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.

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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.

Over at www.thecpl.com , we see what is in store for us this coming week at CPL Dallas:

Dallas, TX, July 03, 2005 –(PR.COM)– Serendipitous Films has chosen the US stop of the Cyberathlete® Professional League (CPL) World Tour to premier the first trailer of their latest feature, Bloodlines. Beginning on July 6th, the event will take place at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine, Texas. The Bloodlines trailer premier is scheduled at 8:30pm on Friday, July 8th, at the main CPL Summer Event stage hosted by Intel.
Filmed in Fort Worth, Frisco, and Dallas, Texas, Bloodlines stars Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba, Young Guns, Courage Under Fire), Yancy Butler (Witchblade, Drop Zone), Tom Wright (Barbershop 1 and 2, Murder at 1600), Glenn Morshower (24, CSI, Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor), Jeff Speakman (The Perfect Weapon, The Gunman), and Dallas newcomer Troy Baker. The film also marks the acting debut for Angel Munoz, president of the CPL, who was cast as the Latin American corporate president taken hostage.

Inspired by the world of cyber-warfare, the Bloodlines plot involves a next-generation weaponry manufacturer. “There is no better place to premier the first trailer – the CPL and the gaming community served as an inspiration while developing the concept for this film,” states Writer/Director Daniel Millican. Producer Jeff Rodgers adds, “This is a match made in heaven for the CPL and Serendipitous Films. The 2004 Summer Event was unprecedented, and this year’s will be even greater.”

The Bloodlines trailer premier should have quite an audience – online tickets to the Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships have already sold out. A total of 7,300 gamers from 60 different countries registered online for the five-day CPL World Tour event, which will take place July 6th through July 10th in Grapevine, Texas.

For information regarding Bloodlines and Serendipitous Films vist www.s-films.com.

You can find the original here : http://www.thecpl.com/league/?s=news&p=newsarchive_20050701

I noticed this over on the PCF website, which has always had very little content other than the usual self-congratulating platitudes. We find a news post called Its been a while, so its high time for some news. which is the most communication weve seen from the company for a long while. You can find the post here.

Now that Painkiller expansion pack, Painkiller: Battle out of Hell, and Painkiller Gold/Black Edition are out, were totally focused on Painkiller Xbox (coming this year). Its hell of a challenge to squeeze that behemoth of a game into Xbox 64 MB, but weve already made a serious progress and even showed a playable demo behind this years E3 closed door. More news as soon as the release date is finalized.
People Can Fly, 21/06/2005

It does make you wonder whether these optimisations will ever make their way to the PC version of the game, or by the time that they do, whether it will matter.

*UPDATE* You can see some pics of the XBox conversion, here