Along with the prize purse, a total of 8 competitions have been announced for this winter’s ASUS Winter 2010. Held at the Click-Net gaming center in Moscow, Russia, the event will take place from the 20th to the 23rd of February.
The following games will be represented at the event:
Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Masters (32 teams) - prize fund $10,000.
Сounter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Non-Profi Open (128 teams) – $3,000.
Сounter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Female Open (8 teams) – $1,000.
Counter-Strike: Source 5v5 Open (32 teams) – $3,000.
DOTA 5v5 Open (32 teams) – $3,000.
Pro Evolution Soccer 1v1 Open (128 players) – $2,000.
FIFA 2010 1v1 Open (128 players) – $2,000.
Quake LIVE! 1v1 Open (64 players) – $2,000.
The online "qualifiers" will give out hardware prizes to the winners along with paid travel to the main event:
Warcraft 3 DOTA 5v5 Online (64 teams) - invite to the DOTA 5v5 Masters + hardware prizes
Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Online (64 teams) - invite to the Counter-Strike 1.6 5v5 Masters + hardware prizes
This sums up to a total of $26.000 to be won by the participating teams. A total of four teams have already been invited to the event. The other teams will be facing each other in the preliminaries first.
Invited teams Arbalet.UA DTS forZe UNiTED Russia
Busy days for these four teams! More information on the event along with coverage will be posted here soon. Good luck to all participants!
German team ESC have dropped Christian "todi" Hackmann & Lukas "Recki" Reckmann from their line up
German team ESC Gaming has recently released Christian "todi" Hackmann and Lukas "Recki" Reckmann after placing 8th in the recent EPS season (ESL Pro series) causing them to fall short of 7 points needed to enter the LAN play-offs ending the season for ESC with disappointment; It is speculated that despite an offer from German team Alternate todi may soon retire from Counter-Strike, his ex-teammate Recki is currently in talks with Spanish team x6tence.
ESC Gaming, quick to fill the holes in their line up have picked up Linus "beist" Gubenis, a former player of the German team TBH-eSports, and the ex-pod.hama member Johan "rappy" von der Aue, who is now making a come back after taking the last EPS season off.
ESC Gaming's roster now consists of:
Christoph "loomit" Normann Dominik "d0m AZ" Wrabetz Wolfgang "tankJr" Maurer Linus "beist" Gubenis Johan "rappy" von der Aue
Before Arbalet Cub February, a Press tournament named Arbalet Cup – PRESS ON FIRE! will take place and six team from various news sites have been invited.
The tournament will be starting with a group stage in a BO1(Battle-Of-1) mode. Four teams will advance to the playoffs, and it will be in a double-elimination bracket. All matches of Press tournament will be played at RUSH3D LAN center on 13th February in Moscow and the following day will take place the Arbalet Cup February.
The total amount of prize will be $32.000 and it will be divided as follows:
After last weekend’s event in Asia, in just 11 days from now the next Arbalut Cup February has been announced. The event will take place in Moscow, Russia, starting and ending February 14th. A total of $10.000 is to be won by 12 participating teams, with four teams announced so far:
Participating teams
NA´VI (Arbalet Cup January/Asia champions)
forZe
DTS.chatrix
Begrip
Semi-Pro TBA
Online Qualifier TBA
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Online Qualifier TBA
Online Qualifier TBA
Online Qualifier TBA
Online Qualifier TBA
Online Qualifier TBA
Prize money
$ 5.000
$ 3.000
$ 2.000
The other 8 spots will be filled up after the online qualifiers have been played.
More information on the event will be posted here soon, including a full up-to-date coverage the 14th!
Couple of weeks ago the France organisation Millenium announced that they split with their CS 1.6 team. Today it is now clear that the new five is ready. Firstly we should remark the returning of the Steeve "Ozstrik3r" Flavigni in the team, who couple of months ago was forced to leave. The second new player is the ex-member of atLanteam and Ubiteam, Steve "Jarod" Cohen. The third player is the ex-star of dimension4, Christopher "YiiKoN" Cavecchi. The fourth player is coming from Esport-Eu, Michel "mshmz" Nguyen. And the last but not least probably one of the best France players, Marc "bisou" Naoum.
The new team of Millenium:
Marc "bisou" Naoum Christopher "YiiKoN" Cavecchi Steeve "Ozstriker" Flavigni Michel "mshz" Nguyen Steve "Jarod" Cohen
Moscow, Russia, the event will take place from the 20th to the 23rd of February. 
Arbalet.UA
Christian "todi" Hackmann and 
HLTV.org
Online Qualifier TBA
Marc "bisou" Naoum
