Cyberathlete Professional League
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The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) was founded in 1997 by Angel Munoz as a professional sports tournament specializing in first-person shooters for computer gamers.
The CPL holds tournaments throughout the USA, Europe, Latin America and Asia, and has hosted a variety of teams and players usually regarded as the best in their respective games. The CPL's tournaments are open to all registrants but also exist qualifier tournaments and invitations for some teams and players, although there is an age limit of at least 17 due to ESRB content rating concerns with the exception of some "teen" rated games where a player can register with a parental consent form at the age of 16.
As of early 2006, the CPL has distributed more than $3,000,000 USD in prize money. The CPL's aim is to make computer gaming a viable competitive and spectator event, on the level of athletic sports. They are a driving force in e-sports and are widely respected as a major player in person competitions. Since 1998, legendary game designer John Romero has served as the chairman of the CPL Advisory Board.
- 1 Partners
- 2 CAL Division
- 3 Past winners
- 3.1 Alien vs. Predator 2
- 3.2 Call of Duty
- 3.3 Counter-Strike
- 3.4 Counter-Strike: Source
- 3.5 Day of Defeat
- 3.6 Descent III
- 3.7 Doom 3
- 3.8 F.E.A.R.
- 3.9 Grand Prix 4, Serious Sam and Scrabble
- 3.10 Halo PC
- 3.11 Halo 2
- 3.12 Midtown Madness 2
- 3.13 Painkiller
- 3.14 Quake I
- 3.15 Quake II
- 3.16 Quake II Female
- 3.17 Quake III
- 3.18 Quake III Female
- 3.19 Quake III Team Deathmatch
- 3.20 Quake IV
- 3.21 Team Fortress Classic
- 3.22 Unreal Tournament 2003
- 3.23 Unreal Tournament 2004
- 3.24 Warcraft III
- 4 World Tour 2005
- 4.1 Turkey
- 4.2 Spain
- 4.3 Brazil
- 4.4 Sweden
- 4.5 USA
- 4.6 Germany
- 4.7 UK
- 4.8 China
- 4.9 Singapore
- 4.10 Italy
- 4.11 Chile
- 4.12 Finals
- 5 CPL Divisions
- 6 Official Media Partners
- 7 External links
Partners
For 2006 the CPL has announced the microprocessors manufacturer, AMD as its lead title sponsor, and ATI Technologies as a secondary title sponsor. The CPL is also sponsored by Pizza Hut, BenQ, Razer, Plantronics, Verizon and [Insomnia 365].The supporting sponsors for the USA CPL events are: D-Link, [L-com] and [Steel Series].
The official Television Media Partner for the CPL is DirecTV, its On-Line Media Partner is GotFrag and its Documentary Partner is [Cohesion Productions].
CAL Division
- Main article: Cyberathlete Amateur League
Past winners
The following list shows previous winners of various events and tournaments the CPL has held in a variety of games and locations since its foundation in 1997.
Alien vs. Predator 2
- 2001 - CPL World Championship Event: Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel ([Fatal1ty])
Call of Duty
- 2004 - Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships: United 5
Counter-Strike
- 2000 - Babbage's CPL Event: e9 (Sweden)
- 2001 - Speakeasy CPL Event: Xtreme 3 Blue (USA)
- 2001 - CPL Pentium® 4 Invitational: Xtreme 3 Blue (USA)
- 2001 - CPL World Championship Event: NiP (Sweden)
- 2002 - CPL Pentium® 4 Summer Championship: Schroet Kommando (Sweden)
- 2002 - CPL Pentium® 4 Winter Event: Team 3D (USA)
- 2003 - CPL Pentium® 4 Summer Championship: Schroet Kommando (Sweden)
- 2003 - CPL Pentium® 4 Winter Championship: Schroet Kommando (Sweden)
- 2004 - Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships: Eyeballers (Sweden)
- 2004 - Cyberathlete® Extreme Winter Championships: NoA (Norway and North America)
- 2005 - Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships: Schroet Kommando (Sweden)
- 2005 - Cyberathlete® Extreme Winter Championships: Schroet Kommando (Sweden)
Counter-Strike: Source
- 2005 - Cyberathlete Extreme Summer Championships: PowersGaming, 8th place The Existence #ex @ irc.gamesurge.net[link]
Day of Defeat
- 2004 - Cyberathlete® Extreme Winter Championships: Highball
- 2005 - Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships: Check Six
Descent III
- 1999 - Descent 3 World Championships: Chris "fatal" Bond
Doom 3
- 2004 - Cyberathlete® Extreme Winter Championships: Meng 'RocketBoy' Yang
F.E.A.R.
