With all those $100,000 tournaments popping up, here is an editorial written by Muiy taking a look at the future of pro-gaming, and in particular the CPL.

You can now register for the Scandinavian CPL event on http://register.thecpl.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="external. This event will take place August 3 - 6 and the online admission charge is 40 dollars. More info on CPLEurope.com.

Looks like the recent CPL events have interested C|Net's GameCenter enough to host one of their own. Their Battle by the Bay event is a four day LAN event in San Francisco, for 800 people and with a tournament with a $50,000 grand prize ( $100,000 total). The event will be in August. Thanks Gameseek.

The CPL has opened registration for its September 28 - October 1 event, FRAG 4 and the December 14 - December 17 Babbage's CPL $100,000 event. http://register.thecpl.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="external is the site to go to if you'd like to attend. More info on both these events on the CPL website .

The big CPL registration is now open, FRAG4 as well as the next $100,000 tournament. FRAG4 is focused on 4on4 Quake3 teamplay while the Babbages event will be a 1on1 deal. It requires a credit card fee for you to make it on the list. There are limited spots and it fills up fast, go signup here.

Fairly quiet weekend. First on Friday we heard there might be another one of those Denial of Service attacks brewing, but this turned out to not be true. Then on Saturday new Half-Life server DLLs were released to fix some of the problems with the new 1.1 Half-Life server. There was also the Serious Sam interview on Old Man Murray. We now all know what Croatians think of id Software. And then yesterday, Fatality actually lost in a CPL tournament, with Blue going home with the big money. And also, it had to be proclaimed that the full version of MDK2 indeed rules as much as the demo.

Just got this word in from the guys at Epicenter, it looks like Fatality, the $100,000 RazerCPL tournament champion has lost his first CPL match. The Taco Bell CPL tournament in Singapore is going down right now and S21.0 (yup, who?! a Korean player) has beaten Fatality by a score of 13 to 8. Here is a snapshot of the final score. Dont worry though about Fatality, he came back to play the S21.0 again and slapped him around 38 to 9. You can grab some demos from Cached. (direct link). The finals are set for Fatality vs [9]Blue (Fatality has to win twice, and [9]Blue once). That match will be played at 5am CST.Thanks Demosthenes

7am update by Maarten: Blue has won the CPL Asia tournament, after beating Fatality in the finals. The first round was 7 to 2 on Q3DM6 to Fatality, and the second round was 9 to 7 on Q3DM13 for Blue, winning the tournament. Again, you can grab the demos from Cached.

2pm update by Steve: You can check out some pictures of the events as well as demos on Stomped.

The CPL has announced that during the FRAG 4 registration on Monday, people will have the option to pre-register for the Babbage's CPL $100,000 tournament that is going down in December. A limited amount of these early registrations spots will be available at $30 per person until June 30.

For those interested in following the CPL Asia event that starts in two days, you can get coverage on Cached or go to #cpl and #cplasia on irc.enterthegame.com.

The CPL has announced that the registration site for FRAG 4, will open Monday June 12, 2000 at 3:00PM central time at http://register.thecpl.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="external. This is the CPL event that will take place September 28 through October 1, with about 800 people expected to attend.

The second episode of the Pringo RazerCPL video is now up, even including footage of everyone's favorite webmaster sCary (although they misspell it as sCarey, doh!).

If you want to see a 'very candid' video documentary on a few Quake players preparing for RazerCPL, you should check out Episode 1 of Pringo Video. Quake, it's a lifestyle baby!

It looks like the upcoming FRAG4 CPL event is going to have one more ringer team in the mix. Clan[9] has announced a US division which isnt all that exciting by itself but the fact that 2 players are moving overseas and 1 more player across the nation just to play a game is pretty crazy. They even scored 2nd place CPL finisher Makaveli into the lineup.

The CPL announced that the date of FRAG 4 has been changed and will now be held September 28 through October 1. The online pre-purchase price has been lowered to $30, and at $99 a night the hotel rooms at the Hyatt Regency are now 20 bucks cheaper.

Looks like pro-gaming is the flavor of the week. The folks at GamesOrb have a new article up offering some speculation on playing Quake3 as a professional sport as the CPL is already doing.

As professional gaming is the flavor of the day, CPL has announced 2 more tournaments for this year. Firstly (and most excitingly to me) is a teamplay tournament to be held at the end of October. FRAG4. They prize purse will be about $30,000 cash. At the end of the year during mid-December they will be playing host to yet another $100,000 cash tournament sponsored by Babbages.

The FRAG 4 will be at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas and will take place October 26-29, 2000. This event will be different from all previous CPL events, as it will host the CPL's first deathmatch team tournament. The total cash prize for the team tournament is expected to be $30,000

GamePig has an excellent article talking with 3 different industry figures about the future of competitive gaming. Angel Munoz of the CPL, Ryan Feltrin of GrayMatter (Wolf2K) and Gabe Newell of Valve (and PowerPlay). Also mentioned in the article is that the CPL will be hosting teamplay tournaments in the future. Considering Angel's comments in the interview one can assume they will be Quake3 teamplay.

By spectators, I'm insinuating that gaming as a competitive sport cannot survive without its spectators. So the key is to get them involved, much the way they do with current "competitive" sports.

GamersHome has an interview with the president of the Cyberathlete League, Angel Munoz. Topics covered include of course professional gaming and the future of the CPL.

The CPL folks are having a poll asking when they should hold the next Cyberathlete tournament. The end of October or the middle of December. Your votes will directly impact the decision so if you're into CPL take a vote.

The CPL has a poll up asking if they should reschedule FRAG4 to allow more people to bring their own computers.