The Team Dignitas cup came to an end today, which saw the undefeated in all Painkiller compititions Vo0 take the win. The cup started on Saturday, at around 12pm GMT and lasted til around 9pm GMT the same night and saw some amazing games take place.

TsN shoutcasted near enough all matches that took place, and also provided video footage through their TvSN program. So a big big thank you goes out to TsN, who did a great job of giving the spectators some fun.

Vo0 got to the final with ease, taking out the following people on his way:

maniax [30-10]
CLains [57-0 / 43-18]
toxter [44-10 / 24-18]
Forrest [45-6 / 15-8]

In the final he came across one of his arch rival enemys (in a friendly way) in Painkiller; Stermy. Stermy had looked strong all tournament, and it was definately going to be a match to remember.

The game started off slowly, but got into a nice pace.. Vo0, however, was not going to lose. Not to anyone.

Vo0 [23-14 / 29-23] Stermy

This sees Vo0 still unbeaten in all tournaments, whether they be online or offline. When will the day he takes his first defeat come?

Jolt are to run another PCZone tournament for Painkiller this month, the tournament which has a pretty cool prize pool will start towards the end of January and will be single elimination.

If you’re looking for some extra hardware, or just want to have some Painkiller fun, you can sign up for the tournament here.

The tournament is open to all residents of Europe.

As the 2004 year has passed, GGL have decided it’s time for the Player of 2004 awards to take place. The awards are going to pick the person from each game who has been most successful and well-known through-out 2004, as well as achievements. The PK nominees are as follows:

1) Sander Kaasjager aka. Vo0 (fnatic, )
2) Stephan Lammert aka SteLam (SK, )
3) Jonathan Wendel aka Fatal1ty ()
4) Alessandro Avallone aka Stermy (play.it, )
5) Benjamin Bohrmann aka zyz (SK, )

As you can see, there is some big big names in that list. It’s going to be a tough one to call. If vo0 doesn’t win it though, I will be very surprised. 🙂

The awards show, which will be hosted by Radio ITG’s djWHEAT will take place January 28th. Stay tuned.

The Final has just come to an end and the result is…..

Vo0 14:9 DM_Sacred & DM_Psycho 11:10 SK|zyz

That final was one of the greatest matches ever. Vo0 proved once again why he is #1, by coming back from 4 frags down in the last 20 seconds to win 11:10, and thus retaining his CPL crown. Good games to all who played, and good work Vo0!

Last night saw the lower bracket final, consolation final and the winners bracket final played. The outcome of these matches surprised quite a few people.

In the Winner Bracket it was a battle between Vo0, the #1 Painkiller player in the world, and Fata1lty who came 2nd last CPL. This was bound to be a match to remember, as both players have a fairly similar attacking style on certain maps.

DM_Fallen2te: 2-24 – Fatal1ty
DM_Psycho: 9-10 – Vo0
DM_Sacred: 12-27 – Vo0

Overall: Vo0 moves to the Grand Final.

Losers Bracket Final

This match was between Stermy & SKs zyz, which would of been strange to both of these players as they have never played each other before as far as I know. So, they would be meeting each others playing styles for the very first time.

Scores still unavailable at this point.

Overall: SK|zyz takes the win.

Consolation Final

This match again, was a first time battle between these 2 players in Painkiller.. which would mean that they would have to predict each others playing styles for the first 10 minutes or so. There was a pretty big burden on this match however, as the winner of this goes onto the Grand Final to meet Vo0.

DM_Fallen2te: 0-25 – SK|zyz
DM_Sacred: 10-16 – SK|zyz

Overall: Massive win for a fairly new guy on the Painkiller scene, SK|zyz takes the win.

The Grand Final which everyone is waiting for will take place today at 2pm CST (8pm GMT, 9pm CET) and is definately going to attract some attention. Can the new guy on the block ruffle Vo0s feathers and take this one? Or will the defending champion breeze past and be crowned CPL Player of the Year? Only time will tell.

The Winter CPL GUI is available for download, thanks to worre & cubik. There was a lot of confusion as to whether it would be used or not, as yar from the Chains.Mod team had made a mod also. Unfortunately for yar though, his mod was not compatible with the CPL timer fix, so it had to get scrapped. Below you can find what Cubik had originally posted in the minor news section.

It’s done now. After yar forgot to add the timer fix to his mod and then disappeared again, we had to work all last night to get our mod ready for competitive play. But I guess it paid off, since it will be used in this CPL Winter.

READ THE TEXT-FILE BEFORE INSTALLING.

NOTE: this is for painkiller 1.35.

For more information please visit their mod page here.