The ASUS Cup is probably the toughest Quake tournament in the world that has a prize purse of under $800. The legendary Anton 'Cooller' Singov can testify to that, as he only took fifth place, losing to aSH, a player that was not even seeded and went to the lower bracket after meeting Zhibo 'RazerJ' Fan in the very first round.
The competition in Moscow was the last chance for Alexei 'Cypher' Yanushevsky to redeem himself for the fiasco at the ESWC Masters Athens where he took fourth place. There was no better way for him to do it than to beat Jibo in the final 2-0, 2-0 after being knocked down to the lower bracket by him earlier.
Final Standings:
1. Cypher - $365.00
2. RazerJ - $220.00
3. Question - $145.00
4. aSH - $73.00
5-6. Cooller, enemy
7-8. Nitrino, Makaveli










http://cup.c58.ru/live/center.php?tourney=12&game=q3&PHPSESSID=ba726c50a8b88efe8e1ef3d06ddffa89
The tournaments need a high prize purse for a fast 1on1 game!
2005(or was it 2006) was great with the CPL World tour and painkiller, even if i never played painkiller :D
Congrats Cypher!
Cypher is amazing, I guess what happened in Athens was mainly beause, as he said in the 1on1 interview, 1st place at ESWC08 was his only goal, everything else is optionnal.
The best player in the world!