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ASUS season 2012: Spring, Summer and Autumn cups to be held online

Posted by Ulrich "KongoTime" Hanten 3 months ago

One of the most essential pillars and backbone in the competitive DotA landscape, ASUS, is going through rough times. In a personal blog on cyberfight.ru, ASUS head administrator Dmitry "d1monn" Kuznetsov announced, that due to a tight budget, the first three tournaments of the season will not take place via LAN.

One could mostly read disappointment between the blog's lines, as ASUS finds itself forced to break with the long lasting tradition of throwing one LAN party per quarter. In 2012, the tournament series will not be a regular meeting point for the Eastern European professional scene, as only the "final battle of the year", ASUS Winter Cup, will take place in a cybercafe during December.

More specific reasons, other than a difficult financial situation are not mentioned. Until now it seems further unclear, wether DotA or Dota 2 will become our discipline to follow, besides the tournaments in Starcraft II, Counter-Strike 1.6 and League of Legends.

A rough schedule for all events of 2012 has been put up, making out March-April, June-July and September-October as possible dates for the Spring, Summer and Autumn Cups. At issue is currently, wether teams and players should be able to win tickets and wild cards for the final battle through good placings in the three online tournaments.

Links

cyberfight.ru - Original blog

prodota.ru - related press release

comments

ngazi (GosuBet Manager DotA) 3 months ago

ASUS pulling back?

SeniorKittyKat 3 months ago

I'm sure it'll heal over time (aka return to offline)

sir.alpha 3 months ago

online sux

UrE 3 months ago

No lan-mode for Dota 2 anyway. So it doesn't really make a huge difference (atleast for european teams)...

Kongotime (Senior Editor DotA) 3 months ago

not technically perhaps, but meeting players and admins is something you dont want to miss. A bit old but this clip shows something that online tournaments cant do http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT8jfsfu4zQ

brasi 3 months ago

Are they relly thinking about hosting it for DotA ?
And what is with the strong russian community and their most prestigous stable LAN ever ?

jetzero 3 months ago

Hoping for DotA hosting

Troll_Jegeren 3 months ago

Y pgg no win online

M.H.N 3 months ago

nice tu

#10

abad_21guns 3 months ago

WTF 2012 no LAN in Europe, after TI2 in US

#11

Booncz 3 months ago

It's over guys, RIP competitive dota...So i guess we'll have to wait like a half a year for some LAN event

#4 You joking right:D

#12

_M0T_ 3 months ago

That is so sad :/ We'll have to wait a lot for a true competition on LAN...

#13

Hawk.Divine.Dream 3 months ago

LAN tournament was better.

#14

klarkson (Junior Strategist DotA) 3 months ago

No LAN, no party.

#15

prodg 3 months ago

Is this only for DotA/DotA2? Cause I can't seem to find any news related on HLTV.org (CS 1.6 portal)

#16

ngazi (GosuBet Manager DotA) 3 months ago

I don't normally see HLTV posting about future tournaments?

#17

prodg 3 months ago

They would definitely post something about the cancellation of ASUS (cancellation for LAN in CS = total cancellation, because most teams don't give a crap about online events, unless they're some qualifiers for major LAN events).

Besides, I couldn't find it anywhere, not even on other sites (fragbite.se for example) <- even if I don't know any Swedish, I could make sense of the headlines.

Was just wondering anyway, thanks for the help!

P.S / EDIT: I'm not questioning your sources I'm just wondering if its only a DotA thing or are other games getting the same treatment.

#18

ngazi (GosuBet Manager DotA) 3 months ago

Well it's quite possible it's only Dota because they'll have to compete with Dota 2. Also they've probably consulted their regular teams.

#19

yatzy 3 months ago

And geeks does what they do best, stay indoor

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Didn't know ASUS had financial troubles.

Damm, tuff luck.

#20

Dota_dreamzzzz 3 months ago

honestly .. still DotA for 2012... dota2 is just half of what has DotA have.. and still hoping for dota2 to change the buying system and be like Dota ><.. hehe :)