CPL Unreal Tournament Event

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Jeff Gross

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The Cyberathlete Professional League announced today that the online registration for this summer's Unreal Tournament Event, sponsored by Moshpit Entertainment http://www.moshpitentertainment.com, will be launched on Wednesday, March 21, 2001 at 3PM central. The $25,0000 Unreal Tournament one-on-one tourney will take place June 21-24, 2001 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Dallas, Texas. The event will be named The Moshpit CPL Event.

A few of the developers of Unreal Tournament will be present at the event, including lead designer and CPL board member, Cliff Bleszinski. Also the event will host another C3 (Consummate Computer Competition), in which computers will be judged on several categories including aesthetics, performance tuning, and efficient cooling systems. C3 is co-managed by HardOCP http://www.hardocp.com. The event will also include a 400 BYOC area, sponsor exhibition booths, unofficial competitions and a number of workshops.

To sign up for The Moshpit CPL Event visit http://registration.thecpl.com on Wednesday, March 21 after 3PM central. Tournament rules, tournament schedule and prize distribution will be announced on the same day.

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The CPL will never have an online tourney. CPL is LAN events. There are too many factors in online play that make them inappropriate for large prize money tournaments.

However, CAL (Cyberathlete Amateur League) offers TDM and CTF divisions. You can check it out at http:\\www.caleauge.com

There is also the possibility that a future CPL tourney will be UT team. The best way to make it happen is to support the upcoming UT event and prove to the CPL that the UT community will support professional events.
 

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sounds really cool. only wish i had some 1v1 skills so i could go to these things. :) but hopefully all the kick-ass 1v1 types will support this and make the cpl glad they started paying attention to this little game that we play. :D
 

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Originally posted by hobart_paving
only wish i had some 1v1 skills so i could go to these things.

Keep in mind that there is more to the CPL event than just the tournament. I know several UT players that don't play 1v1 that plan to attend. The event will also feature a BYOC LAN. With that many UT players in one place, you are sure to find many good TDM and CTF matches. Some people are going just to meet other UT players in real life. There will also be workshops. CliffyB will even be there.
 

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Originally posted by rhakka
perhaps, but an online tourney to determine seating at an invitational LAN tourney could be feasible, couldn't it?

Something like this is a good possiblity now that the CPL has an online division. Unfortunately, at this point we don't have enough teams in our leagues to make such a thing feasible. The best way to see something like this happen is to support CAL. Get your clan signed up for the TDM and/or CTF leagues (http://www.caleague.com) and tell other clans to sign up, too.