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Hellcase has revealed the details for their first CIS based online cup that will feature eight teams from the region and a $3,000 prize pool.

Hellcase Cup #1 is an online tournament that will take place between December 22-29, limited to eight invited CIS teams. The format will feature a BO3 round robin group stage leading into a BO3 double-elimination playoff bracket.

jmqa, arch and co. will be playing under the EPG banner in the Hellcase Cup

The eight invited teams have been split into the two following groups:

Group A	Group B
Quantum Bellator Fire	Tengri
EPG	zARLANS
1337	RuSh3D
Sniper Squad	BOOYAKA

The three best teams from each group will advance to the playoffs, with the best-placed team advancing directly to the upper bracket semi-final, and the second and third placed teams starting from the upper bracket round-of-6.

A $3,000 prize pool will be distributed to the best teams in the following way:

1. $1,750
2. $800
3. $450

For more details about the tournament and the detailed schedule, take a look at the Hellcase Cup #1 event page.

Professeur writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter.

EPG #57 Alexey 'ub1que' PolivanovSavelii 'jmqa' BraginVladyslav 'arch' SvistovDmitriy 'facecrack' AlekseyevNikita 'waterfaLLZ' Matveyev Sniper Squad Sergey 'Wierd_1k' TurRuslan 'D1medroL' GusmanovArtur 'shadowg0D' Nikolaev Tengri #48 Adlet 'keeN' NyrseytovAnuar 'sonic' AbuBektiyar 'fitch' BahytovRamazan 'Ramz1kBO$$' Bashizov RuSh3D Pavel 'AERO' SurmachAnatoliy 'liTTle' YashinAlexander 'spiker' IvanovArtem 'Art' ShevchenkoAleksei 'NickelBack' Trofimov Quantum Bellator Fire #65 Alexander 'uNdo' KiziukevichYaroslav 'It's my' UshkovGregory 'balblna' OleinickVasiliy 'FANAT ROCKA' TrusovIvan 'AiyvaN' Semenets BOOYAKA Dmitry 'hooch' BogdanovStepan 'brain' SivoronovNikolay 'latro' LeeKirill 'Boombl4' Mikhailov 1337 Mihail 'lma' LutovininAleksey '1uke' ZiminAlexey 'BAS' KustovRoman 'rommi' GolubevIlya 'paketa' Aleksandrovich zARLANS #77 Bekmuhamed 'Galantis' AzimhanovSanzhar 'neaLaN' IskhakovNurbol 'hpp' DyussembayevTimur 'buster' TulepovRoma 'flomaster' Tsay