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Counter-Strike: CPL announces 2006 World Season

By: Philip - Published July 31, 2006 at 9:49 PM EDT - Writer Archive
The Cyberathlete Professional League has released details of their 2006 World Season.
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.

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amazing, just amazing!
"Wake up and Live"
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china!!!!!!!!!!
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WELCOME BACK CPL!
#.eP :: extreme Perfection :: cal-main ::
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i approve
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gonna be a good season
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Good step for gaming!
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chile ^_^
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sounds good.
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NO CANADA WTF

i have a feeling sweden will be #1 in everything this year lol
;o
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Didn't Rocketboy say in some interview about the CPL's switch from Q4 that Q3 was banned in China? Are they just not going to have Q3 at that event if it is?
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sweet, will be great to have in Aus
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FUN!
can't remember my old log in :(
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sounds good!
#3dn
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You sound suprised #9.. ;)
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GotFragTV debuts with CPL's World Season?
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Give England another chance.. come on

I've said for so long 2007 will be our year to win ;)
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w00t
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Sounds good!
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Another CPL Chile, Yeah
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can you still just sign up for CPL winter?
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wow... they have more events in the last quarter of the year than WSVG did in all of it.
Marky "atdt" Ochoa, Head of World of Warcraft, Fnatic.com
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Yes, Winter will still be open registration.
CPL Tournament Manager - St. Louis, Missouri

well i thought cpl was dead... good news for gaming. cpl is the grand stage for gaming of all time!
cpl >eswc
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better have hltv..
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This will be great :D
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wheres Canada !
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still tfts

so FU cpl
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so many LAN events in China now. crazy!

Aug 4-6: WEF
Aug 4-6: WCG China
Sept 17-18: KODE5 China
Sept 22: IEF China vs. Korea finals
Sept 22-24: WSVG China
Oct 28-29: CPL China
and 3 CEG tour stops.
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do players have to qualify to attend the Winter Finals?
it's sounds like they don't since it says registration for winter finals is really soon!!
GIRLZ 0f destruction: www.girlzdestruct.com
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Nope said a few comments back winter will still be open registration.
CPL Tournament Manager - St. Louis, Missouri
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cpl is back
<3 Heaton <3 Neo <3 roman <3 paN <3 f0rest <3 zonic <3 cyx <3 solo <3 walle <3 hero
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No canada.... again.....
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...... cpl needs to show some respect for canada or something, well not respect but they gotta give us a chance or something.. like jesus its so hard for small canadian teams to attend these CPL's they cost so much.. or atleast put one in ny so its a bit closer.. jesus

This comment was edited at 08/01/2006 2:35 AM
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nice, 150k, like the cpl world tour last year in NY
oceanlol: You know you're the best country when you are compared to continents
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no netherlands =[
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The netherlands sucks, that's the truth, but one day they'll conquer the world:D
zuaNx`pLus!
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#10 i have a feeling it won't happen like it never did lol

actually, it's too late anyway. weg: wnv/china. eswc: mibr/brazil. isc: col/usa. no glory for sweden so far :,(
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yay australia. ^.^
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I hope more topteams to come to Brazil this time.
:)
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yay nice ;D :D :
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awesome
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bout time there was something international in australia ._.
You'll Never Walk Alone
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#38

the year is far from over.
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go mr9!
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looks good hope it works out :D
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for all the people who are complaing there isn't a canadian stop, it's because the qualifiers for North America are being done by CAL online. Angel cleared it all up on the ESR News post comments.
http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=11586..

Here's the post in it's entirety for those who are too lazy to click the link
"Sorry if the wording did not make sense. I wrote it on a plane ride and should have added a few more details. Here's the scoop:

The season opens with qualifiers for USA and Canada residents hosted online at CAL on September 1st.

Countries like Brazil, Korea, Nordic Europe and China will be announcing a series of live qualifiers leading to their own National Finals. So most of the National Finals have a series of supporting events. Winner of the National Finals receive cash prizes, travel to the finals and a berth at the tournament finals.

This is not a Tour where the same players are expected to travel to the different events. Instead the top teams and players can chose which events they want to participate in.

The CPL Championship Finals (Winter Event) will allow open registration of competitors that have not qualified through the series, as has been our tradition for the past 9 years. We have also secured special hotel, car rental and airfare discounts for all participants of the Finals, to be announced soon.

The online registration for Winter will open on the 17th as not to conflict with the registration of CPL Singapore that opened today."
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150 000 $ !! WOW..

Only 1 question from me, cpl winter = cpl world tour final event?

This comment was edited at 08/01/2006 10:33 AM
#teatime.no
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CPL sweden will be huge as it's cheap to all european clans because nits not in 3rd world countryand also the last chance to get spot to finals
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