European DotA is set to see glorious moments again. Another $2000 were put up, to attract all powerhouses of the continent; American teams did unfortunately not get considered. Instead, several uprising Russian teams have the chance to try their luck in a high qualitiy field of competitors. Check out who the opponents of your favourite are.
| Intel Challenge: Supercup - Groupstage I | |||
| Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D |
 GGnet |  sTurtle |  M5 |  MYM |
 Virus |  GC | ToM | TheRetry |
 25cm |  SKZI | diXi | 2l8 |
 SomeHow | Sharks | OKHO | OSI |
| Group E | Group F | Group G | Group H |
| shift | FEARZ | Na`Vi |  SGC |
| NE | Druidz |  unique | BP |
| Team A |  GoD |  NR | iN |
 PR | Fota |  Rush | SlavikPro |
The eight teams, who reached the playoffs in the previous Supercup obtained the top positions in each group and won't face each other early on. Intel Challenge #7 runner up GGnet will open the series against Virus, who reached the second round of FARM4FAME yesterday. Title holder MYM finds themselves on tough ground against three Russian teams.
In comparison to all other tournaments, a strict time schedule was created, forcing particpants to play at destined times every week. Interesting to see will be, how teams are going to adapt to this measure, which doubtlessly makes the event easier to follow for visitors. Round 1 of the first groupstage will be played from the 4th to the 7th of May. ICS head adminstrator Vitaliy "v1lat" Volochay is set to provide regular broadcasts on the cyberarena own3d channels.
The first patch of games will go down tomorrow at 17:00 and 19:00 CET, played by the teams of Group A and B.
Correction: Points are given out in the usual format 3-1-0.
Links
cyberarena.tv - ICS Schedule for round 1
cyberarena.tv - Source
GosuGamers - ICS event page: Reach Gosubets for the first groupstage at the event navigation box to the right
