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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. United States

Paul "czm" Nelson - $15,000
2. China

Fan "Hacker.RazerJ" Zhibo - $9,500
3. Russia

Anton "mouz.Cooller" Singov - $6,000
4. Sweden

Alexander "mouz.Z4muZ" Ihrfohrs - $3,500
5. United States

Vijal "viju" Patel - $2,500
6. Australia

Andrew "Python" ChaCha - $2,000
7. United States

Brian "ons\destrukt" Flander - $1,500
8. United States

Mark "ons\cl0ck" McGrail - $1,000
9-12. China

Meng "RocketBoy" Yang, Sean "ons\daler" Price, Shane "scar" Hendrixson, Turkey

Iskender "Raistlin" Ildiz - $750
13-16. United States

Rafik "EG.LoSt-CaUzE" Bryant, United States

Michael "bLT" Smith, United States

Dan "carnage" Sturdivant, United States

Chance "ons\chance" Lacina - $500

czm wins!

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. Sweden

Fnatic - $30,000 USD
2. Norway

Meet Your Makers - $21,000 USD
3. Poland

Pentagram - $14,000 USD
4. France

Against All Authority - $9,000 USD
5. China

Hacker.Gaming - $6,000 USD
6. South Korea

Project_kr - $5,000 USD
7. Finland

69�N-28�E - $3,000 USD
8. United States

Jax Money Crew - $2,000 USD
9-16. 3D, 4Kings, Check Six, rSports, SK.swe, MiBR, Pandemic, x3o - $1,250 USD

fnatic wins!

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.

User Comments

Wow check out that top8. All different flags, that really shows the countries are all pretty much on par with each other.

#Premier! Texas LAN team competing in CAL-Ripken

GJ to the guys from fnatic ! :D

little fragscene from me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2H7x4Upx1M

Good frickin tournament, loved watching it.

Good tournament, especially the Q3 finals.

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i want to see the videoooooooooos
it will have or not?

congratz 4 fnatic. this is actually the best cs clan in the world. nice event. bo3 good system.
imo dsn carn neo nice event.

Nicely done fnatic, I was expecting a lot more resistance from MYM, since I know Norway has a lot of talent, but then again, MYM had a fairly easy way to the finals, comparing to fnatic's coL, 3D, pentagram and many more matches.

Once again, nice job. Also extra credits to Gotfrag's Livestream, albeit it failed a few times, it was definitely the best stream I've ever witnessed, and not even compareable to the horrid WCG livestream.

FNATIC I LOVE

Great event

and i loved gftv.. keep it up

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#1 is right. What an original top8 for Counter-Strike! It was a great event. Congratz to fnatic, they deserved it. And I also would have to add some special cheers for aAa, it was amazing.

I really liked GotFrag TV, keep the good job up guys!

GJ fnatic!

well done Hacker.gm:)

TEnder surrender

aAa was the surprise of the tournament without a doubt, the French teams always put up a fight but that was truly impressive - honorable mention to MiBR looking pretty bad. congrats to fnatic for finally securing that elusive major win; they'd have quite a run this year.

congrats to fnatic and czm...was great to see czm again and happy to see fnatic finally win a big event :]

mARci`

fnatic dominateddd

GJ fnatic, new this was going to be your tourney from the beginning!

[O]ld [S]chool [G]amer's #OSG

gj fnatic bringing home Swedens 7th cpl gold!

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Really good cpl, damn nice that fnatic won out of the swedish teams.

As i predicted even before the start of CPL, fnatic would take it. And they did. [b]Great[/b] job guys! After all these steady finishes in TOP4 almost at every major tournament fnatic attended, this CPL win was well [u]deserved[/u]! Despite much harder path to the Finals, than the one of MYM, you guys still did it! =)

Special "Thank you!" guys to Got?Frag and its staff. You guys did truly impressive job on the coverage of the event; both Counter Strike and Quake 3. LIVE streaming was just amazing to watch! Loved it! Keep up the great job!

A there is a little mistake in the last paragraph: "These two asian powerhouses round out the 4th and 5th place finishes respectively". It's suppose to be 5th and 6th place finished for Hacker.gm and Project_kr. Not 4th and 5th.

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FNATICCCCCCCCC!!!!!!!

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fnatic <3

wd python

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wtf double post

This comment was edited at 12/20/2006 7:09 PM

WOW !!! Congratulations fnatic, you deserved it entirely ! Keep up with the good work.

Hope to see some POV demos from this tournament.

OMG czm wins, he was my prediction. I wanna see him play, that guys a stud man, go american dude! WOoO much love to Paul Nelson. MAKE A MOVIE PAUL!!!!!!! I WANNA SEE THAT TRASH MAN!

"Tomorrow just isnt what it used to be."

gz czm

Congrats to fnatic for finally pulling out that elusive vicotry at a tournament, and it doesn't get any bigger than winning CPL. Honorable mention to mYm for having a great run, not the best finals but an amazing tournament overall.

Gotfrag? News Writer - #gotfrag

predictable outcomes :)

(�`�. we trade liquor for blood .��)

really awesome watching czm play :)

gj fnatic and czm did great, to bad US only had 1 cs team (8th place JMC) <3~~

#SurPass

only 1 US team in the top 8, sad.

Theres only what 3-4 US teams in top 16? I feel a change coming in complexitys lineup. 1's speech was inspiring , "gotta play for passion not the paycheck".

CPL was great, gj fnatic!

very great job fnatic

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czm was just crazy I didn't know aiming while keeping such a smooth movement was possible...

Life is what you make of it. Dreams are what you live for.

powerful norwegian team mYm ! :D

great tournament

Iskender FTW!

Always right.

sweet fnatic GL

fnatic w00t

#SOTF

Jason will be very dissapointed with how coL have been playing recently, but WHO CARES.. fnatic are easily the best in the world atm.

Ok, aAa really surprised me. Grats to Inari as well.. Seems that you can really lose track on the scene if you stop following actively for a couple of months :p

But it's my only line!

"These two asian powerhouses round out the 4th and 5th place finishes respectively." 5th and 6th actually

Finally Fnatic had done it, now I can download their demos being sure they are the best :D Fnatic rocks in nuke cuz f0rest has pistol-genetic aim!

coL :/ WHAT HAPPENED THEY DIDNT EVEN PLACE

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