CPL Winter 2005

The CPL Winter Championships 2005have commeneced today. HLTV.orgwill be concentrating on bringing our readers news updates on the Counter-Strike 1.6event.

Thisnews item is to give you readers all the information you might need tomake it extremely easy to find out what's going on and when its goingon so you don't miss anything exciting.

What is the CPL?

Before I get into thisthough, incase any of you are looking at this and thinking toyourselves: "What on earth is the CPL?" i'll explain it. The CPL standsfor 'Cyberathlete Professional League'. Taking each of those words outof context, cyberathleteas in a sportsman on the computer, professionalas in this a level where there are large sums of cash prizes and finally league,well that's quite easy to explain - a number of teams battling it outfor the top spot. In other words, the CPL is bi-annual event hosted ona variety of PC games.

Now onto more important matters:

CPL Tournaments

Firstly, if you are interested in any of the other tournaments (apart from the CS1.6) please go to the offical CPL 2005 Winterwebsite to find out more information on them. In case you didn't know, the other tournaments played will be a Quake 4tournament and a F.E.A.R tournament.Click here to visit the offical website.

CPL Winter 2005 CS1.6 Tournament Coverage

Secondly, going back to the Counter-Strike 1.6tournament; there are 62 teams competing this year and many top teamsare taking place. You can find more information about all the teams,all the brackets and all the results by visiting HLTV.org's very own CPL Winter 2005coverage webpage. You can do so by clicking here.

Please note that the brackets will be announced at 02:00 CET (Thursday 15th December) so they will be updated then.

All the matches begin tomorrow from 5PM CET.

HLTV, Scorebots And Other Useful Information

Thirdly,if you simply want to find out what matches are going and on what HLTVserver you need to get on to watch that particular match just visit ourHLTV IP page by clicking here.If you just wish to see what exactly is going on in the match but can'tbe bothered and/or are having steam problems (which we all know isquite possible) you can just log yourself onto mIRC (which can bedownloaded here) and join a channel which has a match scorebot. The cplcast channels can all be found by visiting this page. Also remember to join #CPL, #cplcast and #HLTV on quakenet to find out information you might need. The offical IRC channel for the #cpl can be found on gamesurge.

I think that covers everything that will help you to enjoy the CPL Winter 2005 Championshipswithout any hassle. Also remember to check out HLTV.org'sinterviews with the top teams prior to the CPL to see how they haveprepared for the event and their thoughts on the CPL. Check out this page for the interviews.

I hope this is helpful and if you need anything else don't hesitate to contact us!

Links:

HLTV.org IRC channel

Unoffical CPL Coverage IRC channel

The CPL Offical Webpage

Quick Links To Team Interviews:

Team astralis Interview

Team Serious-Gaming Interview

Team CompLexity Interview

Team SK-Gaming Interview

Team mousesports Interview

Team Four-Kings Gaming Royalty Interview

Team NiP Interview