After an awesome stop in Dallas, USA and a cancelled stop in Liepzig, Germany many have been waiting for the next stop that will be held in Sheffield, UK. The time has come and this weekend the greatest players will fight for the honourable #1 spot. I have prepared everything for this stop and have written a feature with all the things you will need to know about the stop. We will ofcourse fill it with more information before and during the stop. I will be attending this World Tour stop as well and once again working with the tournament and CPL.

CPL WT UK Coverage

//dREk

The big Grand Final for IndiWEB PK Challenge has ended. The winner is SK|SteLam who did beat Dignitas/reptile in the Grand Final game. SK|SteLam has really dominated the IndiWEB PK Challenge tournament by winning two qualifiers and now winning the Grand Final and take home €700 euros. Dignitas/reptile lost against SK|SteLam in the WB final but won against 4K^Zaccabus in the Consolation final and could face SK|SteLam again. However, SteLam played well once again and managed to win.

Big thanks to IndiWEB for doing this tournament and credits to the admins who made it possible (Darthbane, Charly and Gurke).

After the big Grand Final for IndiWEB PK Challenge I decided to interview the winner SK|SteLam. Id like to state that this is just a short unprepared interview but hopefully it is a good read.

You can find that interview at http://www.team-dignitas.com/.

The 19th issue of Team Dignitas Painkiller Spotlight is out and this time the glory fell upon the new gamer talent Ztrider from Team Fnatic. He is definitely one of the best newcomers for gaming this year by having no previous “pro” history and improving his result as the time goes on with placements like 4th in CPL WT Brazil and Sweden and now recently a well respected 3rd place in CPL WT USA. This interview covers areas of how everything started for this great talent, his strengths and weaknesses, the road towards number 1 and of course WT 2006.

Here is a piece of the whole interview:

Team Dignitas:
Tell us a bit about your gaming career and how it all started and the story behind your choice of Painkiller as the game?

Fnatic/Ztrider:
Yep, next one 🙂

The whole Dignitas PK Spotlight interview could be found here.

If you have not read the other great painkiller spotlights go to www.team-dignitas.com and go to news archive and select Painkiller Spotlights and you will get all of them.

Enjoy!

//dREk

The details of the UK CPL World Tour stop were announced today. The event will take place over the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of September at the Magna Science Adventure Centre in Sheffield.

The landmark $1,000,000 CPL World Tour, which boasts the largest cash purse ever offered by a game tournament, is traveling several international cities and is expecting to bring together the worlds best competitive PC game players and computing enthusiasts at every stop. The official game of the World Tour is Painkiller.

The title sponsor of the tour is Intel, the worlds largest chip maker and a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communication products. Intel will be providing the microprocessors inside every gaming PC used at the UK CPL Word Tour stop.

The other main tour sponsors include NVIDIA, the worlds leader in graphics and digital media processors.

UK CPL World Tour Stop details:

The UK CPL World Tour stop will be offering a total prize fund of about $70,000.

$50,000 – Painkiller tournament

$10,000 – Counter Strike 1.6 tournament

$8,000 – Female Only Counter Strike 1.6 tournament

As well as the official tournaments, the event will also host a Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) LAN party at Magna Science Adventure Centre. Game Frontier (CPLs Strategic Partner) will arrange approximately 300 BYOC places, which will be open 24 hours from Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th September.

For more information visit http://www.gamefrontier.com

//dREk

border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/de.gif />dignitas/reptile has won The IndiWEB Painkiller Challenge #5 after defeating border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/de.gif /> SK|Stelam in the Final this afternoon. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/de.gif />dignitas/reptile picks up 100 euros for the win and heads the rankings in the overall tournament. The grand final will have around 1250 euros in price money and will soon be played after the last (6th) qualifier.

You could read a Post match interview with dignitas/reptile at team Dignitas site along with some other info regarding Indiweb PK Challenge.

//dREk

Team Dignitas has once again put some effort in doing a nice interview for the Painkiller audience. This is the first time there is a non-gamer being interviewed for the famous Painkiller Spotlight. The honourable person being chosen for this is no other than Liuokin from TsN – Team Sportcast Network. He is one of the World Tour 2005 shoutcasters and have done an amazing job during all the stops he attended. If you would like to know more about him, painkiller, the world tour and his thoughts regarding the job as a shoutcaster you should definitely read this interview.

Here is a snippet of the interview:
Team Dignitas:
What is the best thing about being a shoutcaster?

TsN|Liuokin:
We always strive to be professional, in both our video product and our audio. Its not easy going from a radio station to a media station like we have so there is bound to be problems along the way, but we always strive for improvement as you can see throughout the past few tour stops. As far as what we will improve on you will just have to tune in to the next tour stop! =)

The whole Dignitas PK Spotlight interview could be found here.

