International ASUS Winter 2006 tournament will open the new season of ASUS Open Series. This is the main winter tournament in CIS, 12th competition. ASUS Open Series goes on, in 2006 we’ll see 4 tournaments at the least and they’re going to be something you’ve never seen before. ASUS Open has become the Unofficial CIS eSport Competition.
This time gamers and audience may expect big prize fund, three nominations and the whole new tournament conception. The main idea of this tournament is to create good image of the competition to attract players from abroad. Best European players, best female Q4-team and all eSport stars from CIS plan to participate in the tournament. Well, let’s get down to business!
 

Date: February 23-25, 2006
Location: Moscow, Russia, Flashback clubs
General sponsor: ASUS Russia with support of ATI, VIA, Intel, Microsoft, Razer, Zboard
Initiator: Russian e-sport portal CyberFight.RU | CyberFight.ORG

Cathegories:
ASUS Winter 2006 Counter-Strike 5v5 Masters – up to 40 teams – prize fund 330 000 rubles / 12'000 US$
ASUS Winter 2006 Quake 4 Male 1v1 Open – up to 128 players - prize fund 165 000 rubles / 6'000 US$
ASUS VIA CHROME Cup Quake 4 Female 1v1 Open - 32 players - prize fund 165 000 rubles / 6'000 US$
Total prize fund: 660 000 rubles / 24'000 US$

As you can see, our new partner, VIA company, will sponsor a female only Quake 4 tournament within the ASUS Open Cup tournament. The official name of the girls tournament will be: The ASUS VIA CHROME Cup. VIA will provide 6000.00 US$ in prize money (3000 for 1st, 2000 for 2nd, and 1000 for 3rd place).  VIA will also fly in 4 professional female gamers (girlz 0f destruction* team members) to participate in the tournament.

“VIA is proud to further support female gaming internationally with events such as the ASUS VIA CHROME Cup” said Timothy J. Brown, VIA Technologies Inc, International Marketing Manager. “High profile tournaments with world’s best female PC pro gamers girlz 0f destruction pave the way for a new generation of gamers.”

* girlz 0f destruction is a 7-member, international all-girls PC gaming team hailing from seven different countries and will be sending three representatives to participate in this Quake 4 tournament. Representing  Sweden,  Canada and  USA  , the girlz 0f destruction members will be participating as individuals in a deathmatch-style Quake 4 tournament. All team members attending the event are professional gamers and have played over 10,000 matches between them and each trains on average for five hours a day.

Announcements on details of ASUS Winter 2006:

Open tournaments registration: since 26th of January
Detailed prize fund distribution: 28th of January
Tournament rules: 3rd of February
Tournament schedule: 10th of February
Information for spectators: 12th of February
Counter-Strike Masters sortition: 18th of February
List of invited teams: 27th of January
List of qualifications Counter-Strike Masters: 27th of January

As a part of preparations of ASUS Winter 2006 official qualifying tournaments are planned. Detailed information on qualifying centers – coming soon at our site!
We would like to negotiate any organizations and clubs able to hold the qualifying tournaments of ASUS WINTER CUP 2006. Contact person: Dmitry "d1monn" Kuznetsov.

About ASUS

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (TSE:2357), is a leading provider of 3C total solutions. Its product portfolio includes notebooks, motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, information appliances, desktop PCs, servers, wireless solutions, mobile phones and networking devices. With world-class engineering and offices and subsidiaries located in all corners of the world, ASUSTeK provides innovative solutions to consumers, businesses and OEM/ODM customers. The company is the perennial leader of the motherboard and graphics card industries and a top 10 player globally for notebooks, optical drives, broadband modems and a wide range of other products.

About VIA

VIA Technologies, Inc. (TSE 2388) is the foremost fabless supplier of market-leading core logic chipsets, low power x86 processors, advanced connectivity, multimedia, networking and storage silicon, and complete platform solutions that are driving system innovation in the PC and embedded markets. Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, VIA’s global network links the high tech centers of the US, Europe and Asia, and its customer base includes the world’s top OEMs, motherboard vendors and system integrators.

 

About ATI

Founded in 1985, ATI Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the supply of graphics, video and multimedia products for desktop, workstation and notebook PCs, digital televisions, cell phones and game consoles.  The company has more than 2,500 employees across its headquarters in Markham, Ontario, and offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia. ATI has research and development facilities in California, Florida, Massachusetts, Ontario and Pennsylvania and manufactures its products in Canada and Taiwan. In its fiscal year 2004, ATI recorded revenues of US .0 billion.
About Intel

About Intel

Intel is the world's largest chip maker and a leading manufacturer of computer, networking, and communications products.

 

 

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq MSFT) is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. Microsoft develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices..

About ASUS Open

ASUS Open is a series of big  cybersport tournaments, it has become traditional and gathers up the best players from Russia,Ukraine and Belarus every three months. ASUS Open is considered as an official tournament worldwide and its results are of great interest  for world gaming-community. Latter is shown by numerous publications in on-line and print press.

In Russia ASUS Open series has good reputation and is in confidence of gamers, they are pleased to take part in actions initiated by ASUS Company and its partner – the biggest Russian eSport-portal Cyberfight.Ru | Cyberfight.Org (total number of readers is over 220 000).

Since January of 2003 eleven ASUS Open stages have been successfully held, each of them has been held in certain eSport-categories and was connected to the season – Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn. The tournaments had good opinions among players, media and experts.