This edition's ASUS Open Cup goes in the sign of team spirit. Instead of the regular individual tournament, teams with 4-6 players will go at it in a ProLeague-styled team tournament. 75,000 rubels (~2169€) is at stake. In 4 days, the ASUS Summer Open 2008 will kick off.Any tournament organization of course wants to attract as many international players as possible, this summer's tournament will be lacking players outside of Russia. The list of signed up participants counts to 10, but one of the teams in the list are forced to drop out. And it's not just any team; it's MeetYourMakers.
Signed up with Strelok, White-Ra, Dreiven and Yayba the team was considered top favorites for the top spot, but Strelok tells GosuGamers that they will not take part. Strelok and White-Ra were all set to go, but Dreiven and Yayba were not able to make it.
It is evidently too costly for foreign teams to send a 4-man-lineup to a tournament in Moscow with such a low prize pool.
Instead, the tournament seems to be a Russian throwdown, with the exception of the Ukrainian DIMAGA, listed as a player in one of the two teams sent in by RoX. With MeetYourMakers sitting out, one of the RoX teams, the one with Advokate, Androide, BRAT_OK and DIMAGA should be considered the favorite to win.
Four individual matches and one team match will be played. Maps to be played are Python, Luna, Gaia, Peaks of Baekdu and Lost Temple (2on2).
ASUS Summer Open 2008 list of participantsMineral is Good MiG.Scout MiG.Finger MiG.Sup MiG.Yeti MiG.Largo 7x [7x]Narayan [7x]Plumbum [7x]Sky [7x]Fenr [7x]Kardinal [7x]Strateg Guild of imbalance imba.Adolf[RA] imba.Kaban1 imba.check imba.ops imba.CobraStyle imba.Djem5.Nt Unnamed (former 3DClan) Notforu PallMall Sudden Tech u3 RoX Advokate Androide BRAT_OK DIMAGA RoX 2 Localhost Damage Pomi Alf team raGe sOte[raGe] St.Cat[raGe] Iverson[raGe] bitchaRd[raGe] Fairy[raGe] Lyra Gaming gOgna ZergGboy Jimbo Kooze Super Russia [SR]RedTosS [SR]Chudastik [SR]jedi_one [SR]Dypemap [SR]Fu-af [SR]Boom |
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