Shortly after the confirmed cancellation of the WT stop in China, the CPL have just announced that the replacement stop will take place in Singapore.
“The Singapore World Tour stop will take place Thursday, October 13 through Sunday, October 16 at The Pandang located at the heart of Singapore
More information on the new CPL World Tour stop in Singapore will be released in the next few days. ”
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After the Germany stop was cancelled, the new CPL WORLD TOUR event wil take place October, 21st to 23rd, at the Smau 2005.
more news on www.thecpl.com
The BBC has published an article following this weekend’s CPL World Tour stop in the UK:
“One of Britain’s top pro-gamers got his best ever result in the UK leg of a lucrative globe-trotting tournament.
David Treacy, aka Zaccubus, came in fourth in the CPL World Tour event and took home a $5,000 (£2,705) prize.
The year long Cyberathlete Professional League’s World Tour stages tournaments in eight countries in which pro-gamers compete for part of a $1m prize pot…
But the UK event was marred by attempts by malicious hackers to crash servers providing online coverage.”
You can read the full article here.
Yesterday it was announced that the Ministry of Culture (which is responsible for overseeing all video games sold in China) banned Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Painkiller and has ordered MMORPG developer Object Software to remove its Player vs Player system which rewards players for killing other players.
At the time we launched the World Tour, Painkiller was the best choice. Even the players themselves have stated that while the game lacks in several areas, it is fun to watch in a live environment and the competitions can be intense to the last minute.
The games we select for next year will be the ones that the community of gamers want to play, our sponsors want to sponsor and CPL wants to support. We just have to do a better job in selecting countries that embrace computer gaming for its positive aspects and support our competitions.
The CPL has always had the strictest standards when it comes to M-rated games and we feel that making these tournaments available only to participants that are 17 or above and is a great way to curb the general concerns about violence and gaming.
You can catch the feedback from the CPL here, and you can read Angel Munoz