The groups for ASUS Winter 2010 have been drawn and we now know how the thirty-two teams have been divided.

ASUS Winter 2010 will be staged this Tuesday in Moscow, at the Click-Net LAN center. The tournament will kick off in a group stage, with eight groups of four teams, where top two finishing teams will advance to the playoffs. The playoffs will be played in a best-of-one map single-elimination format, when reaching the semi-finals, the teams will be playing best-of-three maps instead, which will also be the format in the Grand Final.

While the groups were drawn earlier today, a report from Moscow states that the Ukrainian team KerchNET will not make it to Moscow. The team was told to get off the train at the Russian/Ukrainian border, as the team was not allowed entrance into Russia, due to passport issues. No replacement will drop in, meaning one group consist of just three teams.

The groups for ASUS Winter 2010, now featuring thirty-one teams, looks as follows:

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
EGIPTYANE	K29	UNiTED	A Team
Stay Alive	88-gaming	KerchNET	Killers
MEGAPORT	uu	NoName	DS_insight
centergo	CL$N_K@K_Pro	Imbalance	One_Click
Group E	Group F	Group G	Group H
DTS.chatrix	A-Gaming	forZe	PinG
Temporary	Rush3D	Begrip	3000$
New Wave	44	K2	Binifactor
GAMERFRAG	Hallelujah	Sprayed by	wRa

It is a strong field that will compete this Tuesday in Moscow. We have the Arbalet Cup February winners from UNiTED, runners up from PinG, third place finisher forZe, the Ukrainian team of DTS.chatrix, Temporary consisting of well known Russian-faces and most likely teams to pull an upset or two.

The tournament will kick off at 08:30CET Tuesday with the group stage, so get up early if you want to follow the action from ASUS Winter 2010. The tournament scheduled will be released only one our prior to start, so browse your way onto HLTV.org in the morning to check out when the games will be on.