Mr. Cat have announced an Asian regional online tournament featuring a $25,000 prize pool.?

Mr. Cat, an Asian tournament organiser have announced a fully online CS:GO tournament featuring some of the top regional teams, as well as a $25,000 prize pool. Sixteen Asian representatives will be fighting each other for a sizeable chunk of the prize pool, the distribution of which can be seen below:

1st place - $15,000
2nd place - $7,500
3rd place - $2,500

The format for the tournament will see a best-of-one round robin group stage, followed by double-elimination best-of-three playoffs and concluding with a best-of-five Grand final. The sixteen teams are distributed amongst four groups of four, the distribution may be seen below:
 

Group AGroup BGroup CGroup D TheMongolZ VG.Cyberzen Team nxl> TyLoo Team Signature Edward Gaming dreamScape MVP.Karnal Mineski BOOT.CN MiTH m0nster EMC 5Power Born of Fire NEW4


Following is the schedule for the group stage of the event, with all match times expressed in SGT:

September 16th, Friday
19:00 - TheMongolZ vs. Team Signature
20:00 - Team nxl> vs.  dreamScape
21:00 - BOOT.CN vs. 5Power
22:00 - Mineski vs. EMC

September 17th, Saturday
20:00 -
MiTH vs. Born of Fire

September 18th, Sunday
19:00 -
MVP.Karnal vs. NEW4

September 19th, Monday
19:00 -
m0nster vs. NEW4
20:00 - VG.Cyberzen vs. Edward Gaming

Headline image courtesy of StarLadder Flickr