NVIDIA to sponsor the WT

From The CPL:

NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors, and the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL), today announced that NVIDIA has signed on as a presenting sponsor of the $1,000,000 CPL World Tour™. The landmark tour, which boasts the largest cash purse ever offered by a game tournament, will travel to ten international cities and is expected to bring together the world’s best competitive PC game players and computing enthusiasts at every stop.

The $1,000,000 CPL World Tour will commence on February 10th in Istanbul, Turkey, and will travel to major cities in Europe, Asia, South America and North America throughout the year.

“This sponsorship is a great fit for both CPL and NVIDIA as it allows NVIDIA to publicly show its support for the PC gaming community and those gamers that demonstrate excellence in play,” said David Roman, vice president of corporate marketing at NVIDIA. “Participating in the CPL World Tour complements NVIDIA’s ongoing grass roots marketing efforts and gives us an opportunity to reach out to a large and diverse global audience of gamers who seek the highest performance technologies. We applaud the CPL’s endeavors to promote the sport of competitive gaming in an entertaining and high-profile way.”

As a presenting sponsor, NVIDIA will host on-site exhibits at each of the ten tour stops, as well as equip the tournament PCs deployed at each tour stop with its award-winning GeForce™ 6800 model graphics processing units (GPUs). The selection of NVIDIA® GPUs will deliver to players competing in the headline Painkiller competition the distinct technology advantage of blazing fast frame rates and crisp visuals necessary for extreme levels of play.

NVIDIA is also contributing funds to the “unofficial” competitions based on other popular PC games, including Day of Defeat and Warcraft 3, at select tour stops.

Gamers across the globe will have an opportunity to follow the action via radio broadcasts hosted by the Team Sportscast Network (TSN). Also sponsored by NVIDIA for the CPL World Tour, TSN plans to broadcast live, play-by-play coverage of all the major competitions from each stop on the CPL World Tour from the Website, located at worldtour.tsncentral.com.

“NVIDIA has been a wonderful partner of the CPL and its continued support has elevated game tournaments to a new level,” said Angel Munoz, founder and president of the CPL. “CPL competitors demand the highest performing hardware and NVIDIA has consistently delivered. We look forward to building on this relationship with the commencement of the World Tour.”

For more information about the $1,000,000 CPL World Tour, including a complete list of tour stops, please visit www.cplworldtour.com.

To lan or not to lan

Well my pc blew up so i have been offline for a month, thinking i had lost lots of practise time.

Turns out pcf like me and released a new patch that changes everything! woohoo!

Ok so this patch, supposedly, rocks on lan, which benefits about 5 of us. The problem is, do we wanna see the same guy winning every WT stop? (soz voo i love u, but not that much). When you go to a lan, the one thing that every player wants is for the setup to be just like home. WIth the way 1.61 sets you up at home, i would think everyone would like a different set up on LAN. What does this lead to?

It leads to all ,but the top 2 or 3 who can afford to Lan, having an alien set up at lan, which isnt a good thing.
Atm online practise is USELESS. Half the time your gun doesnt even fire, its ridiculous. The sg doesnt register, so you nme is running around at 30u and you are getting dizzy (also due to the rl not having directional splash aswell…LOL).

Oh and the sounds…they confuse me more than pcf.

Team Dignitas announce 2nd cup!

sorry fenuz beat you to it. All info taken from:
http://www.team-dignitas.com/news.php?newsid=944
check link for more indepth news.
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Welcome to the Team Dignitas Painkiller Cup #2

The Tournament will commence on Monday 21th February 2005 (19.00-23.00cet) until Tuesday 22th February 2005 (20-23.00cet) and will invite 16 top Painkiller players to compete. The version of Painkiller that will be used in this cup will be 1.61.

Rules

– 1on1 Deathmatch
– Gamemode is best of three (first round only one map – DM_Sacred)
– Roundtime: 15 minutes
– Single Elimination
– third map will be the map which wasnt chosen by the two players
– if both players choose the same map, the third map will be the same
– all players have to join #dignitas.cup at irc.quakenet

Map pool:

– DM_Sacred
– DM_Psycho
– DM_Absinthe

The Invites and Seeds:

#1 fnatic.Vo0
#2 SK|zyz
#3 stermy*play.uts
#4 SK|SteLam
#5 fnatic.gellehsak
#6 estar*Ztrider
#7 forrest*play.uts
#8 gmeX-CLains
#9 x6-deatz
#10 A+R|dav
#11 SK|fazz
#12 d`dk
#13 fnatic.gopher
#14 d`canna
#15 [64AMD]drdoom
#16 aT|Spawniikv

The Admins:

1. d`Hamster (Head Admin)
2. rushed|affentod
3. d`bullovic
4. d`RaideN

The Team Dignitas Painkiller Cup #2 is officially approved by the CPL.

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d`Hamster informs me there will be some big news released just before the cup involving a big name so check #dignitas.cup for all the latest updates.