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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