Arbalet Cup reveals 2010 plans

9/11/2009 - 00:49

Arbalet Cup reveals their plans for 2010, including six events in Moscow, National events in Russia and Ukraine and last but not least the Arbalet Cup event located in Europe.

The organization named Arbalet has expanded its borders massively over the past twelve months. This evening the organization revealed their plans for 2010.

First of all, there will be six events in Moscow, taking place in February, April, June, August, October and December. Each event will see eight invited teams; four Russian, two Ukrainian, one Kazakh and one Belarusian. From time to time one Uzbekistan team will play instead of one Russian. Each event will have a total prize purse of $25.000, including travel and hotel expenses paid.

Secondly, every six month there will be national Arbalet Cup held in Russia and Ukraine. The events will only be for domestic teams, tournaments to determine the best teams in the country. Total prize purse for these events will be $12.000.

Final but not least, an Arbalet Cup will take place in Stockholm, named Arbalet Cup Europe. This event will gather the best sixteen in the world. Some of the teams for the Europe event will qualify through some of the six events taking place in Moscow. The Arbalet Cup Europe event will have a staggering $100.000 prize purse, really putting Arbalet Cup on the map, in terms of being a new major event and organizer.

The organizer furthermore announced that they have decided to invite CMAX.gg (tp.uSports) and HellRaisers for Arbalet Cup Europe (the 2009 event). Both teams failed to reach the two qualifying spots this weekend, at the Moscow qualifier, which went to EYESports and KerchNET .

This means that the participant list for Arbalet Cup Europe 2009 looks as follows:

SK Gaming
fnatic
MYM
mTw
AGAiN
WeMade FOX
Alternate
Evil Geniuses
Power Gaming
Ledpc
KerchNET
HellRaisers
EYESports
CMAX.gg

Stay tuned for more information regarding Arbalet Cup Europe 2009, which is to take place in the beginning of December in Stockholm, Sweden.

woOw

2009-11-09 00:52

niceeeeee!

2009-11-09 00:55

Wtf?They are so rich 100k prize omg...

2009-11-09 00:58

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Ofc we are rich :D haha

2009-11-09 16:12

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haha: D we?? xD do you know who owns Arbalet?

2009-11-10 18:27

What have you got to do with Arbalet?

2009-11-11 20:30

And just before the tournament we will read about the price purse being cut down by 85%

2009-11-09 01:00

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If the oil runs out..

4 replies

Or the market price drops How much you understand about global economics young man?

2009-11-11 20:36

A lot. It won't drop more.

2009-11-13 20:10

Well not in the next year for sure. If nothing drastic happens

2009-11-13 22:01

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That's right, and the tournament is next year;)

2009-11-14 01:25

Beatifull CUP Good Teams Great Price! AGAiN!

2009-11-09 01:01

GO MTW

2009-11-09 01:03

DreamHack and Arbalet Cup the best tournaments :P

2009-11-09 01:06

fuck me, beautiful cup, what cup? Cup of tea!?!?!?!?!?!? :D shameless bitch :)

Arbalet Cup has really grown in record time, it's impressive and cant waith for the Europe event.

2009-11-09 01:10

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"waith" for "wait" like "winter" got "Winther" in an earlier post. xP Don't mind just having some fun. xD By the way I just noticed from nowhere, that here on HLTV.org. "The Arbalet Cup Europe event will have a staggering $100.000 prize purse," means Hundred Dollars, shouldn't there be a comma sign(,) instead of full stop(.) "$190.000 prize cut at WCG 2009" 190 dollars only buddy thats change. xD

2009-11-09 02:40

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Well, you're correct, but the reason is, I guess, that here in Scandinavia we use 190.000 = 190000 and 190,00(0) = 190

2009-11-09 02:52

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Woah that is a little weird punctuations. :S

2009-11-09 02:59

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lol its the same over here :p but most ppl here just type 100k ^^ much easier and clears all mistakes :p

2009-11-09 08:15

Yeah that can be also done but you can't do it in formal cases.

