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Monday, 02 July 2001 -
"small" recap of the CPL 4-Year event.   $comment_count ?>
The CPL 4-Year event has come and gone, and with it came many memories of the CPL’s past and some visions of the future. This event hosted some of the greatest talent of many communities, including Quakeworld, Counterstrike, Quake3, Promode, Serious Sam, and I even saw some Diablo2 players attending. Any spectator of this event was treated to a wide variety of gaming culture.. This event was a worthy birthday celebration for the CPL. So what exactly happened during the course of the biggest birthday bash of the year? Lets take a look: (note, I will ONLY be covering the main tournament and BYOC sections. Other events included; Senior gaming league tournaments, Serious Sam tournament, Unreal tournament event, Clash of the Titans finals, and many many raffles.)

Quakeworld:

The quakeworld tournament was without a doubt the spotlight event the entire time. With the entire BYOC area and the projector spectator area filled with spectators, and a WORLDWIDE qizmo setup to allow QuakeTV broadcasts around the world, and even IRC updates with Quake Radio, the coverage for this event was excellent.

The event itself was worthy of the coverage it received. While early matches all consisted of blowouts, the tournament started to get really interesting at around the third round of the winners bracket. With matches such as Rapture vs FienD, ZeRo4 vs Thane Cyan (whom earned an upset win over Virgil and the 12th seeded Stitch), and Core vs Goonter (whom upset Mugwump in a VERY impressive DM4 game), it was clear that the best was yet to come. Here are some useless facts about the tournament:

Highest frag count on DM2: 56 frags – czm vs beer
Highest frag count on DM4: 75 frags – czm vs beer
Highest frag count on DM6: 52 frags – ZeRo4 vs GoodBoy

Most exciting game: czm vs HarlsoM – DM6
Least exciting game: Fiend vs ZeRo4 – DM2 (final score 1-0 in OT)
Most anticipated match: czm vs HarlsoM

29 games were won via forfeit: 13 in the winners bracket, 16 in the losers bracket

3 games went into OT: Fiend vs ZeRo4 (dm2), Fatality vs Harlsom (dm2), and Lost Cause vs Thane Cyan (dm6)

Harlsom knocked Core (final standing: 2nd place) into the losers bracket. Seeded number 10th, he then had to face Rapture, Rix, Xoque, FienD, and Czm for another shot at Harlsom in the tournament finals. Every player Core defeated in the losers bracket was seeded lower then him.

Congratulations Harlsom for a well earned victory in the Quakeworld tournament. All demos from this event are hosted at Challenge-TV.

BYOC was filled with many entertaining moments, but I belive that when asked what was the most interesting aspect of the event, you’ll be hearing a lot of the God Game Girls. To give you an idea on what went on, think of David Lettermans “stupid human tricks” with the prize being a free t-shirt and some video games. Often times when the God Game Girls entered the BYOC event, there were more spectators watching them then the tournament in which they came to participate in. Some things that really stood out were:

Someone whom poured coke all over himself
Someone licked the soda from the cardboard box the first person was standing on
Three people dropped their pants for free T-Shirts
And one person ran around the BYOC area with a pair of dirty underwear (no, not boxers) on his head

It is interesting what people will do for a free T-Shirt from an attractive girl.

Another interesting activity from the BYOC area was the playstation game Dance Mania. From what I hear, it is a CPL Night time tradition, and it went on all night. When I asked Angel and Monte to participate, Angel said maybe tomorrow, and Monte said hell no! heh :) No CPL staff on the dance machine this time around.