CPL Expands Summer Championship

This just in from the CPL:

The CPL announced that it has expanded the $50,000 World Tour USA Stop for Painkiller from 128 to 256 slots. The tournament has been full for almost a month and the CPL wants to provide more gamers an opportunity to qualify for the $500,000 finals.

Get in quick if you want a chance to take on the greats at Painkiller in the US of A. Sign ups can be found HERE.

CPL Turkey Qualifier Scores

Winner Bracket First Round:

SK|SteLam > d.reptile
psycho: 13-12
sacred: 22-10

checksix\destrukt > booms`play.uts
2-0

fnatic/Gopher > checksix\deatz.de
2-0

checksix\LeXeR > Phillinley
2-0

Fatal1ty > first-C_Lains
2-0

[3D]wombat > Forrest`play.uts
2-1

Winner Bracket Second Round:

SK|SteLam > checksix\destrukt
2-1

fnatic/Vo0 > [EYE]sakh
2-1

Fatal1ty > [3D]wombat
2-0

Winner Bracket Quarters:

fnatic/Vo0 > SK|SteLam
sacred: 11-10
absinthe: 15-13

fnatic/Gellehsak > Zen
sacred: 17-12
sacred: 14-17
sacred: 17-16

Fatal1ty > u5|cha0ticz
2-0

Winner Bracket Semi Finals:

stermyplay.uts > Fatal1ty
psycho: 4-8
sacred: 22-17
psycho: 17-14

fnatic/Vo0 > fnatic/Gellehsak
sacred: 18-16 (4x overtime!)
absinthe: 22-15

Winner Bracket Final:

fnatic/Vo0 > stermy`play.uts
psycho: 26-15
sacred: 14 – 21
sacred: 29 – 1

Loser Bracket First Round:

d.reptile > booms`play.uts
absinthe: 38-20
sacred: 39-10

Loser Bracket Second Round:

checksix\LeXeR > dreptile
sacred: 20-10
abinthe: 20-5

Loser Bracket Round 4:

[EYE]sakh > u5|cha0ticz
2-1

checksix\deatz > Zen
sacred: 10-12
sacred: 20-5
sacred: 20-5

estar*Ztrider > SK|SteLam
psycho: 19-18 (2x overtime)
absinthe: 20-15

Grand Final:

fnatic/Vo0 > Fatal1ty
sacred: 24-12
absinthe: 19-14

Signups LIVE! for Zboard PK LAN

Zboard, in association with Dell, Connect3D, Ceratech, Accuratus and Starbytes LAN Cafe are proud to present our open Painkiller tournament. The tournament offers the chance to win some great prizes from Zboard and Connect3D, free give-aways in the form of a raffle, as well as the possiblity to be selected (by the current zb.pk team) to become a fully sponsored member of the team zboard painkiller squad.

This opportunity is ultra rare and gives the lucky player the chance to go to major LAN events all expenses paid! It also includes a full setup from zboard and Dell, TV and print coverage compliments of Livewire and Invader magazine, monthly bootcamps and more!

You will also have a chance to tryout the zboard and its keysets first hand and test the power of Dells latest XPS gaming machines.The event will be held at Starbytes LAN Cafe in southampton, Hampshire in the south of the UK and is only open to UK residents.

The tournament is aimed at being fun, bootcamping and winning some prizes, the zb.pk player selection is secondary. It will be Running over two days in february, saturday 26th and sunday 27th. Doors open 9am Saturday and the event will close 5pm Sunday evening. It will consist of a 32 man bracket with the possibility of expanding to a 64 man depending of the interest in the event.

more indepth info and signups at http://www.teamzboard.com/pktourney.htm or idle #team.zboard and ask a team member

Signups are now live, head over there and reserve your spot!!

CPL Turkey Qualifier Coverage

The coverage of the CPL qualifier in Istanbul is pretty poor, but ill try to get as much information sorted as possible.

Due to the framerate problems while recording demos with the 1.61 version, no demos are being recorded.

Furthermore the tournament PCs seem to be pretty bad. Running bad framerates and bad graphics on Geforce 5500 cards. Apparantly the shuttles normally used at the CPL got stopped by customs.