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The multi-gaming league Starladder hasn't even ended, and already ASUS is following up on its success with the announcement of the ASUS Open 2012, a year-long series of tournaments featuring the same games as the Starladder, including Bloodline Champions.The ASUS Open will feature three seasonal qualifying cups, starting this April through May with the Spring Cup, which all lead up to the LAN finals in November 2012. Every online cup will qualify the three best teams for the final tournament, with an additional three teams qualifying through the ASUS Kiev Lan. These twelve teams will then face off for the grand prize in the Kiev Cybersports Arena in November.Each online qualifier sports a prize purse of 55.000 rubbles (~$1850), the ASUS Lan qualifier offers 30.000 rubbles (~$1000), and another 260.000 rubbles (~$9000) in prizes is secured for the grand finals. In total, that's 455.000 rubbles, or over $15.000 in prizes!A big downside, though, is that the ASUS Open is restricted to Russian and Baltic regions only. Unless ASUS decides to lift this restriction at a later date, this means we will not be seeingor any of the other top European teams competing.Registration for the Spring Cup opened today at AsusOpen.com . Rules, tournament formats and the dates of the other cups have yet to be announced, as well as livestream coverage of the tournaments.