I am live here in New York where registration for the World Tour Finals has just begun. In about one hour the players will square off for their chance at the $150,000 grand prize to be awarded to the player crowned the grand champion of the World Tour in PainKiller. After a year of exciting Painkiller competition, the finals are here at last. The last stop of the World Tour in Chile saw a shakeup in the rankings as neither Voo nor Fatal1ty were in the finals. This comes at a great time to make the finals that much more interesting. Before CPL Chile it looked to be a two horse show as to who would win the $150,000 grand prize this weekend in New York. It still may be Voo or Fatal1ty but now we have the possibility of a couple of players giving a strong run at winning the whole thing. One thing is for sure, this weekend will see the crowning of World Tour Champion and the largest cash prize given to an individual since the inception of Professional Gaming. Whether you are a fan of PainKiller or not you can not deny the history in the making in New York this weekend. This is a huge step for eSports with such large purse on the line.

After the last stop the question becomes who will win? The clear favorite has to be Vo0. Fatal1ty has had a strong showing in the world tour thus far and can not be counted out. A few weeks ago in Chile we saw only Gellahsack and Ztrider step it up and get to the finals where Ztrider came out victorious. The waters have been muddied, it will most likely be one of the four players mentioned, but when this much money is on the line look for anyone of the 32 contestants to step up their game and come out on top. We will finally have our answer this Tuesday.

Stay tuned to GotFrag, Official Media Partner of The CPL, for all the scores and updates from the CPL World Tour Finals in

Full tournament brackets can also be viewed here.

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Select games can be watched on MTV Overdrive

We are now up to the semi finals which will be played right now. A couple more lower bracket rounds will be played today before the day ends. Only 8 players will remain come tomorrow.

CPL World Tour 2005 Finals Lower Round 5

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Alexander "fnatic...	1	1	-	2
Nicola "Forrest" ...	-	-	-	-
(38-9; 26-12)

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Vincenzo "booms" ...	-	1	1	2
Mark "wombat" Larsen	1	-	-	1
(23-24; 29-10; 20-17)

CPL World Tour 2005 Finals Lower Round 4

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Nicola "Forrest" ...	1	-	1	2
Brian "Zen" Grapatin	-	1	-	1
(10-8; 13-17; 31-8)

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Alexander "fnatic...	1	1	-	2
Carlos "dj" Cid	-	-	-	-
(24-21; 35-21)

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Vincenzo "booms" ...	1	1	-	2
Andrew "EG\|gelleh...	-	-	-	-
(25-13; 27-17)

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Mark "wombat" Larsen	1	-	1	2
Stephan "SteLam" ...	-	1	-	1
(18-15; 21-24; 10-9)

CPL World Tour 2005 Finals Upper Semi Finals

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Sander "Vo0" Kaas...	1	1	-	2
Alessandro "Sterm...	-	-	-	-
(19-12;31-29)

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Johnathan "Fatal1...	1	1	-	2
Benjamin "zyz" Bo...	-	-	-	-
(14-10; 20-10)

CPL World Tour 2005 Finals Lower Round 3

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Brian "Zen" Grapatin	1	1	-	2
Gareth "GaRpY" Ma...	-	-	-	-
(14-10; 20-13)

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Carlos "dj" Cid	-	1	1	2
Jared "cha0ticz" ...	1	-	-	1
(16-32; 26-14; 26-17)

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Vincenzo "booms" ...	1	1	-	2
Alexey "LeXeR" Ne...	-	-	-	-
(23-13; 32-5)

Final Score	1H	2H	OT	F
Stephan "SteLam" ...	1	1	-	2
Sean "ons\daler" ...	-	-	-	-
(28-20;21-19)

Upper Quarterfinals and Lower Round 2 can be found on the next page.

User Comments

INTRESTING

GO fatal1ty!! I wanna see a daler fatal1ty final even tho its highly likely voo will be in finals again.

