CPL - International and National Qualifiers

Posted by Endo at 14:12 6/2/2004.

The CPLThe CPL announced today that a number of organizations have reserved country rights for the international qualifiers of The Cyberathlete® Extreme World Championships.

Countries currently reserved are:
North America - Canada
South America - Brazil and Argentina
Europe - United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Greece and Yugoslavia (Serbia)
Asia - Japan, China and Korea
Middle East - United Arab Emirates
If you currently own an IT Center/ Internet Café that would be capable of hosting a Counter Strike qualifier, then you are directed to email the CPL with the following information:
1. Complete description of the event (include dates and venue picture).
2. List of secured and/or pending sponsors.
3. Description of tournament computers, monitors and LAN configuration. Tournament computers must use (3.0 Ghz or higher) Intel® Pentium® 4 processors and NVIDIA® GeForce FX video cards.
4. Examples of any promotional material to be used for the qualifier.
5. Background of organizers and examples of other managed events.

Organizations interested in hosting an official Counter-Strike qualifier for The Cyberathlete® Extreme World Championships should submit the information to qualifiers@thecpl.com

But the CPL will be hard-pressed to find an internet café in the UK that has computers which match those specifications, and have experience in organising large scale LAN competitions in the past. In all likelihood we are looking at another overseas CPL qualifier, which is a shame for the majority of UK teams.

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ObZ^
14:06 6/2/2004		 oookkkkaaayyyy [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
dh
14:07 6/2/2004		 use earls courts arena *ha ha ha ha* [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Magic^
14:07 6/2/2004		 only norway or sweden would have those kinda cafes .... as usual [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
AirHorN
#Game2XS
14:11 6/2/2004		 machine specs wayyyyy to high, dont know 1 inet place in the uk with them specs. oh well. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Endo
Legend
14:12 6/2/2004		 hi, hoe, its off to sweden we go! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Turk1sh
14:12 6/2/2004		 Harsh :( woulda like to have a CPL Quals in UK [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Endo
Legend
14:12 6/2/2004

(This was an automated post)

The CPL announced today that a number of organizations have reserved country rights for the international qualifiers of The Cyberathlete® Extreme World Championships.

Countries currently reserved are:
North America - Canada
South America - Brazil and Argentina
Europe - United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Greece and Yugoslavia (Serbia)
Asia - Japan, China and Korea
Middle East - United Arab Emirates
If you currently own an IT Center/ Internet Café that would be capable of hosting a Counter Strike qualifier, then you are directed to email the CPL with the following information:
1. Complete description of the event (include dates and venue picture).
2. List of secured and/or pending sponsors.
3. Description of tournament computers, monitors and LAN configuration. Tournament computers must use (3.0 Ghz or higher) Intel® Pentium® 4 processors and NVIDIA® GeForce FX video cards.
4. Examples of any promotional material to be used for the qualifier.
5. Background of organizers and examples of other managed events.

Organizations interested in hosting an official Counter-Strike qualifier for The Cyberathlete® Extreme World Championships should submit the information to qualifiers@thecpl.com

But the CPL will be hard-pressed to find an internet café in the UK that has computers which match those specifications, and have experience in organising large scale LAN competitions in the past. In all likelihood we are looking at another overseas CPL qualifier, which is a shame for the majority of UK teams.
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adren
14:15 6/2/2004		 why do they have to be intel and nvidia lol [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Endo
Legend
14:16 6/2/2004		 sponsorship etc :/ [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Marcus
calibre
14:18 6/2/2004		 must use geforce cards seems a bit of a joke [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
adren
14:19 6/2/2004		 thats just silly, surely they would realise that limiting it to intel/nvidia would greatly reduce the number of cafe's that could host them. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Jimmeneh
UFO
14:21 6/2/2004		 poop [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Macca
14:23 6/2/2004		 elitist pricks [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
callous
Specster
14:27 6/2/2004		 even if we did we'd get all the frenchies and dutchies comin over to rape our cpl spots
DIEEE [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
ssj
14:39 6/2/2004		 hmm, im sure a big enough cafe in uk could ask for sponsorship from nvidia or something :) and intel, as it would promote their name as being the only cpl qual cafe in UK etc =) i hope it works :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
RH
Landed
14:42 6/2/2004		 sujoy roy will prolly org somthing [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Undone^
ForsakeN
14:46 6/2/2004
Tournament computers must use (3.0 Ghz or higher) Intel® Pentium® 4 processors

i guess if there were UK quals at cafes, most cafes couldent apply anyway [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Weebull
15:12 6/2/2004		 Hopefully someone will come forward for it. There more LANs over here the better. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
HeNdie
Void
15:27 6/2/2004		 If french people came over, it wouldnt be a uk qualifier then would it ?

Bit harsh on pc spec, maybe someone out there can give it a go! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Alk0r
18:01 6/2/2004		 Does over clocking pentium 4's to 3000mhz count ;p [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
enuex
18:53 6/2/2004		 Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't it say "Countries currently reserved" - and UK is under that list? Does that not mean some UK organisation has reserved the rights to a UK qualifier and as such the whole "offer to host it here" bit doesn't apply to UK LANs?

Until I read these comments, I interpreted that post as saying we actually had an organisation reserve the UK qualifier, hence there would be one? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
enuex
19:00 6/2/2004		 Yeh, looks like I'm right.

"Those countries listed are not the only countries that will be hosting qualifiers unless no other organizations are accepted from different countries. They are the only countries where organizations have sent applications that have been accepted in which we grant them the rights to host the qualifier in those countries. "

We have some centre somewhere with those specs, and approved by CPL :¬) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DrfL
19:13 6/2/2004		 So the hunt for the top secret lan centre begins.. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
SFAL^Sarge
Viva la!
20:47 6/2/2004		 cant be that secret, just search out the only lan cafe that isnt a cheap assed affair that uses AMD processors + runs Windows 98

seeing as _most_ lan cafes use AMD to build their PC's on the cheap, search out an expensive one! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Velta
Professional Gamer
12:47 7/2/2004		 Box Logic should do the qualifiers. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
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