No RTS for ASUS Winter 2008

StarCraft 1v1 and WarCraft 3 1v1 will not be in the lineup of games at the ASUS Winter 2008 tournament. Of the six tournaments the WarCraft 3 DOTA 5v5 will be the only tournament featuring a Blizzard game.

Starting February 23rd to the 24th, over a thousand gamers in Russia will duel it out in six different tournaments fighting over a prize pool that equals to almost 35 000 USD. Sadly of the six games featured, StarCraft 1v1 and WarCraft 3 1v1 will not be apart of the games this time around.

The last ASUS tournament was held last year where the StarCraft finals came down to a showdown between Advokate (now in team RoX) and MYM.White-Ra. The WarCraft finals saw Gravitas.XyLigaN take home the grand prize. In the StarCraft tournament it was reported that over 90 players had attended the ASUS Autumn 2007 tournament, yet even with such a large turn-out for the RTS tournaments, why have they been snubbed this time around?

A look back at the previous tournaments held by ASUS shows that this is not the first time that StarCraft and WarCraft 3 1v1s have not been included and that traditionally the two RTS games have not been included in past Winter Cups. Surely the RTS tournaments will return with the next ASUS tournaments to come this year.

Previous ASUS tournaments War3 1v1 and StarCraft 1v1 have been included:

ASUS RTS Tournaments 2005 - 2008
ASUS Tournament	WarCraft III 1v1	StarCraft 1v1
Winter Cup 2008	No	No
Autumn Cup 2007	Yes	Yes
Summer Cup 2007	Yes	Yes
Spring Cup 2007	Yes	No
Winter Cup 2007	No	No
Autumn Cup 2006	Yes	Yes
Summer Cup 2006	Yes	Yes
Spring Cup 2006	Yes	Yes
Winter Cup 2006	No	No
Autumn Cup 2005	Yes	Yes (2v2)
Summer Cup 2005	No	Yes
Spring Cup 2005	Yes	Yes
Winter Cup 2005	Yes	No

Links
ASUS Winter Cup 2008 - Press Release
ASUP Cup History - Source
GosuGamers.net - ASUS Autumn Cup 2007