ASUS Winter groups drawn

The groups for ASUS Winter 2011 have been drawn and the 34 attending teams have now learned who they will face in the first group-stage.

The last participants for the tournament were found this week and the organizers have now announced the groups. The first group-stage sees eight groups, where six counts four teams and two groups will have five teams. The first group-stage will be played Saturday February 26.

Top two placed in each group will advance to the second group-stage, which will also be played on Saturday. The groups for ASUS Winter 2011 are:

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Moscow Five	Alternate	USSR	Power Gaming
KerchNET	Just	Lucky	Ultimo
Snatch	Headache	Aimteam	zNation
fbgaming	team32	fnoL	Destiny
Group E	Group F	Group G	Group H
selectah	k23	Iron Will	ARENA
dateam	Storm	DTS	A-Gaming
inGame.ru	double damage	NPME	FATAL
3akBoTou	zvh	ABTOMAT	artstyle
TT	VIST

The €7,300 competition will continue Sunday with the playoffs, which will be played best-of-three maps in a single elimination bracket. ASUS Winter 2011 will take place in Kiev CyberSport Arena and you will be able to follow all of the action right here on HLTV.org.