TsN to provide coverage of CPL Extreme Summer Championships 2005

The Team Sportscast Network is extremely proud to announce coverage of the Cyberathlete Professional League’s 2005 Extreme Summer Championships taking place in Dallas, Texas from Wednesday, July 6th to Sunday, July 10th. Comprised of more than 7,300 gamers from all across the globe, this CPL event features six competitive tournaments with a combined prize total of more than $210,000 USD. It also represents the fifth stop on the $1,000,000 CPL World Tour, a worldwide Painkiller competition taking place in nine different countries throughout the course of this year.

TsN is poised once again to raise the bar for competitive gaming media, utilizing new technology to provide continuous video coverage. This year will be unlike anything we have ever done before. Hunter Luisi, TsN’s CEO said. The difference between this year’s coverage and anything done previously is our transition from a ‘sports-like’ broadcast to a truly professional quality sports production. The Team Sportscast Network will again redefine the how to on live event coverage of competitive multiplayer gaming.

As a part of TsN’s transformation, TsN is excited to add a whole new dimension to our unparalleled commentary and analysis by bringing you comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the Summer Championship. Featuring live interviews from the Intel sky bridge, as well as full coverage of the activities taking place during the event, TsN hopes to elevate its established reputation as the leader in competitive game broadcasting, in addition to helping advance gaming into traditional sports arenas.

The Team Sportscast Network would like to thank Intel, NVIDIA, and Insomnia 365 for their continued support of competitive gaming and for assisting TsN’s efforts to bring the most complete gaming experience to gamers all around the world. TsN would also like to extend its gratitude to TypeFrag and Art of War Central for their ongoing commitment to the success of TsN and the CPL.

About TsN

The Team Sportscast Network, L.L.C., is an online broadcast and media organization. Since its inception in 1999, TsN has pioneered the use of online media to deliver programming specifically targeted at the competitive gaming community. Utilizing both video and audio, TsN continues to lead the market through technical innovation and unparalleled quality.

About the CPL

The Cyberathlete Extreme Summer Championships is bigger than ever with over 7,300 gamers expected to compete in the game tournament and LAN party at the new Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine, Texas on Wednesday, July 6 through Sunday, July 10, 2005. The $1,000,000 CPL World Tour, which will conclude with a giant showdown in November in New York City, is the largest, year-long competitive tour in the growing sport of videogame competitions.

For More Information

http://www.tsncentral.com

http://worldtour.tsncentral.com

http://www.thecpl.com

Contact

Brian Kennedy, CIO, Team Sportscast Network, L.L.C.

corp@tsncentral.com

www.tsncentral.com

Another painkiller interview has been made by dignitas and this time it was Deatz from check-six who was the lucky one to be interviewed. So far Dignitas have made 16 spotlight interviews and you can be sure that more interesting interviews are coming up. If you missed any of the previous interviews you could find them all under the painkiller spotlight archive on their site.

Here is a snippet of the interview:

Team Dignitas:
First of all, for how long have you been playing Painkiller?

x6|Deatz:
Like most of the events, Vo0, fatal1ty, Zyz :), but…maybe me this time ? 🙂 no just kidding :), ye I guess it will be like that.

The whole Dignitas PK Spotlight interview could be found here.