2009-11-09 10:53

Or just 190 000, that's it :o)

2009-11-09 11:04

Well you understood the point, everyone did, so..

2009-11-09 12:38

But it's easy to learn, and helpfull :)

2009-11-09 16:09

Yeah once I move to Scandinavia. xD

2009-11-09 17:20

it's the most common in europe to use . instead of , when you are talking about numbers.

2009-11-09 18:28

pls add mouz :p

2009-11-09 01:21

No VP?

2009-11-09 01:22

They did not qualify.

2009-11-09 01:55

CMAX.gg & HR too, but they're invited.. VP is a good team, shame that they're not attending.

2009-11-09 02:25

well, there was a complicated situation with HR in the past Arbalet Qualifier which resulted in some confusion. And, personally I'm happy that tp.uSports were invited instead of VP, because tp.uSports had a recent roster change which only made this strong team stronger, on the other hand, VP looks much weaker without dinGo.

2009-11-09 07:08

Don't worry they will get an invite ;)

2009-11-09 10:54

arbalet ftw

2009-11-09 01:35

whats happening to KOde5?

2009-11-09 01:45

Great teams! Special first 9. Nice many. Look foward 2 c that event

2009-11-09 02:26

oh, please!

2009-11-09 07:10

Really cool plans, seems like Post Soviet nations are gonna rock. Really cool plans to encourage the eSports. Good going Arbalet Committee. CMAX.gg (tp.uSports) and HellRaisers also got it, like when they play good, somehow lost the sponsorship well there is an Invite.

2009-11-09 02:44

best event atm

2009-11-09 02:45

that is awesome!

2009-11-09 02:48

VP didn't even get an Invite or may be it might be on their way.

2009-11-09 03:02

nice

2009-11-09 05:05

YEAAAAHH!!!! great news! CMAX gl!

2009-11-09 06:01

gl cmax gl HR

2009-11-09 06:37

Nice line-up of teams. Great prizes too. It's gonna be a HELL OF A TOURNAMENT! WOO!

2009-11-09 06:58

Thx to Arbalet, this is awesome! gl HR, KNET, CMAXgg and of course fnatic :)

2009-11-09 07:13

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that the largest prize purse in Counter-Strike now? Maybe not larger than WCG's but it's nice to see that kind of cash going into this game, last time I seen an event that paid out like that was CPL. Great news, and this years cup looks to be a great one, amazing team list.

2009-11-09 07:45

yes, but there was several tournaments from Arbalet this year :)

2009-11-09 11:43

after my calculations(never thrust my calculations) there is 274 000 prize purse for all of the arbalet cups. esl has more then that. on the other hand. GREAT to see this kind of tournament growing. we need big tournaments for the ukraines, russians, etc. alot of talent there.

2009-11-09 12:03

I think k23 need more trening with new guy 'mouSe' and of course need Konstantin 'groove' Pikiner !

2009-11-09 07:55

Instead of?

2009-11-11 20:33

Arbalet sponsor Virtus.pro and k23. I think quotas it will give to them, only at first will look at their game on WCG. Without looking At all that it quotas did not take! Sorry for my English

2009-11-09 08:12

PLEASE ADD mousesports , Soa And Turmoil . This Will Be The Best Event Coming Up . Imo Even Better Than WCG . 8)

2009-11-09 08:38

gL WeMadeFOX, KerchNET, HellRaisers and mTw!!

2009-11-09 08:44

Any Asian teams ? :s Tyloo , wNv , add plzz :s

2009-11-09 09:36

Quote:Arbalet Cup event located in Europe. :)

2009-11-09 11:12

2009-11-09 11:41

WeMadeFOX isn't europe , as far i know :s

2009-11-09 11:42

Located, yes?

2009-11-09 09:44

<3 Arablet

2009-11-09 10:24

lol this tournament is each year better, Lets hope every good team can attend.

