After an awesome stop in Dallas, USA and a cancelled stop in Liepzig, Germany many have been waiting for the next stop that will be held in Sheffield, UK. The time has come and this weekend the greatest players will fight for the honourable #1 spot. I have prepared everything for this stop and have written a feature with all the things you will need to know about the stop. We will ofcourse fill it with more information before and during the stop. I will be attending this World Tour stop as well and once again working with the tournament and CPL.

CPL WT UK Coverage

//dREk

The big Grand Final for IndiWEB PK Challenge has ended. The winner is SK|SteLam who did beat Dignitas/reptile in the Grand Final game. SK|SteLam has really dominated the IndiWEB PK Challenge tournament by winning two qualifiers and now winning the Grand Final and take home €700 euros. Dignitas/reptile lost against SK|SteLam in the WB final but won against 4K^Zaccabus in the Consolation final and could face SK|SteLam again. However, SteLam played well once again and managed to win.

Big thanks to IndiWEB for doing this tournament and credits to the admins who made it possible (Darthbane, Charly and Gurke).

After the big Grand Final for IndiWEB PK Challenge I decided to interview the winner SK|SteLam. Id like to state that this is just a short unprepared interview but hopefully it is a good read.

You can find that interview at http://www.team-dignitas.com/.

The 19th issue of Team Dignitas Painkiller Spotlight is out and this time the glory fell upon the new gamer talent Ztrider from Team Fnatic. He is definitely one of the best newcomers for gaming this year by having no previous “pro” history and improving his result as the time goes on with placements like 4th in CPL WT Brazil and Sweden and now recently a well respected 3rd place in CPL WT USA. This interview covers areas of how everything started for this great talent, his strengths and weaknesses, the road towards number 1 and of course WT 2006.

Here is a piece of the whole interview:

Team Dignitas:
Tell us a bit about your gaming career and how it all started and the story behind your choice of Painkiller as the game?

Fnatic/Ztrider:
Yep, next one 🙂

The whole Dignitas PK Spotlight interview could be found here.

If you have not read the other great painkiller spotlights go to www.team-dignitas.com and go to news archive and select Painkiller Spotlights and you will get all of them.

Enjoy!

//dREk

The details of the UK CPL World Tour stop were announced today. The event will take place over the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of September at the Magna Science Adventure Centre in Sheffield.

The landmark $1,000,000 CPL World Tour, which boasts the largest cash purse ever offered by a game tournament, is traveling several international cities and is expecting to bring together the worlds best competitive PC game players and computing enthusiasts at every stop. The official game of the World Tour is Painkiller.

The title sponsor of the tour is Intel, the worlds largest chip maker and a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communication products. Intel will be providing the microprocessors inside every gaming PC used at the UK CPL Word Tour stop.

The other main tour sponsors include NVIDIA, the worlds leader in graphics and digital media processors.

UK CPL World Tour Stop details:

The UK CPL World Tour stop will be offering a total prize fund of about $70,000.

$50,000 – Painkiller tournament

$10,000 – Counter Strike 1.6 tournament

$8,000 – Female Only Counter Strike 1.6 tournament

As well as the official tournaments, the event will also host a Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) LAN party at Magna Science Adventure Centre. Game Frontier (CPLs Strategic Partner) will arrange approximately 300 BYOC places, which will be open 24 hours from Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th September.

For more information visit http://www.gamefrontier.com

//dREk

border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/de.gif />dignitas/reptile has won The IndiWEB Painkiller Challenge #5 after defeating border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/de.gif /> SK|Stelam in the Final this afternoon. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/de.gif />dignitas/reptile picks up 100 euros for the win and heads the rankings in the overall tournament. The grand final will have around 1250 euros in price money and will soon be played after the last (6th) qualifier.

You could read a Post match interview with dignitas/reptile at team Dignitas site along with some other info regarding Indiweb PK Challenge.

//dREk