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

DM_Blink Painkiller 1v1 Map

Author: Tectonic

Contact:

E-mail Tectonic at rbs266@umr.edu

Installation:

Extract to ../painkiller/data/

DM_Blink Version History
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Version: 0.76 (7/26/2005)

Updates:

-Large rocket packs exchanged for small rocket packs

That’s it haha. I’ve been working on art, but I’m not going to include art in a public release until the map is done. So for now, you get the ugly version . I have no plans to change any gameplay elements on the map at this point. This is finalized gameplay unless something huge comes up, which I do not forsee. Hope you like it!

If anyone wants to post in support of the map being used on the World Tour, please email CPL|Justin at justin.blanchard@thecpl.com

Feel free to post your thoughts about the map here or on Vicious’ thread at: http://forums.thecpl.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=30;t=000290

http://tectonic.wgohosting.com/downloads/DM_Blink.zip

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