May will see the 29th edition of the
ASUS Open Cup by Cyberfight. But that's not all: At this time we have prepared a surprise for you. The three largest Russian esport organizations will come together for this especial event: the National Professional Cybersport League, the
Russian eSports Federation and
CyberFight.ru. With the help of
ASUS and
Intel, they will conduct a three-phase tournament:
- ASUS Online Qualifers
- ASUS LAN Open
- and 
ESWC Russia
During two weekends we will see 7 LANs and 4 online tournaments, hundreds players from all the post-Soviet states and the best organizers staff. 9 tickets to ESWC, 525 000 rubles (~13 560€) and prizes from sponsors are waiting to be won.
President NPCL
Sergei Shirokov managed to obtain a license to conduct national qualifier: "To ensure a high level of competition and fair selection of the best athletes in the national team, I proposed to connect to conduct of ESWC 2010 Russia two key organizers: Dmitry "d1monn" Kuznetsov and Russian eSports Federation, who agreed to contribute to common cause. I think that now all the circumstances contributed to the fact that we have organized the best Russian qualifier for ESWC for the duration of the World Cup. We will do this all efforts and use all experience gained over the years for major esport events!".
Dmitry "
d1monn" Kuznetsov and CyberFight wants to do something new with ASUS Cup project: "Speaking about ASUS Cup, we speaking about stable series of tourneys, which not be called the best, most incomparable tournament in the world, but you can easily identify as a strong esport Championship, wich taking place four times a year and allows show an honest, objective picture of esport in the CIS".
Dmitry "
Dilvish" Smith, director of Russian eSports Federation: "2010 - the year of the tenth anniversary of the Federation eSports Russia. More gratifying to us to participate in the organization of Russian selection for the World Cup in e-sports. Especially like to mention, that is first time for ten years of computer development of esport in Russia, several major organizations combine their efforts for the selection of and training of team athletes who will represent our country at one of the world's largest esport events. We hope that forthcoming serious selection for russian team would be objective"
General manager of the National Team will be Alex "
Lex" Kolesnikov, whose experience and authority will help our guys in the most effective preparation in so important competitions for our country.
The ASUS Online Qualifers will start on the 8th of May, one day before
Victory day. The ASUS LAN Open will take place during 22-23th of May in
Moscow at the 2 famous game-centers
Click-Net and
Rush3D. And finally on the 30th of May, the ESWC Russia qualifer matches will be played at the NPCL television studio with the best russian players from the ASUS Spring 2010.
Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Online (64 teams) - 2 paid tickets to LAN
Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Moscow Online (64 teams) - 2 paid tickets to LAN
Warcraft 3 DOTA 5v5 Online (64 teams) - 3 paid tickets to LAN
Warcraft 3 TFT 1v1 Online (128 players) - 3 paid tickets to LAN
QuakeLive 1v1 Online (128 players) - 3 paid tickets to LAN
Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Masters (16 teams) - 200 000 rubles + hardware + 2 ESWC Russia invitations
Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 NoN Profi Open (96 teams) - 100 000 rubles + hardware
Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Female Open (8 teams) - 25 000 rubles + hardware + 1 ESWC Finals invitation
Warcraft 3 DOTA 5v5 Open (32 teams) - 100 000 rubles + hardware + 1 ESWC Finals invitations
Warcraft 3 TFT 1v1 Open (64 players) - 25 000 rubles + hardware + 4 ESWC Russia invitations
FIFA 2010 1v1 Open [PS3] (64 players) - 25 000 rubles + hardware + 4 ESWC Russia invitations
QuakeLive 1v1 Open (64 players) - 25 000 rubles (~645€) + hardware + 4 ESWC Russia invitations
Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Masters (2 teams) - 1 ESWC Finals invitations
Warcraft 3 TFT 1v1 (4 players) - 2 ESWC Finals invitations
FIFA 2010 1v1 [PS3] (4 players) - 2 ESWC Finals invitations
QuakeLive 1v1 (4 players) - 2 ESWC Finals invitations
ASUS Online Qualifers
Registration deadline: 9th of May - registration
Dates: 10-16th of May
Format: Same as ASUS Autumn 2009, Groups + Full DE Brackets
Servers: Russian only
ASUS LAN Open
Registration deadline: 20th of May - registration
Dates: 22-23th of May
Format: Depends on the number of participants
General
Gametype: Duel
Mappool: qzdm6, qzdm13, qztourney7, qztourney9, ztntourney1
Stream: Direct link
Coverage: Cyberfight
Shedule:
- 13:00 CET – FIFA 10
- 14:20 CET – Quake Live
- 16:15 CET – Warcraft 3
- 18:30 CET – Counter-Strike 1.6
Source: Summary (RU), Tourney FAQ 
#asus.ql
LocKtar, adds a new Quake Live Team in January 2010. Now its time to make it official. We will represent them mainly in the ESL Major Series VI with our TDM Team, ESL Pro Series Germany and the weekly G Data and ZOTAC Cup series.
Spart1e already invited Sweden will have a maximum of four players fighting for the gold at Disneyland. The winner will get his flight, licence and hotel payed, where the runner up and second runner up has to finance travel and hotel by himself.
Licence, flight, hotel for the grand finals in Paris.
Licence for the grand finals in Paris.
Licence for the grand finals in Paris.
strenx, the cup format will once again consist of SE brackets using bo1 matches until the quarter finals. Then the games will be played as bo3 with the grand final being played bo5. The prize is 100€ for 1st place!burn3dd - 100€
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GUard
GameSports.de & 
ZOTAC bring you the weekly 
ZOTAC StarCraft II Beta Cup, starting on Sunday 07:15 CDT, 2 May 2010, checkins will as per usual open at 06:00 CDT. There's 100 € price money up for grabs and we'll be running with 1024 signups and 512.
RoX.KIS.DIMAGA 1:3 
mTw.NaNi Replays
prox_pl and many more.
Go4SC2 Series will take place today starting at 07:00 CDT and will feature 100€ for its winner. Rankings points will also be given to the top16 players in order to get qualified for the Go4SC2 Final May 2010 on the Thursday 27th (See the current rankings). The sign up for the cup will be open until 06:40 CDT and then the check-ins will begin.
eSports Yearbook
DaHanG received an invitation each to Kaspersky Quake Live Championship at DreamHack Summer 2010 19-22 June.
Austria will face 
Netherlands and the other game is 
Hungary against 
United Kingdom.
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FraGma (duel & TDM)
morrow
TheLittleOne [3:1] ZpuX 
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