- 2005 - Cyberathlete® Extreme Winter Championships: Neal "cleaner" Sisbarro
Grand Prix 4, Serious Sam and Scrabble
- 2003 - Yahoo! Digital Master Game Tournament: Maria Rubin
Halo PC
- 2003 - CPL Pentium® 4 Winter Championship: Xeno
- 2004 - Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships: [Team Wat?]
Halo 2
- 2005 - Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships: Team 3D
- 2005 - Cyberathlete® Extreme Winter Championships: ABob - Alex Redard
Midtown Madness 2
- 2000 - Gateway Country Challenge: John Michael Benedict
Painkiller
- 2004 - Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships: Sander 'Vo0' Kaasjager ([Team Fnatic])
- 2004 - Cyberathlete® Extreme Winter Championships: Sander 'Vo0' Kaasjager ([Team Fnatic])
- 2005 - CPL World Tour, Turkey: Sander 'Vo0' Kaasjager ([Team Fnatic])
- 2005 - CPL World Tour, Spain: Stephan 'SteLam' Lammert ([SK Gaming])
- 2005 - CPL World Tour, Brazil: Sander 'Vo0' Kaasjager ([Team Fnatic])
- 2005 - CPL World Tour, Sweden: Sander 'Vo0' Kaasjager ([Team Fnatic])
- 2005 - CPL World Tour, USA: Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel ([Fatal1ty])
- 2005 - CPL World Tour, UK: Sander 'Vo0' Kaasjager ([Team Fnatic])
- 2005 - CPL World Tour, Singapore: Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel ([Fatal1ty])
- 2005 - CPL World Tour, Italy: Sander 'Vo0' Kaasjager ([Team Fnatic])
- 2005 - CPL World Tour, Chile: Alexander "ztrider" Ingarv ([Team Fnatic])
- 2005 - CPL World Tour Final: Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel ([Fatal1ty])
Quake I
- 1997 - The FRAG: Tom 'Gollum' Dawson
- 1998 - The CPL Event: Dan 'Rix' Hammans
- 2001 - CPL 4-Year Anniversary Event: Harley 'HarlsoM' Grey
Quake II
- 1998 - FRAG 2: Dan 'Rix' Hammans
- 1999 - Extreme Annihilation: Kurt 'Immortal' Shimada
Quake II Female
- 1999 - GroundZero: Anne "Lilith" Chang
Quake III
- 1999 - FRAG 3: Amir 'Hakeem' Haleem
- 1999 - GroundZero: Mark 'Wombat' Larsen
- 2000 - Razer CPL Event: Jonathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel
- 2000 - CPL Asia Atomic Arena: Henrik 'Blue' Björk
- 2000 - CPL Europe Mplayer: Jonathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel
- 2000 - Babbage's CPL Event: John 'ZeRo4' Hill
- 2001 - CPL Pacific Atomic Event: Jonathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel
- 2001 - CPL Latin America (Brazil): Guilherme 'reef' Bento Radominski
- 2001 - CPL Europe (Netherlands): Alexey "death" Alexeev
- 2002 - Nostromo Exhibition Tournament: John 'ZeRo4' Hill
Quake III Female
- 2000 - FRAG 4: Cary 'Succubus' Szeto
- 2000 - Babbage's CPL Event: Cary 'Succubus' Szeto
Quake III Team Deathmatch
- 2000 - FRAG 4: [Clan Kapitol]
- 2002 - CPL Europe (Cologne): forZe
Quake IV
- 2005 - Cyberathlete® Extreme Winter Championships: Anton "cooller" Singov ([mousesports])
Team Fortress Classic
- 2002 - CPL Pentium® 4 Winter Event: Vindicate
Unreal Tournament 2003
- 2002 - CPL Pentium® 4 Winter Event: Jonathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel
Unreal Tournament 2004
- 2004 - Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships: [Schroet Kommando]
Warcraft III
- 2005 - Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships: Yoan 'ToD' Merlo ([4Kings])
World Tour 2005
At the 2004 Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships, the CPL announced details on its largest event ever, the CPL World Tour. This unprecedented event took place throughout 2005, with a total of 10 international stops and a finals event held in the New York City USA and televised by MTV, reportedly over one million people watched the finals on television.
