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Fatal1ty Walks Away With CPL Purse
Via the Guardian Gamesblog, the news that Jonathan Wendel (Fatal1ty) won a large cash and loot prize for his victory at the Cyberathlete Professional League championships. From the BBC article: "In all 32 players battled for the grand final title but the fight for the top two places became a showdown between Mr Wendel (aka Fatal1ty) and Mr Kaasjager (aka Voo). The pair have dominated the tournament as it hopped around the globe. The CPL World Tour was played out over ten stops held in nine nations around the world throughout 2005. Top players at the tour stops won places in the grand final. Players took each other on at the Painkiller computer game."
Yeah, it was first in a series of CPL's gamehopping.
CPL: Hey, They say painkillers going to be awesome, lets use it as our new game!
{painkiller is released, isn't horrible, but lacks balance among other things}
CPL:..Oh, but dude, did you see that doom3 trailer? LEETSAUCE! lets have a doom3 tourney instead! its going to be awesome!
{doom3 comes out. shadowboxing: not the most fun to watch. gigabyte sized demos: not good for tourneys}
CPL:..Whoops. But check out F.E.A.R! The screenshots are so pretty, this is the shizzle, yall.
{FEAR comes out, sucks.}
CPL:..my bad, but wow, quake4! made by the same people that made the only good DM game(quakeworld)..wait, whats that? Raven software isn't idsoftware? oh..but heretic! that was fun singleplayer, so this must make a good multiplayer game. tourney time!
Meh. Refine something good rather than hopping around to something untested.
Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive. Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx
MTV will broadcast the television special "From Game To Fame: The CPL World Tour Finals" on Saturday, November 26, 2005 at 8:00PM ET/PT and 7:00PM CT/MT. This is the first USA television broadcast of a Grand Finals e-sports event. Both MTV and CPL have been collaborating on the production of this show.
Furthermore, CBS 60 Minutes is expected to air a segment on esports and CPL on Sunday, December 11, 2005. Check local listing for broadcast time. Over 10 million people watch 60 Minutes every week.
From the article:
He took home $150k.
Year to date for him is now $230k.
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From the announcements it went more like:
CPL: "Hey, Doom! Everyone will want to play that! How about some sponsorship, iD?"
ID: "We're not giving you money to play our game."
CPL: "Oh... Uh..."
DREAMCATCHER: "Hey, we got this cool game, 'Painkiller' and here's your donation!"
CPL: "Ladies, we have a new official game!"
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
There's no way what I just watched was from MTV. There were no commercial interruptions, the gameplay was on the screen 95% of the time, the announcers knew what they were talking about, there was no product placement, they showed the full duration of the match-besides having to use IE and WMP, there was no intrusion whatsoever. This cannot be MTV.
The Braying and Neighing of Barnyard Animals Follows.