If you have not read the other great painkiller spotlights go to www.team-dignitas.com and go to news archive and select Painkiller Spotlights and you will get all of them.

Enjoy!

//dREk

After the CPL WT USA event I had the opportunity to interview the new gaming talent Dj from team check-six. Dj managed to place 9-12th in this tournament which is his best achievement so far. In this Painkiller Spotlight we talk about his progress, plans and his thoughts regarding the World Tour 2006.

Here is a snippet of the interview:

Team Dignitas:
You have improved since day 1 of the World Tour, you think you could improve even more?
And tell us about your goal with this World Tour?

check6\\dj:
I trust CPL has learned a lot from this first world tour and will definitely think twice about picking whichever game they choose. No matter what it is, I will try it. If I like it, I will balance school and gaming like I have been doing. If I don’t like it, I will instead try to concentrate on school for the year and get as far ahead as possible maybe even finish early, while i wait for the next big game. Personally, I hope the 1v1 game is quake 4. Even though I like 1v1 games better than team games, I will probably also give the Team game a try also.

The whole Dignitas PK Spotlight interview could be found here.

If you have not read the other great painkiller spotlights go to www.team-dignitas.com and go to news archive and select Painkiller Spotlights and you will get all of them.

Enjoy!

//dREk

Another painkiller interview has been made by dignitas and this time it was Deatz from check-six who was the lucky one to be interviewed. So far Dignitas have made 16 spotlight interviews and you can be sure that more interesting interviews are coming up. If you missed any of the previous interviews you could find them all under the painkiller spotlight archive on their site.

Here is a snippet of the interview:

Team Dignitas:
First of all, for how long have you been playing Painkiller?

x6|Deatz:
Like most of the events, Vo0, fatal1ty, Zyz :), but…maybe me this time ? 🙂 no just kidding :), ye I guess it will be like that.

The whole Dignitas PK Spotlight interview could be found here.

Here is the final results from CPL World Tour Sweden:

01. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/nl.gif /> Sander “Vo0” Kaasjager – $15,000
02. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/us.gif /> Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel – $10,000
03. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/de.gif /> Benjamin “zyz” Bohrmann – $7,000
04. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/se.gif /> Alex “Ztrider” Ingarv – $5,000
05. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/it.gif /> Alessandro “Stermy” Avallone – $3,500
06. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/ca.gif /> Andrew “gellehsak” Ryder – $2,500
07. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/ru.gif /> Alexey “LeXeR” Nesterov – $1,750
08. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/uk.gif /> David “Zaccubus” Treacy – $1,250
09-12. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/de.gif /> Christian “deatz” Dotzki – $625
09-12. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/de.gif /> Stephan “SteLam” Lammert – $625
09-12. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/us.gif /> Mark “Wombat” Larsen – $625
09-12. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/it.gif /> Nicola “ForresT” Geretti – $625
13-16. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/fi.gif /> Iisaki “Beam” Ahonen – $375
13-16. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/se.gif /> Fredrik “Aim” Edesater – $375
13-16. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/us.gif /> Sean “daler” Price – $375
13-16. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/se.gif /> Joakim “Radical” Malmquist – $375

Vo0 once again did a flawless tournament without a single loss and played really well. Fatal1ty also did show that he really is going for that number 1 spot. The biggest surprises is that Zaccabus played really well during the whole tournament, even took a map against Fatal1ty and ended at 8th place. Same with deatz who impressed many by beating Worre and Daler and played really good against Zyz (1-2 in maps) and Gellehsak (1-2 in maps).

//dREk – www.team-vip.se

Finally after some weeks of waiting the CPL WT Sweden page is up with some info regarding the event in Jönköping.

Here you could find information about how to travel to Dreamhack, register to participate in the event as well as the rules for the WT game Painkiller among other things. I believe this site will consist of more information the closer we get to the event.

CPL WT Sweden site: www.cplworldtour.se

//dREK – www.team-vip.se

The demos/replays from CPL WT Brazil has been uploaded by CPL. Seems like CPL have learned a lesson and surprised many by uploading the demos directly after the event was finished, good job CPL. There are plenty of good matches to see and learn from. Too bad that the demo playback is not perfect but hopefully they will fix that sometime in the future.

