Over on the CPLs website ( www.thecpl.com ), it has been announced that CPL Germany has been cancelled.

The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) announced today that after careful consideration and extended discussions with its strategic partners and sponsors it has canceled the German World Tour stop.
The CPL partners encountered critical logistical challenges with the proposed venue, and with the use of Painkiller (a Mature-rated game) in Germany.

The CPL is in negotiations for a new stop in Europe that would take place after the United Kingdom stop, and before the end of the year.

Competitors that had confirmed air travel for Germany and need special assistance should contact Scott Valencia immediately via email. More information about the new World Tour stop will be available at a later date.

The CPL World Tour, the largest, first-ever, year-long competitive tour spotlighting the growing new sport of video game competitions, is primarily sponsored by Intel. Another leading sponsor of the World Tour is NVIDIA.

You can find the news post here: http://www.thecpl.com/league/?s=news&p=newsitem_844

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

The Team Sportscast Network is proud to announce the release of their first wave in a long series of videos that recap the Cyberathlete Professional League’s 2005 Extreme Summer Championships that took place in Dallas, Texas. Relive some of the best moments from the event as TsN takes you on a video roller coaster featuring such great hits as: “The finals for CS:S, CS 1.6 and Painkiller”, “The sponsor booth tours”, “The dead air stare”, “The elevator of Azeroth”, and more!

The Downloads tab on the TsN web site also marks the return of TsN’s Content on Demand system which will allow visitors the ability to watch pre-recorded video coverage and listen to audio commentary from past matches and events.

The Team Sportscast Network would like to thank Intel, NVIDIA, and Insomnia 365 for their continued support of competitive gaming and for assisting TsN’s efforts to bring the most complete gaming experience to gamers all around the world. TsN would also like to extend its gratitude to TypeFrag and Art of War Central for their ongoing commitment to the success of TsN and the CPL.

About TsN

The Team Sportscast Network, L.L.C., is an online broadcast and media organization. Since its inception in 1999, TsN has pioneered the use of online media to deliver programming specifically targeted at the competitive gaming community. Utilizing both video and audio, TsN continues to lead the market through technical innovation and unparalleled quality.

For More Information

http://www.tsncentral.com/downloads
http://worldtour.tsncentral.com
http://www.thecpl.com

Contact
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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

Tonight saw Fatal1ty winning the CPL WT USA stop after beating Vo0 twice on Sacred (12-11;26-16). Although Vo0 had a strong start on Sacred, the first game was very close with both players having the lead at various times, resulting in a one frag win for Fatal1ty. On the second map, Fatal1ty went on to push ahead 22-0 at one time, with Vo0 making a partial comeback.

Fatal1ty is only the second player to beat Vo0 and win a CPL event; SteLam having previously won at CPL Spain.

Here are the final results from CPL World Tour USA:

01. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/us.gif /> Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel – $15,000
02. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/nl.gif /> Sander “Vo0” Kaasjager – $10,000
03. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/se.gif /> Alex “Ztrider” Ingarv – $7,000
04. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/de.gif /> Benjamin “zyz” Bohrmann – $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/us.gif /> Mark “Wombat” Larsen – $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/uk.gif /> David “Zaccubus” Treacy – $1,250

Kudos to TsN who provided excellent coverage of the event.