CPL Counter-Strike Event Gets $60,000 Winner

fluor2 writes "Team Schroet Kommando from Sweden have won the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) Counter-Strike Summer Event in Dallas, Texas. The team won $60,000, from a total cash purse of $200,000. SK.swe did not lose a single match, even against US #1 team Team 3D, who finished 3rd. Team 9, also from Sweden, grabbed second place in a exciting final. There's more info via Netfire's videos and demos from the tournament, SoGamed's CPL coverage and The CPL's official final standings." The final showdown was held on de_dust2, naturally.

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The 'Cyberathlete' Professional League?

[Sheetrock]

We ought to work out some form of triathalon involving cyberathletic computer gaming, roleplaying, and bowling. I've even got a title: 'Race To A Coronary'.

I don't know how gamers can call themselves cyberathletes without sniggering at least a little bit every time they hear the word. We come in just below professional haggis-and-butter eating contest participants on the health chart.

Re:The 'Cyberathlete' Professional League?

[Danse]

Exactly. It's much more like a butter-eating relay of some sort, carried out while sitting around a table and shouting obscenities at each other.

hacking?

[Tuxinatorium]

How can they possibly be sure that nobody's hacking? Some clas might have their own secret home-grown hax that won't show up on any hack detectors (which basically just scan for KNOWN hax programs) The ONLY way to ensure fairness would be to take all the computers the tournament will be played on, reformat the hard drives, reinstall windows, and never let that comp leave the observation of a tournament official for the rest of the tournament. With any other security measures it would be easy to circumvent them and cheat with secret clan-only programs. I doubt the organizers took such extreme measures though. CS is ridden with cheaters, and there's not a damn thing admins can do about it aside from observing and guessing who's using the latest version of (insert hack here) that gets around all anti-hack scanners (until those get updated too). If the program is written well, it can be impossible to tell the difference btween a good player and a hack.

Re:hacking?

[JavaLord]

Hah, never mind the ones that clans write for themselves, I have a publically available CS bot that no hack detection can pick up right now.

Re:hacking?

[Cornflake917]

If the program is written well, it can be impossible to tell the difference btween a good player and a hack.

Once you've been playing long enough it gets pretty easy to tell the difference.

The matches are played on tournament computers. Which all have the exact same hardware/software. They are closely monitored by CPL volunteers 24/7. While the matches are being played the players are being constantly watched by the CPL staff. The BYOC area is just for clans to practice before the matches. And even then, if you think someone is cheating you can just go over to their computer and watch them. If you catch them cheating you can a) bitch slap them or b) get them thrown out and disqualify their team.

CAL is another story though. Every month the CAL admins ban a whole new set of cheaters. It's not surpising though considering theres at least 5,000 clans in CAL-open alone.

Re:CAL/CPL

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

Or play on the cal-i ran servers like pub.team3d.net.
Bots are stupid and always will be. They can shoot great and react instantly, but they dont know what to do. All you have to do is plant in a weird spot and they'll never defuse, or plant in the open and shoot them through a wall as they all go for the bomb instead of shooting you back.

Bots are good for practice however, And you don't need 1.6. Check out PODBot(google for it) for a nice bot for 1.5 or earlier.

Just Came back from CPL

[Cornflake917]

And it was a incredibly enjoyable event. There were some incredibly close matches... some going to into overtime or double-ot (including my match). If you guys are wondering what kind of stuff happens at this event you can download coverage at cpl.netfire.com.These videos include some good interviews with top players and summaries of the better matches.