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CPL Stadium?

Posted by Rob at 12:38 5/9/2002.

A crazy idea or a realistic prospect? Could tomorrow's cyber-athletes battle it out in great stadiums like the Old Traffords, Nou Camps and Rose Bowls across the word? That's the question tackled in this interesting interview on AVault, a gaming website owned by CPL Founder Angel Munoz.

Where did you first get the idea for creating a stadium for the CPL?

The idea first occurred to me when Gateway and the CPL partnered to host the "Gateway Country Challenge" in November of 2000. We jointly promoted the tournament as "the world's largest gaming tournament" because it was hosted at 320 Gateway Country Stores in North America. This gave the CPL an opportunity to determine its true reach into the gaming community by gauging the amount of people that would register for a CPL event that did not have the limitations of a relatively small venue. We had over 20,000 registrations and 10,000 participants, and almost two years later, that event still holds the record as the world's largest PC gaming tournament.

A month after that tournament, the Babbage's CPL Event attracted yet another 1,000 participants. With these two confirmations that the number of gamers interested in CPL tournaments was steadily increasing, I commenced to share with others our concept of building a gaming stadium. The project's name was "cyberstadium," but we changed that to simply "stadium" once we realized that another company had already registered the domain cyberstadium.com.

Of course it's Mr. Munoz who answers the several questions. It's definitely worth a read.