Dallas, TX (GotFrag) - The Cyberathlete Professional League Winter 2006 Event has come to a close, seeing many legendary matches such as Team 3D vs compLexity going into triple overtime and the always amazing Paul "czm" Nelson vs Anton "mouz.Cooller" Singov. Below are the results for each of the two games.

CPL 2006 Final Standings - Quake 3

1. Paul "czm" Nelson - $15,000
2. Fan "Hacker.RazerJ" Zhibo - $9,500
3. Anton "mouz.Cooller" Singov - $6,000
4. Alexander "mouz.Z4muZ" Ihrfohrs - $3,500
5. Vijal "viju" Patel - $2,500
6. Andrew "Python" ChaCha - $2,000
7. Brian "ons\destrukt" Flander - $1,500
8. Mark "ons\cl0ck" McGrail - $1,000
9-12. Meng "RocketBoy" Yang, Sean "ons\daler" Price, Shane "scar" Hendrixson, Iskender "Raistlin" Ildiz - $750
13-16. Rafik "EG.LoSt-CaUzE" Bryant, Michael "bLT" Smith, Dan "carnage" Sturdivant, Chance "ons\chance" Lacina - $500

Legendary clan Kapitol starter Paul "czm" Nelson won the Quake 3 event after three maps in the final over Fan "Jibo" Zhibo. Like the same match-up in the upper bracket finals, Zhibo was only able to take his home map of ztn3tourney1 over Nelson, while Nelson won convincingly on hub3aeroq3 and dm6. Nelson's closest match of the event came against Anton "Cooller" Singov, the man who defeated Nelson at the last major Quake 3 international event of ESWC 2005. Nelson was down 13-2 in the third map of the series and was able to make one of the best comebacks in Quake 3 tournament history to win the map and head into the final. Sweden's Alexander "Z4muZ" Ihrfohrs placed a very respectable fourth, but was disappointed with his passiveness in his loss to Singov. Renowned Q3CTF'er Vijal "viju" Patel, GotFrag.com's dark horse pick of the event, placed second best of all Americans who attended the event, defeating Andrew "Python" ChaCha and Brian "destrukt" Flander along the way.

CPL 2006 Final Standings - Counterstrike

1. Fnatic - $30,000 USD
2. Meet Your Makers - $21,000 USD
3. Pentagram - $14,000 USD
4. Against All Authority - $9,000 USD
5. Hacker.Gaming - $6,000 USD
6. Project_kr - $5,000 USD
7. 69°N-28°E - $3,000 USD
8. Jax Money Crew - $2,000 USD
9-16. 3D, 4Kings, Check Six, rSports, SK.swe, MiBR, Pandemic, x3o - $1,250 USD

Fnatic played extremely well the entire tournament, and capped things off with a dominating performance over mYm in the Grand Final to win the CPL Championship 2006. Pentagram improved upon their disappointing WSVG Finals performance with a 3rd place finish here, while aAa surprised quite a few people by defeating Hacker and placing 4th.

Hacker made some noise with their victory over 3D, while Project also brought an end to the tournament for SK in the first round. These two Asian powerhouses round out the 5th and 6th place finishes respectively. Jax Money Crew was looking to further improve upon their 3rd place finish at the CPL a year ago, but fell short despite dominating MiBR in the first round of bracket play. The team settled for 8th place. Other notable teams that made it past group play to finish in the money were 3D, SK, Pandemic, and MiBR.