ASUS ROG Winter 2015 – report

While Dota-roster in China, CS:GO division will participate in Finninsh LAN-tournament ASUS ROG Winter 2015. In the capital, Helsinki, will gather eight well-known European teams to play for the prize fund of $25.000.

Besides HellRaisers this tournament will visit such stars of the world’s CS:GO as NiP, Virtus.pro and Titan. Our team, as it is clear from recent interview of Flamie, sets a goal to come out of the group to fight in play-offs until the end. HellRaisers have Poles from Virtus.pro and Germans from PENTA as opponents, both these teams quite recently conceeded to our guys within SLTV StarSeries and certainly they are eager for revenge on lan.

In addition, almost first time on international offline-tournament we will see team from Hungary. Volgare have not left competition on their domestic scene, however they could not reveal themselves in Europe. Travel to Helsinki for them is a unique chance to strengthen their positions among leaders of CS:GO-scene, therefore we can expect sensations from these guys.

Regulations

In groups (there are two of them) teams will play by GSL-system, as a result will be defined two quarter-finalists from each group. Play-off will be organized on the second day and there we will see bo3 matches in Single Elimination brackets.

On January, 30 at 17:00 will start games in group A and at 21:00 – in group B. On January, 31 at 12:00 starts first quarter-final, then goes the second one, after it is ended, there will be played a match for third place and after that – Grand final.

Prize pool

1st place – $12,000 (  NiP)

2nd place – $7,000 (  Titan)

3rd place – $4,000 (  HellRaisers)

4th place – $2,000 (  PENTA)