2009-11-09 10:31

tp.uSports GO. EYEsprots HR KerchNet gl.

2009-11-09 10:39

tp EYE go +vp k23

2009-11-09 10:59

led pc gl ;)

2009-11-09 11:07

EYE gogo xek > 3

2009-11-09 11:11

wow best event, ty Arbalet WeMade FOX after wcg change lineup pls need ari, hee

2009-11-09 11:25

it would be nice if some other teams from other countries could join. Another teams need some opportunities, and yes i'm dreaming with k1ck could join it too. lets see my point, i'm not talking just the fact of "k1ck" but the other teams too, like india ones, and the other too. It's good to their game and to grow up, and in fact in my opinion its much better to see low-skill teams playing in tournaments against the top teams and see what they can do and to help them in their gaming :x (sorry for my english it's not that good) :x

agree, if we want e sports to grow, people need to focus more on the teams that haven quite made it to the top, then just focusin 100% on the 5-6 teams that win every tournament thats played in a year. there should be more tournaments like this and gamegune

2009-11-09 12:04

Any ideas how to get invited?

2009-11-09 11:48

You won't, don't mind. :)

2009-11-11 20:34

they should invite k23 also :< and why no mouz?

2009-11-09 11:51

mouze suck, Maybe that's why?

2009-11-09 14:52

afaik the best thing on Arbalet Cup is that you get the money instantly in cash ;] Arbalet you've got a pretty good plan, I wish u good luck!

2009-11-09 13:34

PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ GET MOUZ AND H2K GAMING ALSO INFACT READY TO SHEDOUT CHARGE FOR STREAM IF ALL TEAMS + MOUZ,H2K COME

2009-11-09 13:41

Wow they have expand in quite fast period, this is huge news for CS 1.6 World scene, btw who is the owner? As far i know Arbalet is some kind of corporation in Kiev.

2009-11-09 13:50

Arbalet = crossbow - nickname :) one guy supports all of this. awesome, i think. here u can find some info and photos translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgameinside.ua%2Fshow_column.php%3Fcolumn_id%3D346&sl=ru&tl=en&history_state0=

2009-11-09 20:05

actually Arbalet is not an organization...Arbalet is a businessman from Kazakhstan who supports e-sport over ex-ussr and sponsors k23 and VP

2009-11-09 21:55

AGAiN old vtL? correct me if im wrong

2009-11-09 13:58

You're correct. AGAiN is Neo and the crew

2009-11-09 14:31

ARBALET, IS A GREATEST MAN IN THE WORLD !!!

2009-11-09 15:14

is there any site for Arbalet cup? I searched on google but couldn't find anything related to that. Help me out please.

2009-11-09 15:19

100,000$ NICE! Another big event upcomming :)

2009-11-09 15:22

- ledpc

2009-11-09 15:36

Wow! Nice teams, looking forward to this :)

2009-11-09 16:02

HLTV + tyloo! SK = champions in this cup.

2009-11-09 16:07

Awesome event! Only mouse, k23(I know quite overrated but nice to see themxP) and tyloo are missing for me ;d

k23 overrated? they are quite underrated imo

2009-11-09 17:22

They are slowly becoming overrated instead.. They used to underrated until everyone found out they were, so now people expect things from them, and they aren't what they once were imo. :)

With this money..Arbalet need good website, season calendar and events around the world like FORMULA1 World Championship, ATP Tennis or Poker world tour

2009-11-09 17:44

2 more teams pls invite one of : H2k/mousesports/oXmoze/millenium/ or tyloo/fg/mibr/wnv but i don't think the non-european teams will have money to pay the trip

2009-11-09 18:50

"The organization named Arbalet..." ?? actually Arbalet is not an organization...Arbalet is a businessman from Kazakhstan who supports e-sport over ex-ussr and sponsors k23 and VP

2009-11-09 18:54

Murat FTW!

2009-11-09 23:25