ASUS ROG Winter groups announced

14-1-2015 21:22

Groups have been drawn for ASUS ROG Winter 2015, which will take place on January 30-31 in Helsinki, Finland with $25,000 up for grabs.

Six teams in the form of NiP, HellRaisers, Titan, Virtus.pro, mousesports and 3DMAX were invited directly for the event, while PENTA and volgare had to qualify online.

The eight teams were seeded by HLTV.org and split into two groups accordingly, thus giving us the following groups for ASUS ROG Winter 2015:

Group A	Group B
Virtus.pro	NiP
Null element HellRaisers	Titan
PENTA	3DMAX
volgare	mousesports

Schedule for the eight team tournament had already been announced a while back, with groups taking place on Friday, and the playoffs on Saturday of ASUS ROG:

Friday, January 30
16:00	Virtus.pro	vs. volgare	BO1	A1
16:00	Null element HellRaisers	vs. PENTA	BO1	A2
17:00	Winner of A1	vs. Winner of A2	BO1	A3
17:00	Loser of A1	vs. Loser of A2	BO1	A4
18:00	Loser of A3	vs. Winner of A4	BO1	A5
20:00	NiP	vs. mousesports	BO1	B1
20:00	Titan	vs. 3DMAX	BO1	B2
21:00	Winner of B1	vs. Winner of B2	BO1	B3
21:00	Loser of B1	vs. Loser of B2	BO1	B4
22:00	Loser of B3	vs. Winner of B4	BO1	B5

Saturday, January 31
11:00	Semi-final #1		BO3
14:00	Semi-final #2		BO3
18:00	Third place decider		BO3
21:45	Grand final		BO3

The grand final will be broadcasted live on national Finnish TV on the channel YLE, as well as streamed on their website at YLE Areena.

In addition, RoomOnFire will be casting the tournament online on their official Twitch channel, with the following crew attending ASUS ROG Winter 2015:

Anders "Anders" Blume - Caster
Auguste "Semmler" Massonnat - Caster
Robin "Fifflaren" Johansson - Analyst
Marcus "zet" Sundström - Analyst
Richard "Gonzo" Lewis - Host

These eight teams will be competing for a total of $25,000 in prizes, which will be split among the top four finishers at the event, as follows:

1. $12,000
2. $7,000
3. $4,000
4. $2,000

HLTV.org will be traveling on-site to Helsinki, Finland to provide you with full coverage of ASUS ROG Winter 2015, the second international CS:GO tournament of the year.

2015-01-14 21:22

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2015-01-14 21:26

Niiiice

penta can surprise

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after HR worldclass changes, ez for penta

2015-01-15 00:14

they will

2015-01-15 00:39

5th

2015-01-14 21:23

bad groups

gl hr

vp ez

2015-01-14 21:24

Both qualified teams in same group? that's weird.

rip 3DMAX

not sure why the 2 online qualified teams are in one group

2015-01-14 21:25

lan?

2015-01-14 21:27

gl everyone

expected.

Richard "Gonzo" Lewis - Host Wtf?

He used to go under the name Dr. Gonzo, however I don't think he has used that in years.

2015-01-14 22:36

Richard "Gonzo" Lewis - Host :DDDDDDDDDDD

LOL I only know one gonzo :D

2015-01-14 22:14

cool

y no lurppis casting when it's in finland ffs

2015-01-14 21:28

he is head admin of the tournament.

2015-01-14 21:31

Lurppis is the tournament admin.

2015-01-14 21:33

If you can do so that penta and mouz gonna change groups.It's wrong to have 2 qualis in 1 group

volgare upset incoming

2015-01-14 21:29

ezpz volgare <3

VP so ez group :D VP in final > NiP/Titan

2015-01-14 21:30

gl volgare ;)

good group for penta! hope they will surprise and take one of the upper places in this tourney :)

2015-01-14 21:32

I think Penta will go through :)

Definatly possible for PENTA! Lets go. Volgare ez and new HR probably on the same personnal skill but new lineup so :P

GL VOLGARE

ez VP

Group A: 1. Virtus Pro 2. PENTA Group B: 1. Titan 2. NIP

Shiet RIP 3dmax i hope they can somehow achieve fourth place

EZ for Titan

2015-01-14 21:34

zet + fifflaren <3 de_dream

HellRaisers = -s1mple -markeloff = R.I.P :( ?

1.VP 2.NiP 3.Titan/Hr

2015-01-14 21:36

nip titan final plx. like the old days :D

PENTA & VP NIP & Titan

2015-01-14 21:37

gl Volgare !

2015-01-14 21:38

Go Penta Epta

2015-01-14 21:45

Volgare: I truly beleive u can catch HR and/or Penta. C'mon!

2015-01-14 21:46

Nice to see AlluMax vs MouseJ

2015-01-14 21:50

Agreed... definitely will be fun to see them awp it out lol.

2015-01-14 22:05

fuck! why anders godamit? hope others will stream too. i spit on that fanboy.

+1 Not for being a fanboi, but I Think their casting is shit. I prefer the FaceIT duo with ddk and James. Much more entertaining.

2015-01-26 12:46

Rip 3DMAX

2015-01-14 21:57

will be interesting to see a new HellRaisers<3

Titan

2015-01-14 21:59

group B group of death

2015-01-14 22:00

volgare might aswell not attend with that group lol e: also shit casters, no lurppis no party home soil etc. gotta watch the russian stream again lel

2015-01-14 22:03

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its possible that they wont, they seem to have trouble with funding the trip

2015-01-14 22:35

we will attend

2015-01-14 22:43

Oh nice, gl then! =)

2015-01-14 22:49

get rekt volgare lol

VP/Penta NiP/Titan

2015-01-14 22:15

n1 soumi

2015-01-14 22:18

Volgare ez <3

2015-01-14 22:20

lol volgare got money to go? D:

2015-01-14 22:26

2015-01-14 22:47

no lurppis :'(

2015-01-14 22:27

so kennyS, chrisJ, Allu & maikelele in one group, battle of the awpers :D

2015-01-14 22:28

Can't wait :)

2015-01-15 02:18

Poor volgare, i think they would like to play against NiP and Titan. Btw u can make it glgl.

2015-01-14 22:30

GL Volgare :) :)

Volgare got the easiest group possible, let's see what they can do.

Penta can do 2nd in their group :D

2015-01-14 22:42

Zet again. Fucking nice...

2015-01-14 22:48

Is it YLE or RoF commentators at the event? Hoping for a 3DMAX NIP upset. Would be sick on Finnish lan.

2015-01-14 23:01

ROF twitchis ja ylellä selostaa wabbit :D

2015-01-15 05:25

Osaan lukea kyllä. Tarkotin et jos menee paikan päälle kattoo.

2015-01-15 07:13

group B is gonna be awesome to watch.

2015-01-14 23:46

I'd love to see Richard Lewis on two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.

2015-01-15 00:00