News Archive, Counter-Strike
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Rekrut.ru, a brand new Russian E-Sports community, has announced it will be holding a Counter-Strike tournament this December. The event, called the Rekrut.ru Championship 2008, is being held to celebrate the launch of Rekruit.ru and will be open to both professional and amateur teams. The professional tournament will feature sixteen teams, eight of which will be invited by the organization, while the remaining eight spots will be decided through a LAN qualifier. In all, the event will feature a total prize purse of $30,000, $24,000 for the professional tournament and $6,000 for the amateur one.
The event will be held December 14th at the 4Game Gaming Center in Moscow. The qualifier for the amateur event will take place on December 13th at the Click-Net Gaming Center, also in Moscow. For more information on this event, or the latest Russian E-Sports news, check out Rekrut.Ru (knowing Russian will be helpful)
The Electronic Sports League (ESL) has confirmed that, due to the lack of online Asia Qualifiers, South Korea will stage a national Counter-Strike qualifier, to be held at the GStar convention in Seoul from November 13th-16th. The event will be open to all South Korean teams, all of which will be competing for one of the three spots for the Continental Finals that are available, not to mention a total prize purse of $10,000 USD.
For more on this story, and all the latest news from ESL, head on over to their Official Website.
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