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CPL Update

Posted by robe at 19:49 20/6/2002.

• The CPL Summer Championship Event has been renamed to the "Pentium 4 Summer Championship 2002" to emphasize that Intel Corporation is now the leading sponsor. This five-day event will take place at the Hyatt Regency Dallas hotel from Saturday July 20 to Wednesday July 24 2002 and has over 3,100 people registered from 67 countries. For full info, check out this news post.

• Competitors can now include their nicknames following their last names, but only by using this exact format:

  [TAG]LASTNAME< nick >
  i.e.
  [CPL]Fontenot< Que_Solo >

• The CPL has re-opened its registration for Counter-Strike teams that already have confirmed registrations for the $100,000 Counter-Strike Tournament and teams that have obtained an autoberth via a certified qualifying regional event.

  The CPL is not accepting new registrations for the following categories: BYOC, attendee, competitor or volunteer. Only the media category is open for registration. For more detailed information see The CPL website.

• The just released July 2002 issue of US Maxim magazine (Shakira cover) has a short article about the CPL on page 86 called "Field of Screens."

  "The CPL already hosts several professional gaming tournaments around the world, pitting top gamers against each other in front of rapt live audiences. Now they want to bring that excitement to TV [...] Our goal is to have a weekly program that would cover the online amateur league, qualifying matches, and finally the world championship, says the 42-year-old Munoz."