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The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) is a professional sports tournament organization specializing in computer and console video games.

Headquartered in Dallas, The CPL holds tournaments throughout the U.S., Europe, Latin America and Asia and hosts a variety of teams and players usually regarded as the best in their respective games. The CPL's tournaments are open to all registrants in the form of qualifier tournaments and invitations. Due to ESRB content rating concerns, CPL events are restricted to participants age 17 and older (with the exception of some "teen" rated games). However, a player can also register with a parental consent form at the age of 16.

As of early 2006, the CPL has distributed more than US$3,000,000 in prize money. The CPL's aim is to make computer gaming a viable competitive and spectator event, on the level of real, actual athletic sports.

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Partners

In 2006, the CPL has announced the microprocessors manufacturer AMD as its lead title sponsor and ATI Technologies as a secondary title sponsor. The CPL is also sponsored by Pizza Hut, BenQ, Razer, Plantronics, Verizon, and Insomnia 365.

The supporting sponsors for the U.S. CPL events are: D-Link, and Steel Series.

The official Television Media Partner for the CPL is DirecTV, its On-Line Media Partner is GotFrag and its Documentary Partner is Cohesion Productions.

CAL Division

Cyberathlete Amateur League
The CPL also operates an online league (with live finals that takes place during CPL events) for amateur players and teams, known as the Cyberathlete Amateur League. CAL operates year-round, with regular 12-week seasons, one or two matches per week, and a single-elimination postseason (playoffs). In the case of Counter-Strike and other official CPL tournament games, the CPL uses CAL performance as a factor in seeding at its live events. The CPL is now also supported by CybershotZ

Past CPL World Champions

Individual Competitions

Team Competitions


Past CPL Event Winners

Past CPL Winners

2001 Virtua CPL Latin America - Sao Paulo - SK.de

2001 Tilt Total CPL Latin America - Rio de Janeiro - SK.de

World Tour 2005

At the 2004 Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships, the CPL announced details on its largest event ever, the CPL World Tour. This event took place throughout 2005, with a total of 10 international stops and a finals event held in the New York City U.S. and televised by MTV.

2005 CPL World Tour

World Season 2006

The 2006 CPL World Season was a series of electronic sports competitions organized by the CPL in the fall of 2006. It was a follow up of the 2005 CPL World Tour and was announced by the CPL on July 1, 2006.

The tour featured two games, Counter-Strike and Quake 3. After a total of 7 qualifier events, the finals were held on 16-20th December, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Dallas, Texas. The championship finals had a total prize purse of $150,000 and were won by fnatic (Counter-Strike) and Paul "czm" Nelson (Quake 3).

2006 CPL World Season

G7 Controversy

On November 7, 2007, the G7 organization announced that their teams will not be attending CPL Winter 2007 in Dallas and possible future events hosted by the CPL. The G7 states the reason for not attending the upcoming Winter CPL was "the organising company behind it is lacking the necessary efforts that are needed in paying out cash prizes from tournaments they organize or by licensees dating back to 2003 until today." Adding that the G7 and its teams will not attend any event of the CPL or its licensees until this matter has been cleared up.

The CPL responded that this boycott by the G7 was improper and that the CPL does not cooperate under threat.

CPL Divisions

In mid-2006, the CPL together with its international partners announced a series of licensed divisions to bring worldwide the experience of the CPL events.

CPL Singapore

CPL China

CPL Australia

CPL Chile

CPL Brazil

CPL Korea

CPL Nordic

CPL Italy

Official Media Partners

External links

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