 It is time to announce the third ASUS Open Cup
of the season. 34-th tournament in the history, stable and always
expected, ASUS Summer Cup 2011 will take place at the same venues: Kiev
and Moscow. Once again the competion takes place under the «Republic of
Gamers» aegis.
For the fifth time in a row the finals of ASUS Summer Cup 2011 will take place in the best gaming center of Europe, the Kiev Cybersport Arena,
where every participant is sure to appreciate the top-performance
gaming stations with components from the key tournament partners: ASUS
and Intel. We have been waiting for this moment for a long time, and
finally it is happen: DOTA 5v5 discipline becomes very important for us,
going to the «Masters» degree.
There are many reasons for that,
but the most important is the interest of spectators and the size of
community. So, we will see the interesting and prestigious tournaments
of Counter-Strike 1.6 and DotA Masters on the main gaming playground of
Europe.
Traditional competitions for amateurs will take place in
Moscow — Counter-Strike NoN Profi. Also, we have planned the
preliminaries for Moscow in Counter-Strike 1.6 and DotA — the winners
will go to the «Masters» tournament in Kiev.
Last but no least, we are planning to carry out Online-qualifications
for ASUS Summer Cup 2011, which were very popular during the previous
tournaments. It is already known, that we will see the online-battles
between Counter-Strike 1.6 and DotA participants (Preliminaries for ASUS
Masters tournaments), as also the dueling battles in Quake Live and
StarCraft II.
Announcements Schedule: Qualifications for Counter-Strike Masters (15/07)
Qualifications for DOTA Masters (15/07)
ONLINE: Counter-Strike, DOTA, Quake LIVE!, Starcraft 2 (coming soon!)
Hotels, map
Online registration for the open disciplines (14/07)
Schedule for the tournament's finals (16/07)
Prize fund distribution details (16/07)
Tournament rules (17/07)
Draw ceremony: Counter-Strike | DOTA Masters (11/07)
Event dates: July 30, August 13-14 of 2011
Place: Kiev, Ukraine / Moscow, Russia
- Gaming center «Êiev Cybersport Arena» (Êiev, V. Getmana street 13)
- Gaming center «Click-Net» (Volokolamskaya underground station, Pyatnitskoye Shosse 9 – 1)
General sponsors: companies ASUS è Intel with the support by Western Digital.
Organizers of the event: e-sport-portal CyberFight.RU
Gaming disciplines of ASUS Summer Cup 2011:
Kiev (13-14 August 2011)
Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Masters (16 teams) with a prize fund of 250 000 rubles
DOTA 5v5 Masters (16 teams) with a prize fund of 250 000 rubles
Moscow (30 July 2011)
Ñounter-Strike 1.6 5v5 NoN Profi Open (64 teams) with a prize fund of 100 000 rubles
Ñounter-Strike 1.6 MOSCOW Qualifier (16 teams) with a prize fund of one free trip to Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Masters to Kiev
DOTA 5v5 MOSCOW Qualifier (16 teams) with a prize fund of one free trip to DotA 5v5 Masters to Kiev
Online (July-August)
Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Online (256 teams) with a prize fund of one free trip to Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Masters to Kiev
DOTA 5v5 Online (256 teams) with a prize fund of one free trip to DotA 5v5 Masters to Kiev
Quake LIVE! 1v1 Online (512 participants) with a prize fund of 12 500 rubles
Starcraft 2 1v1 Online (512 participants) with a prize fund of 12 500 rubles
The total prize money: 625 000 rubles* (~22,278$) + paid trips to Kiev**
* - the prize fund can be increased
** - the paid trip
includes free participation in the tournament finals of Masters Series,
and compensation for travel to the tournament and back from it (25,000
rubles in cash)
It is planning to hold the official
preliminaries for the «Counter-Strike 1.6» and «DotA» tournaments in
order to prepare to the finals.
IMPORTANT: The
summer tournament will be held with the major innovations in terms of
discipline, dress code and other factors. The announcement will be done
very soon. 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
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 Western Digital
Western
Digital Corporation is the largest computer hard disk drive
manufacturer in the world, ahead of Seagate and has a long history in
the electronics industry as an integrated circuit maker and a storage
products company. Western Digital was founded on April 23, 1970 by Alvin
B. Phillips, a Motorola employee, as General Digital, initially (and
briefly) a manufacturer of MOS test equipment. It rapidly became a
speciality semiconductor maker, with start-up capital provided by
several individual investors and industrial giant Emerson Electric
Company. Around July 1971 it adopted its current name and soon
introduced its first product, the WD1402A UART. Additional information
you will find there.
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. |
