Registration for the CPL $100,000 Quake3 Tournament to be held in Dallas Texas in about 80 days or so will be opening today after a botched attempt last week. Keep your eyes on Cyberathlete.com and the registration page.

Wow I thought for sure that I was gonna win that poll, thanks ;) * group hug * hey don't touch my ass. Ok so right, I started working on the enhancing of the search engine. I didn't get too many suggestions, but post #12 is exactly what I'm gonna try and do. There will also be a "top 20 searches" and "top 20 last searches" so you can find out what kind of horrifying things your fellow shack visitors are searching for.

As those of you probably wanting to attend saw yesterday, the CPL announced a delay of of registration of the Razer / CPL event in April because of heavy loads that caused the registration software to fail. I can't believe this is happening to so many big LAN events. It looks so stupid. It's happened before and now it's still happening. You are shooting for around a 1000 people at attend. That means more than a thousand will try and register. That means on the day that you open registration more than a thousand people will hit your site at the same time for multiple times. A lot of processes will be started. That = not good. Install mod_perl, it will help. Sure it may still slow down a whole lot, but it will help. Also configure your Apache right. There, I'm done :)

note by Steve: It was actually the 3rd party credit card authentication server that couldnt handle the load. Not CPL's servers. You can also see a comment (#23) here by Angel Munoz, the CPL president.

Couple bits of Tournament news. Firstly RazerCPL has dropped their admission prices a bit to the $100,000 Quake3 tournament. It'll be $30 online, and $40 at the door. Secondly, GamesCon has been cancelled due to sponsors pulling out.

The CPL organization has opened up the razercpl website which lists off the inredible prize list ($40,000 cash for first place!) and has a few more details on the event. 80 more days till launch!

The XSi-Tournament is coming in just a few days, they have posted several more in depth player profiles of the players involved who are flying in from around the world to participate. Also, The $100,000 CPL/Razer Quake3 tournament to be held in Dallas TX has hotel reservations opening up.

Just got this word from the Cyberathlete folks. It looks like the $100,000 Quake3 tournament is going to be held in Dallas now. $40,000 cash purse for first prize guys, that's a lot of pepsi & m&m's.

Dallas, Texas - January 7, 2000 -- The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) announced today that the Razer / CPL $100,000 Tournament and LAN Event has been moved to Dallas, Texas. Originally set to take place in Los Angeles, California, in the month of March, the CPL was unable to secure appropriate space for an event of this size in an acceptable time frame. Instead the CPL will hold an event in Los Angeles on June 2000 and has moved the Razer / CPL Event to Dallas.

So, with the PGL disappearing and the CPL taking off like crazy with stuff like their $100,000 Quake3 tournament to be held next year on the west coast as well as i2e2 doing some UT tourneys, a lot of people are still wondering if this whole professional gamer thing is going to take off. Challenge-US has a look at Quake3 from the perspective of a professional gamer.

Loonygames has a new article up taking a look at the rise and fall of the PGL and some talk about the other gaming tournaments and leagues around the world offering up all those big cash prizes. The Cyberthlete Professional League being the only one in regular operation currently. From the progress CPL has been making and the recent announcement of that $100,000 CASH Quake3 tournament last month I would say this stuff is already happening, there is no more question about it.

As if the server wasnt totally bogged down enough already. Mike Wardwell of the CPL was kind enough to hand over the FRAG3 final 8 demos to myself to release to you guys. As many of you guys know Q3Test v1.08 has some problems with demo playback. I would recommend checking out either the comments on this news item (which will be a bit slow, sorry) Hope you guys enjoy the demos, and thanks to Damage for hosting the files. Oh, almost forgot. Here is the link to the demos!

A few fairly interesting things went down over the weekend. The most interesting thing was probably the CPL announcement of a $100,000 Quake3 tournament. They are giving away $40,000 CASH to the first place winner. Also, that all so freaky Alice game has a new website and I ganked images. Something that drove a few people crazy was the release of some Half-Life Opposing Force footage. After you check that out there was some clarification on that Blair Witch game (article1 and article2). Oh yeah, and lastly in case you missed it last Friday evening the Mac Unreal Tournament demo was released.

