Today saw Rocketboy register for the CPL Spain event after rumours that he was going to attend the event. Rocketboy is most famous in the gaming world for having beaten Fatal1ty in the Doom3 $125000 Fatal1ty booth tour.

You can find the CPL registration list here:

http://www.thecpl.com/register/?page=viewtourn&eventid=11&tournid=54

and an, as yet, empty list of registered players, here:

http://www.e-life2005.com/en/torneos/painkiller/participantes

..which is the official CPL Spain website.

Fatal1ty.com ( http://fatal1ty.com/ ) has had yet another face-lift. Previously from the fiendishly fast hand-animation site, we’d seen a transition to heavily graphical version where most of the content was streaming video. Following that it was downgraded to a more simple website, which brings us to the current iteration.

Many parts of the site still seem ‘TBD’, but it is interesting to see a very different approach to professional gaming in portraying a gamer brandname.

We will see Fatal1ty competing in CPL Spain next weekend, and with the recent announcement of the MTV involvement, no doubt Fatal1ty.com will benefit from any positive coverage of the player.

You can find Fatal1ty’s website at http://www.fatal1ty.com and the site’s forum at http://forum.abit-usa.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=56

The CPL has announced a new points system for the CPL World Tour.

The CPL announces a new point system for the $1,000,0000 World Tour.
This new point system, developed in conjunction with Bill Connolly (aka Wiseguy), rewards consistent achievement over the course of the World Tour and provides bonus points for players who win a match over higher-seeded players.

Overall, the new point system will provide a more fair representation of a players performance in the CPL World Tour.

At the World Tour Finals the tour participant who accumulates the most points will be awarded $20,000 by Intel (Title Sponsor of the World Tour) as the Most Valuable Player of the league. Using this new point system, it is possible for the recipient of this $20,000 to be someone other than the World Tour champion.

Point accumulation will be the primary information used to establish seeding for each Tour Stop throughout the year.

For more information on the point system visit: http://www.cplworldtour.com/index2.php?p=standings

You can find the post here.

The FUSE TV show covering PK, professional gaming and the CPL Winter event, is available for download, here: ftp://ftp.thecpl.com/defused.zip (570 MB)

The CPL had this to say about it:

The television show DFused premiered “Cyber Jocks” on Monday, April 11th on the FUSE network. The episode focused on professional gaming and the CPL Winter Event in Dallas, Texas.

source : http://www.thecpl.com/league/?s=news&p=newsitem_788

CPL have announced that MTV will be covering the CPL Spain event.

MTV has confirmed that it is sending a film crew to the next CPL World Tour stop taking place Friday, April 29 to Sunday, May 1, 2005 in Barcelona, Spain.

You can find the press release, here.