Did you know that winning online games can pay big money? Yep, the gamers have gone pro, forming the Cyberathlete Professional League. After Counter-Strike became wildly popular, tournaments began to appear, and with them, a group of players so expert that they went professional. They have sponsors, some of them can make as much as $100,000 per year.
For example, in December of this year Intel is sponsoring the CPL Pentium® 4 Processor Winter 2003 Championship in Dallas. The tournament games will be Half-Life Counter-Strike with a cash purse of $100,000, and Halo for Windows with a cash purse of $30,000.
CPL has a European division and, perhaps a little less intimidating, there is also a Cyberathlete Amateur League.
The CPL would like the gaming community to vote on what game to include in their Summer Tournament for 2004. Counter-Strike is the game used most often for tournaments, but you may be interested in the nominees:
- Day of Defeat
Team Fortress Classic
Call of Duty
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Savage: The Battle for Newerth
America's Army
Medal of Honor
Soldier of Fortune II
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Battlefield 1942
Quake 3: Arena
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
StarCraft
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