The stop was relocated due to China banning the World Tour’s 2005 game Painkiller. Singapore, the replacement stop, has long been a hub for gaming in Asia with the WCG finals being held here in the past and this coming November.

This stop starts a three week blitz of World Tour stops as the last few players who need to qualify attempt to do so and those who have already qualified jockey for higher seeds. CPL Milan, the replacement for a cancelled CPL Germany, is the following weekend (20th to the 23rd) and the final WT stop in Chile is at the end of October from the 28th to the 30th.

This fast paced schedule will be hard on the players, but should open up opportunities to players lower on the totem pole due to the strenuous traveling required to attend all three stops. While not much is known about the Singapore WT stop, the CPL plans on releasing more details shortly.

Current CPL WT rankings:

295 Sander Kaasjager (fnatic.Vo0)
260 Johnathan Wendel (Fatal1ty)
243 Benjamin Bohrmann (SK|zyz)
218 Alessandro Avallone (Stermy)
194 Stephan Lammert (SK|SteLam)
190 Alexander Ingarv (Ztrider)
173 Andrew Ryder (Gellehsak)
160 David Treacy (zaccubus)
150 Nicola Geretti (forrest)
142 Sean Price (daler)
139 Alexey Nesterov (LeXeR)
139 Mark Larsen (wombat)
120 Fredrik Edesater (Aim)
113 Vincenzo Daurelio (play.it*booms)
102 Viktor Liljeblad (d.worre)
87 Brian Grapatin (nts`zen)
84 Carlos Cid (dj)
81 Riccardo Zanocchio (play.it*vicious)
78 Christian Dotzki (deatz)
58 Niels Van Tilborg (zhrance)*

* not qualified for the WT Finals

Qualified but not in the Top 20
56 Deniz Kalkmann (reptile)
53 Antti Tolvanen (FC-Gaming Rat)
52 Christian Lains (CLains)
31 Joakim Malmquist (Radical)

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