In addition to the official videogame competitions, the event will feature endless unofficial tournaments and grudge matches for a wide spectrum of games.
Thanks to its primary sponsor Intel and co-sponsor NVIDIA, the Dallas CPL competition boasts a huge bevy of cash prizes. More than $200,000 is at stake in the official competitions for Counter-Strike: Source, Counter-Strike (version 1.6), Day of Defeat, WarCraft III and Halo 2. The CPL World Tour competitors will play Painkiller (version 1.64) in a one versus-one deathmatch format.
More than 6,500 gamers from nearly 60 countries have already registered for the challenge to compete. The massive event will sprawl more than 150,000 square feet of space at the Gaylord Convention Center.
More information on the event is located at http://www.thecpl.com/summer2005/