ASUS Spring Masters groups drawn

The groups for the ASUS Spring Masters 2010 tournament has been drawn, seeing thirteen out of sixteen participants.

ASUS Spring Masters 2010 will feature sixteen attending teams, and a staggering prize pool of 525,000 rubles (€13,850), distributed into all the game genres. The gathering will take place at Moscow's finest Internet cafe, Click-Arena.

The event is scheduled to the 23rd of May, and will see a group-stage-format advancing the top two teams. The playoff stage will exercise single-elimination, best-of-one. 

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
forZe	UNiTED	KerchNET	PinG
DS.iNSIGHT	NNStyle	WEBPLUS	One Click
gr2d!overPRO.ru	unnamed	USSR	44
TBA	TBA	TBA	Museum

As you can see in the groups above, three teams have yet to qualify to the main event. Its qualifier will be held on the 22nd of May, also at the Click-Arena, and feature a €5,270 prize pool.

Furthermore, gameinside.ua understands that the ASUS Spring Masters 2010 event will act as a Russian pre-qualifier, where teams and players will be able to qualify to an event in Ostankino, Russia, sometime later.