The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) announced that as part of its 2006 World Season, primarily sponsored by AMD and ATI, it will host major tournaments & qualifiers for Counter-Strike 1.6, Quake 3 and others in the following nine countries: Singapore, Chile, Korea, China, Brazil, Italy, Australia, Sweden and the USA.

This year’s season will commence with a series of national online qualifiers at the Cyberathlete Amateur League (CAL) on Friday, September 1, 2006.

The national final events will take place as follows:

Sept 15-17 -- Singapore National Finals - Singapore
Oct 20-22 -- Chile National Finals - Concepcion, Chile
Oct 26 -- Korea National Finals - Seoul, Korea
Oct 28-29 -- China National Finals - Chengdu, China
Nov 10-12 -- Australia National Finals - Queensland, Australia
Nov 15-19 -- Brazil National Finals - Sao Paulo, Brazil
Nov 24-26 -- Italy National Finals - Verona, Italy
Nov 30-Dec 3 -- Nordic Finals - Jonkoping, Sweden

The World Season will culminate at the CPL 2006 Championship Finals, which will take place Wednesday, December 13 to Sunday, December 17, 2006 at the landmark Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Dallas.

The $150,000 Championship Finals, sponsored by AMD, ATI, Pizza Hut, BenQ, Plantronics, Razer and Insomnia365 will have extensive television coverage from DirecTV, as part of their inaugural Championship Gaming Series and will air on DirecTV’s Channel 101. GotFrag TV will offer streaming coverage live from the event.

The tournament registration for the Championship Finals (formerly the Winter Event) will be launched at 1:00 PM Central, Monday, August 17th, 2006 at http://register.thecpl.com

More information on the 2006 World Season will be released soon.