Here are some links to the Grand Final:

border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/nl.gif /> Sander “Vo0” Kaasjager vs border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/us.gif /> Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel

Map: Sacred x 5

_blank href=”http://demos.thecpl.com/World_Tour/Brazil/fnatic_Vo0-fatal1ty.DM_Sacred.28-05-05-17-38-47.zip”>Round 1

_blank href=”http://demos.thecpl.com/World_Tour/Brazil/fnatic_Vo0-fatal1ty.DM_Sacred.28-05-05-17-56-12.zip”>Round 2

_blank href=”http://demos.thecpl.com/World_Tour/Brazil/fnatic_Vo0-fatal1ty.DM_Sacred.28-05-05-18-12-48.zip”>Round 3

_blank href=”http://demos.thecpl.com/World_Tour/Brazil/fnatic_Vo0-fatal1ty.DM_Sacred.28-05-05-18-37-34.zip”>Round 4

_blank href=”http://demos.thecpl.com/World_Tour/Brazil/fnatic_Vo0-fatal1ty.DM_Sacred.28-05-05-18-53-42.zip”>Round 5

The rest of the demos you could find in the WT Brazil catalouge – _blank href=”http://demos.thecpl.com/World_Tour/Brazil/”>http://demos.thecpl.com/World_Tour/Brazil/

*UPDATE*
The files are now zipped..

Enjoy!

dREk – _blank href=”http://www.team-vip.se/”>www.team-vip.se

CPL WT Brazil has comed to an end and the winner of the tournament is Sander “vo0” Kaasjager from fnatic. Seemed like the whole event went pretty smoothly and there were some surprises in this tournament like Booms finishing top 8.

Here is the results from CPL WT border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/br.gif /> Brazil:

01. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/nl.gif /> Sander “Vo0” Kaasjager – $15,000
02. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/us.gif /> Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel – $10,000
03. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/de.gif /> Benjamin “zyz” Bohrmann – $7,000
04. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/se.gif /> Alex “Ztrider” Ingarv – $5,000
05. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/it.gif /> Alessandro “Stermy” Avallone – $3,500
06. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/de.gif /> Stephan “SteLam” Lammert – $2,500
07. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/ca.gif /> Andrew “gellehsak” Ryder – $1,750
08. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/it.gif /> Vincenzo “Booms” D Aurelio – $1,250
09-12. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/it.gif /> Nicola “ForresT” Geretti – $625
09-12. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/us.gif /> Sean “Daler” Price – $625
09-12. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/us.gif /> Mark “wombat” Larsen – $625
09-12. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/ru.gif /> Alexey “LeXeR” Nesterov – $625
13-16. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/se.gif /> Johan “sakh” Hessedahl – $375
13-16. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/se.gif /> Viktor “worre” Liljeblad – $375
13-16. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/uk.gif /> David “Zaccubus” Treacy – $375
13-16. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/it.gif /> Riccardo “Vicious” Zanocchio – $375

//dREk – _blank href=”http://www.team-vip.se”>www.team-vip.se

The Sweden World Tour Stop is scheduled to take place June 16-19, 2005 during (_blank href=”http://www.dreamhack.se”>DreamHack – the world’s largest computer festival – in Jönköping at the Elmia Exhibition Center (_blank href=”http://www.elmia.se”>www.elmia.se) .

Jönköping is one of the leading transport, logistics and communications centers in Europe and the Elmia Exhibition Center is internationally known for exhibitions and trade fairs. Jönköping also offers a wide variety of cultural venues, including theaters, museums, a large concert hall, art galleries and a range of other cultural attractions. Players who register for the official $50,000 Painkiller competition will get the opportunity to participate in a cultural tour of the city.

Attendees of this World Tour Stop can receive a discounted hotel rate of $80USD/night for a double room at one of two Scandia Hotel properties, the Scandia Elmia or the Scandia Portalen. Reservations must be made by phone, and attendees should use the keyword “DreamHack” to receive the discounted rate.

Competitors can register for this event for a $50 registration fee at _blank href=”http://www.thecpl.com/register/”>www.thecpl.com/register/.

Source: _blank href=”http://www.thecpl.com”>www.thecpl.com

//dREk – _blank href=”http://www.team-vip.se”>www.team-vip.se

The CPL announced that it has revised the sequence of its $1,000,000 World Tour Stops to accept an invitation to host the Swedish stop at the world’s largest computer festival: DreamHack. The Swedish World Tour stop, hosting a $50,000 one-versus-one Painkiller competition, will now take place June 16-19, 2005 in Jonkoping, Sweden at the Elmia Convention Center.

Over 5,000 gamers are expected to attend the DreamHack festival this year. The online registration for the Swedish stop will launch next week at the CPL’s registration website located at www.thecpl.com/register/. Furthermore, the stop in Germany has been moved to August and the stop in the United Kingdom to September.

For more info go to CPL`s Homepage at: www.thecpl.com

It`s only 1 day left to the CPL WT Spain event in Barcelona!
I therefore took the opportunity to feel the pulse on two gamers from the swedish bootcamp, Ztrider from e-star and Radical from team VIP.

Hopefully this could give you a hint of what their expectations are and how they feel in general for the event. Other than that some general and personal questions were asked as well..

The interviews could be find on www.team-vip.se.