While checking out the FRAG3 coverage I just noticed the CPL announced their west coast event. Did you guys see that cash prize lineup? Holy shit. $100,000 cash prizes, here are the top 8. They are giving away cash to the top 32 finishers in the Quake3 tournament.

8: $2000
7: $3000
6: $4000
5: $6000
4: $7000
3: $10,000
2: $20,000
1: $40,000

The Truegamers.net guys have gotten a hold of a few Q3 1on1 demos showing off CPL qualifications going down in Dallas and a couple of other cities.

If you didnt already have enough reason to show up at FRAG3 this coming weekend, CPL has announced that the designer and fashion consultant for Epic Games, CliffyB will be running a Unreal Tournament... tournament.

oh, did I mention the suckage has finally been updated?

CPL passed word on where Frag 3 Qualifications will be held. So if you want a place in the Q3 tournament at Frag 3, you might wanna check this out:

Game Domain
7223 Commerce Street
Springfield, VA 22150
703.644.9136
www.gamedomainllc.com
Date: Saturday, October 16, 1999

Net Heads
1011 East Westfield Boulevard
Indianapolis, IN 46220
317.257.6635
www.netheads.com
Date: Saturday, October 23, 1999

AdrenaLAN
1002 North Central Expressway
Suite 499
Richardson, TX 75080
972.671.2008
www.adrenalan.net
Date: Friday, October 22, 1999

Word from CPL is that registration for Frag 3 will close October 15. Remember that no walk-ins will be allowed on Friday and Saturday, so be sure to register if you want to attend. CPL has announced however that limited walk-ins will be allowed on Sunday, when the finals are being played. Cost for a Sunday-only pass will be $12, while a 3-day pass will cost $25.

adrenalan.net is having a CPL qualification tourney with $500 prize in Dallas. Page is b0rked at this moment though, but be sure to hit it a few times today for when it comes back.

Word from the CPL guys who are organizing FRAG3 down here in Dallas for the end of October is that there will be no walk-in admittance. You must sign up on the web page if you want to attend the event. Looks like this is going to be the biggest one yet.

With 700 confirmed registrations and over 30 days still left for FRAG 3, the CPL is urging everyone that is planning to attend the event to register online as soon as possible. The CPL has decided not to allow walk-ins or accept any third party free passes for FRAG 3

Registration for FRAG3 will be opening tomorrow on the CPL page. It's going to be another $10,000 cash prize for first place to the best Q3Test 1on1 player to show up in Dallas Texas around Halloween. Check around 4pm PST for the opening of registration.

Word from TrueGamers.net is that the Total Mayhem Q3 clan tournament has concluded with Stickmen emerging victorious over KMA. Stickmen of course being led by recent CPL champion Wombat. Demos should appear shortly on SHOD

Here you go, the demos from CPL GroundZero. Hopefully you guys wont kill my server with all of the downloads. Make sure and use the links provided here so I can attempt to cover server bandwidth charges. The first player name is the POV that it is recorded from. Demo support is not officially supported by Q3Test v1.08 but if you're lucky you might be able to dig up someone on Chatshack to help ya.

GroundZero Finals
stx-wombat vs Gemini gz-womb-gem.zip
Gemini vs stx-wombat gz-gem-womb.zip

3rd / 4th place match:
Sujoy vs Sploid-r3v gz-suj-sploid.zip
Sploid-r3v vs Sujoy gz-sploid-suj.zip

Semi-Finals
Gemini vs Sujoy gz-gem-suj.zip
Sujoy vs Gemini gz-suj-gem.zip
Sploid-r3v vs Bane-1134 gz-sploid-bane.zip
DieharD-r3v vs Sujoy gz-die-suj.zip
Bane-1134 vs stx-wombat gz-bane-womb.zip
Bane-1134 vs Sploid-r3v gz-bane-sploid.zip
stx-wombat vs Bane-1134 gz-womb-bane.zip