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CPL Announces $1,000,000 Gaming World Tour

Posted by simoniker on from the a-meeeleeeion-dollars dept.

George Kaspiris writes "It seems the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) has announced a 2005 'CPL World Tour' with one million dollars in cash prizes, the largest cash prize ever for professional videogaming. The tour will include ten worldwide stops." There'll be more information revealed at the CPL World Championships (which includes Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament 2004, Call Of Duty, Halo PC, and Painkiller tournaments) in Texas this July, and over at independent eSports site Gotfrag, reaction has been largely positive, with commenters arguing "competitive gaming could become kinda like the PGA Tour", although another commenter worries: "Right now, there are far too few teams and players... that have the [financial or scheduling] ability to follow this series of tournaments around."

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  1. I'd compete... by Dizzle · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...if Minesweeper was one of the games.

    --
    -Dizzle
    "I most likely AM so interested in myself."
  2. This Stuff NEEDS to be Televised by superpulpsicle · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Alright, if world poker tour makes ESPN, video game CAL tournaments has got to at least make tech TV. There needs to be a channel dedicated to gaming.

    1 pm wolfenstein hour
    2 pm UT2004 hour
    3 pm Call of Duty madness

    Look at that.... this channel will be a hit. They can take all the server battles and enhance the taping with a ridiculous graphics card and play it on TV.

    1. Re:This Stuff NEEDS to be Televised by Tetrad_of_doom · · Score: 3, Interesting

      There was a network dedicated to video games, but they only had about 2 hours of new programming a week, and it was almost all fluff.

      They even had regular gaming competitions with their Arena program, but it turned out most of it was faked and they treated the contestants horribly.

      The problem, I think, was that the executives in charge (who are most likely older than 50 and probably have played few video games themselves) spent all their time pushing an X-Treme Ultracool format with almost no regard for actual content.

      Now they've merged with TechTV they've got a change to f-up a second network.

      One day, we might have some good video game television shows, but it is probably about 10 years away. Only then will we have some network executives that actually grew up with video games and can think of good ways of protraying them on TV.

  3. Re:Surprise surprise... by Tetrad_of_doom · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I agree. There should at least be an RTS or a sports title in there.