This comment was edited at 11/20/2005 3:33 AM

go go rat!!

Can't wait. Go vo0!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pivOjDFXva..

looks like a daler v. fat possibility in 2nd round ..

... ...

damn that is an insane amount of money...whoever wins this has had a good year, haha.

Yeah alittle too much money! I want my andy to win! :P

i had no idea it began today :O

Waaaay to much money, could of been split up differently but hey whatever works.

#zeilSQUAD

let's go voo! :)

vo0 vs fat in finals, will be fun to watch

Go go go, vo0! It's time to show 'em who's the hero! (again :))

go vo0 :O~!

i think there won't be a voo vs fat final :P

Should be a great event, esp with so much money on the line. I expect to see voO and Fatal1ty in the finals tho.

lol what do you mean too much money? The more money the mroe press coverage this is gonna get, which is always good.

Anyways, GL fat!

Seems MTV Overdrive doesn't stream yet?

it streams, http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?name=games im watching it right now.

there's no feed up. it keeps going to that "it will be on at 10am" screen

BiGGiENiGGiE

It works for me, make sure you are using INTERNET EXPLORER.

FIREFOX will NOT work.

voo>mojo 56-0, 60-2 LOL

Do it Fatal1ty!!!!

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

steLam lost? w00t!

www.sk-gaming.com/member/boddie

You need the latest Media Player to watch the stream - after an update, it works fine for me. :)

Vo0 and zyz did a great job! :)
SteLam maybe was "out of sync" :-D

Hmmmm ... stream is not very stable in europe (one image every second :( ) ... what about tsn streaming also ???

Don't know - worked great for the first match, but stermy - lexer is unwatchable. Hope they fix it for the final.

This comment was edited at 11/20/2005 12:29 PM

Nice scores so far, nice job just now to stermy too!

Lets go Gellehsak!!

#21 lol

thx bro, ill say hi to you when im on mtv
PEACE

www.valianes.com - www.teamexcello.com

Go Go Sakattack!

The stream sucks... was way better on the TSN :-/

stream is really clear for me, but I live in the US.

well i live in europe and it's not buffered at all yet...

oh and btw, i'm watching it on linux :D

fat > zyz.

looked like zyz was gonna take it on the first map for a while.

stelam vs wombat was such a good game!

-22mc

nice job wombat way to hold out that last map

gelleshak gone, that is fast. Some of the small earners will take home a lot of money after all

http://www.zeldatwilightprincess.be -> everything about Zelda Twiligt princess Game

yeah which is gay in my opinion.

$150,000 for 1st place winner? woah

*sigh* cs tournaments, win $50,000 max between 5 ppl, and 1 person in pk wins $150,000 when cs is the more popular and more tactical game. Im SOOOOOOOOO glad thats gonna change next year... anyway gl hf

This comment was edited at 11/20/2005 6:33 PM

http://www.gamerthon.com - http://www.anexias.net/ - http://www.anythinginteractive.com

cs more tactical than ANY duel game? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

#40: it's so populare that it starts to bore more and more ppl. and about tactics: everything else than playing random is bad in every game ;)

stelam - wombat was a very exciting game, too bad stelam didn't make it :(
ztrider was really hot in the last game - poor forrest

for tomorrow: i wanna see an upper bracket winner vo0 and a consolation final ztrider - fat :)

#40 are you actually complaining about giving alot of money to the winners of this tournament? cause im pretty sure you are. Its great that they are giving out alot of money for this tournament, the more money they give, the more coverage esports in general get, it really doesent matter what game.

i had never really seen or watched PK...sry but im a 1.6er and didnt really care for it.

after some of the cpl coverage live it looked really fast-paced and intense :O

#ricochet

hmmm.. i do think cs players should get the same tbh..
dont get what ppl like about painkiller anyways, played the demo.. thought it was nothing special.. but oh well.

This comment was edited at 11/22/2005 12:40 PM

About time I changed this.

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