CPL Announces Summer Championship Event
Tuesday, February 12, 2002
By CPL Press Service

The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL), the most prominent professional computer gaming league in the world, announced today the details of the highly anticipated Summer Championship event, to take place in Dallas, Texas USA.

The five-day CPL Summer Championship event will take place Saturday, July 13 to Wednesday, July 17, 2002 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, in downtown Dallas, Texas.

The primary tournament game will be Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, currently being co-developed by Gearbox Software (www.gearboxsoftware.com) and Valve, LLC (www.valvesoftware.com). Condition Zero extends the award-winning Counter-Strike multiplayer game with new maps and weapons, while simultaneously introducing new technologies, an extensive single player campaign, and cooperative play.

Condition Zero will include the latest version of the number-one online action game, Counter-Strike, which will be updated to include some of the weapons, characters, scenarios and technology developed for Condition Zero. Total cash prizes for the tournament will be $100,000. Complete tournament rules will be released March 15, 2002. For more information on Condition Zero visit www.cs-conditionzero.com

The secondary tournament game for the CPL Summer Championship event will be the popular Half-Life World War II conversion: Day of Defeat. The 32 team tournament will use a double elimination format with six players on each team. Day of Defeat is a World War II multiplayer game that attempts to recreate WWII battles in both fictional and non-fictional environments. Day of Defeat puts the player in the shoes of either an Allied or Axis soldier circa 1944, Western Europe.

Day of Defeat programmer, Brandon Russell aka Axis, stated "Day of Defeat 2.0 has a lot of great qualities that will make for great tournament play at the CPL. 2.0 now makes full use of the new spectator and HLTV features. It also takes hold of the voice system so players can now communicate across the map and complete their objectives as a team. Teams will find themselves communicating, working and pushing forward as a team." This tournament will have $25,000 in cash prizes. Complete tournament rules will be released March 15, 2002. For more information on Day of Defeat 2.0 visit www.dayofdefeatmod.com.

The Cyberathlete Amateur League (CAL), a division of the CPL, will be holding a Team Fortress Classic (TFC) tournament in the BYOC section of the CPL Summer Championship event. The tournament will allow a maximum of 16 teams of eight players each. Seeding will be determined through the TFC league currently running in CAL. Various prizes will be awarded to the winning teams. Rules and prize details will be announced March 15, 2002. For more information on CAL visit www.caleague.com.

"It's an honor to have Team Fortress and Counter-Strike selected for the CPL Summer Championships," said Doug Lombardi, director of marketing at Valve. "The 2001 season was an incredible success, capped off with a world class CS final last December. We're looking forward to taking things to the next level in 2002."

The Hyatt Regency Hotel will be accepting reservations for the CPL Summer Championship event commencing on Tuesday, February 19, 2002. The rate for a single or double occupancy room will be $99 a night. There is a limited amount of rooms available at this discounted price, participants should make their room reservations as expeditiously as possible, by using the Hyatt toll-free number (800) 223-1234.

The cost of admission for the CPL Summer Championship event is $50 per person. The league's new online registration system will be launched on Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at www.thecpl.com/index.html?p=registration. The new secure registration site will accept all major credit cards.

Details on other activities, including a larger Consummate Computer Competition (C3) , sponsor hosted tournaments, 700 computer BYOC section and a large dual-purpose spectator area, will be announced in the coming weeks at the CPL's main web site, located at www.thecpl.com.

The CPL estimates that over 2,000 people will attend the Summer Championship event. Sponsors for this event will include Logitech (www.logitech.com), Speakeasy (www.speakeasy.net), Belkin (www.belkin.com), Bawls (www.bawls.com), U-tron (www.utron.com) and others.