, displays, desktop PCs, notebooks, netbooks, servers, multimedia, wireless solutions, networking devices and mobile phones. Driven by innovation and committed to quality, ASUS won 3,268 awards in 2009, and is widely credited with revolutionizing the PC industry with the Eee PC™. With a global staff of more than ten thousand people and a world-class R&D team of 3,000 engineers, the company’s revenue for 2009 was US.5 billion.

About Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom and blogs.intel.com.

About ASUS Open series

ASUS Open is a series of major cybersport tournaments that has come to gather together the best gamers from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus once every three months. ASUS Open is an officially recognized tournament and its results are closely watched by the international gaming community, with lots of online and printed press publications accompanying each ASUS Open event.

Starting from January 2003, there have been 29 ASUS Open events, each including competitions in multiple cybersport disciplines.