ASUS ROG Winter 2019 CS:GO with ~$14,300 prize pool

8-1-2019 22:14

ASUS have revealed their ROG Winter 2019 CS:GO event featuring ~$14,300 in prize winnings.

Contrary to previous versions of ASUS ROG, this edition of the event has been limited to six participants in a bid to bring each match to the stage, making for an easier viewing experience for both the audience on-site and those watching at home.

The event will take place during the Assembly Winter 2019 festival at the Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre on the weekend of February 1-2. The format will feature a single-elimination, best-of-3 playoffs bracket.

ASUS ROG returns to Helsinki in 2019

Two of the six participants will be decided via open qualifiers available exclusively to Finnish teams. Said qualifiers will take place on January 13 and January 14, meanwhile the remaining four slots will be filled by teams issued direct invites to the event.

Teams looking to participate in the open qualifiers may do so by follow the links below:

Finnish Qualifier #1 (January 13) - Here
Finnish Qualifier #2 (January 14) - Here

ASUS ROG Winter 2019 prize distribution:

1. ~$8,000
2. ~$4,300
3. ~$2,000

2019-01-08 22:14

7 replies

YES I DID IT PLS GIVE ME ATTENTION

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Finnish event pog

2019-01-09 06:34

ez for ROG IZAKOOO

2019-01-08 22:15

just came here to give you my attention

2019-01-08 22:31

ty men this is my first first i would like to thank you in my acceptance speech

Expected

2019-01-09 08:49

Cool

good

lul

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14$k LUL

2019-01-08 22:18

lulmao

2019-01-09 00:00

ez tier500 tournament

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lol ence will play there so tier 1 event

2019-01-08 22:16

check flag out

2019-01-08 22:27

flag checks out*

2019-01-09 10:45

2019-01-08 23:00

ence isnt top 10 and thus shouldn't be considered tier 1.. tier 2 yes

2019-01-09 11:57

thought you understood that he was joking :D

2019-01-09 13:08

Nt ence is tier1

2019-01-10 11:06

big nt but no

2019-01-10 14:10

LOL FINLAND GOT A TOURNAMENT HAHA. HLTV WE DID IT PEEPS. WE ARGUED AND GOT WHAT WE WANTED

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We've had this shit yearly forever tho

2019-01-08 22:25

with money?

Sure liquipedia.net/counterstrike/Assembly/20..

2019-01-08 22:26

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soz man

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Np_man

2019-01-08 22:28

In Finland is hard to be cs player cuz even if you win everything you gotta tape #Kela In your shirt since these tournaments just are joke. I spent more money in booze last year and I aint having 100bil company.

2019-01-09 09:12

asus != asus nordic also if you aim to be "cs player", you'll never only compete nationally

2019-01-11 13:46

Is it hard to live with that attitude? Taking every post 100% seriously and trying to answer the most fact way? Oh and btw, I think im old enough gamer to know what makes you "cs player". Btw, you are cs-player even if you play it once a month.

2019-01-11 14:54

how is this relevant? and of course I'm taking posts seriously, why bother commenting if it's just bs?

2019-01-11 19:32

go drunk you are home

next major in finland confirmed

2019-01-09 09:09

+1 ence HLTV 1st 2019

2019-01-09 11:02

That's a lot of money bro

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more than ur whole family earning OMEGALUL

saying Nepal xaxaxaxaxa

2019-01-09 16:11

0/8 prodka

2019-01-09 16:17

not bait just true

2019-01-09 16:18

Pocket money for kids

EZ 4 ENCE

ttke you heard it from me in-game first ;)

2019-01-08 22:19

Good luck to all teams who compete there!

Perfect event for ence

2019-01-08 22:22

Maybe lulquid should go there, they could actually win it

2019-01-09 07:08

2019-01-09 10:58

Mad because I said it’s a good event for ence???? Ok.

2019-01-09 11:28

Ence wont go there

2019-01-09 13:04

nice tier 5 event

lol more like tier500

2019-01-08 23:47

I mean if u think ence, havu etc. tier 500 yes

2019-01-09 00:09

ENCE is top10

2019-01-09 08:12

Ence top 10 others 1000

2019-01-09 19:47

Asus is poor lol 14K tournament lmao

$14,300 is this 2009?

Yes

2019-01-09 06:06

2019-01-09 07:31

so much money

even for india

why not just announce a dreamhack open in helsinki or something ._.

why would we?

2019-01-09 01:43

Dreamhack open Helsinki when? Crowd would be amazing and no empty seats.

2019-01-08 22:29

Crowd would be drunk and armed with knives :D

2019-01-09 11:05

And you would be dead danskejävel

2019-01-09 11:06

I would'nt be there :)

2019-01-09 11:35

sick prize pool

2019-01-08 22:43

2019-01-08 22:45

LUL even cs 1.6 cups had more money in the price pool

2019-01-08 22:50

2019-01-08 22:59

2019-01-08 23:59

lol, gotta love how people act every event must be some big money shit, it is just smaller event for lesser teams xd

2019-01-08 22:58

Ye but DH Winter had 200k with lesser teams

2019-01-09 19:51

jOELZ inc

2019-01-08 23:08

Will izak goo?

2019-01-08 23:09

free win for ence

2019-01-08 23:11

No ence in this tournament

2019-01-09 01:59

final: ENCE vs HAVU

2019-01-08 23:25

if ence qualify for major - no ence in this ;C

2019-01-09 13:15

invite Team Izakooo it's 70 k extra viewers LUL

2019-01-09 01:45

2019-01-09 01:46

No ence probably

2019-01-09 14:37

MIBR SHUD BE INVITED

2019-01-09 02:14

Ez 4 you-know-who.

2019-01-09 06:45

ence might not be in this tournament

2019-01-09 13:14

Still ez 4 ence.

2019-01-09 13:50

ez4ence on majors

2019-01-09 15:48

Idk man. This amount of money at 2019 is like my weekly bar money and its coming from a big company like Asus, literally a fucking joke. Company like that could give 100k and it would feel same for the company's economy. Sad.

2019-01-09 09:08

Edit reply. Net income 2017, 15,545 Million US Dollars. asus.todayir.com.tw/html/ir_highlight.ph..

I doubt their budget in finland is really huge anyway so they need to think how to use it xd...

2019-01-09 17:43

If there are zero communications between asus finland and other asus offices, then im really worried about that company. If you do these tournaments right you get massive viewers and everybody loves Finland when they visit here, so its basically perfect place for big tournaments. Everything works well in Finland, starting from logistics. Add good hotels which you can always rely on. Etc etc.. Edit. link corecommunique.com/asus-ranked-one-fortu..

2019-01-09 17:58

Naturally IDK about their communication but seems they have no interest to invest in this anyway looking prize pool every year :/.

2019-01-09 18:08

you seem a bit delusional about economics related to "stream viewers"

2019-01-11 13:51

I never talked about how stream- viewers bring money, I only pointed out that one of the richest companies in world could afford 100k prize pool, even in country with size of Finland. ( Should I say here, Im not talking about geo size, seems like what ever you write you make your own story in your head ) Anybody being "happy" of these numbers are just happy to too little.

2019-01-11 14:52

so what are you comparing us to and with what parameters? the closest example of something working is sweden, but in sweden you have approximately double the population of finland if you throw out statements without background, naturally others won't know what you're referring to

2019-01-11 19:37

how do you guys think tier1 teams are born? they didnt start out from tier1. they played tourneys like these to become better.

2019-01-09 10:53

these are casual events with long traditions, "pro scene" isn't the primary focus side note: the summer version is one of the most "professional" demo scene events in the world

2019-01-11 13:48