Match fixtures for the 1st round of 2007/08 season of the National Professional Cybersports League (NPCL) were officially announced last Saturday. As it was reported earlier NPCL has chosen CS:Source as an official discipline for the upcoming season, which will see 18 professional Russian teams compete in two divisions with total prize fund of about USD 100,000.

The final participants' list represents a promising combination of world-famous old school 1.6s (such as Virtus.pro, Begrip Gaming and others) and country's leading CS:Source teams (MGC, Empire, Seven.pro, SVN, PinCho).

The season takes-off in October with first nine games to take place at '4game' gaming centre (Moscow). The opening match of the season will feature a well-known 1.6 team forZe and the best Russian CS:Source team so far - MGC. All games of the 1st round are to be played on de_dust2 and de_train.

Full 1st round fixtures:

Div.A

forZe vs MGC (5 October)
Begrip Gaming vs Aggressive Attack (12 October)
Virtus.pro vs EmpirE (19 October)
TRAP vs Seven.pro (26 October)

Div.B

SVN vs CSKA (15 October)
Cyber vs Deathfish (17 October)
Spectr.su vs NLN.ru (22 October)
Team 46 vs MTD (24 October)
Spb.Islanders vs Pincho (29 October)