The total purse was $1,000,000 USD, with $50,000 USD at each international stop, and a $500,000 final. The official game of the 2005 World Tour was Painkiller. The CPL's "strategic partners," organizations designated to operate regional World Tour stops, also chose to hold smaller tournaments for other popular competitive games, such as Counter-Strike.
Turkey
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
- Date: March 25 - March 27, 2005
- Champion: Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager
- Strategic Partner: E-Sportr
Spain
- Location: Barcelona, Spain
- Date: April 29 - May 1, 2005
- Champion: Stephan "SteLam" Lammert
- Strategic Partner: E-Life Europe
Brazil
- Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Date: May 27 - May 30, 2005
- Champion: Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager
- Strategic Partner: Marketing Cell
Sweden
- Location: Jönköping, Sweden
- Date: June 16 - June 19, 2005
- Champion: Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager
- Strategic Partner: E-Sport Entertainment Group
USA
- Location: Dallas, Texas, USA
- Date: July 6 - July 10, 2005
- Champion: Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel
- Organiser: [The CPL®]
Germany
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Date: Cancelled
- This stop was cancelled due to "critical logistical challenges", this stop was replaced by the Italy stop.
UK
- Location: Sheffield, UK
- Date: September 2nd - September 4th, 2005
- Champion: Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager
- Strategic Partner: [Gamefrontier]
China
- Location: Beijing, China
- Date: Cancelled
- This stop was also cancelled due to the Ministry of Culture banning Painkiller in China. A replacement stop was held in Singapore.
Singapore
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Date: October 14th - October 16th, 2005
- Champion: Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel
- Strategic Partner: Edge of Reality
Italy
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Date: October 20th - October 23rd, 2005
- Champion: Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager
- Strategic Partner: [smau]
Chile
- Location: Santiago, Chile
- Date: October 28th - October 30th, 2005
- Champion: Alexander "Ztrider" Ingarv
- Strategic Partner: [LAN-Z.net]
Finals
The World Tour Grand Finals took place between November 20th and 22nd and were hosted in New York City, United States of America.The CPL Finals hosted the top 32 Painkiller winners from all stops around the globe. They pitted in a one versus one tournament for the largest first place prize in competitive gaming history: $150,000 USD. The total prize fund for the finals tournament was $500,000, the largest ever for one game.
The champion of the 2005 CPL World Tour was Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel, who took out the large prize of $150,000. Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager was named the MVP of the tour and took $100,000 for becoming the runner-up in the finals.
The Top 10 Money Makers in the 2005 World Tour
| Top 10 Before Finals | Top 10 After Finals |
| 1. Netherlands - Vo0 ( $112,000 ) | 1. Netherlands - Vo0 ( $232,000 ) |
| 2. United States of America - Fatal1ty ( $81,000 ) | 2. United States of America - Fatal1ty ( $231,000 ) |
| 3. Sweden - Ztrider ( $61,500 ) | 3. Italy - stermy ( $111,000 ) |
| 4. Germany - zyz ( $52,750 ) | 4. Germany - zyz ( $102,750 ) |
| 5. Italy - stermy ( $41,000 ) | 5. Sweden - Ztrider ( $ 86,500 ) |
| 6. Canada - gellehsak ( $28,750 ) | 6. Italy - booms ( $37,500 ) |
| 7. Germany - SteLam ( $21,750 ) | 7. Canada - gellehsak ( $35,000 ) |
| 8. United Kingdom - Zaccubus ( $11,750 ) | 8. Germany - SteLam ( $28,000 ) |
| 9. Russia - Lexer ( $6,000 ) | 9. United States of America - wombat ( $21,750 ) |
| 10. United States of America - wombat ( $4,250 ) | 10. Italy - ForresT ( $13,750 ) |
CPL Divisions
It's expected that in mid-2006 the CPL, together with its international partners, will announce a series of licenced divisions to bring worldwide the experience of the CPL events. The organization already has announced the following divisions:CPL China
Strategic Partner: Media Gaming Live Pte Ltd
CPL Australia
Strategic Partner: E-Sports Management Australia (ESMA) Pty Ltd
CPL Chile
Strategic Partner: ALM Ingenieria (LAN-Z) S.A.
CPL Brazil
Strategic Partner: Made in Brazil Esportes Eletrônicos (MiBR) Ltda
CPL Korea
Strategic Partner: International e-Sports Group, Inc (IEG)
CPL Nordic
Strategic Partner: E-Sport Entertainment Group AB (EEG)
CPL Italy
Strategic Partner: A.S. Play.it (ASPI)
Official Media Partners
External links
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