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To those wanting to compete....
Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:40 pm
by Serpent
I hear a lot about people wanting to compete in CAL... CAL this, CAL that... well, chk out this excerpt from
http://www.thecpl.org/league:
http://www.thecpl.org/league wrote:
Launched June 26, 1997, the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) is the world's first videogame sports league and has been the major force in the transformation of videogame competitions to a professional sport.
Over the past nine years, the CPL has hosted 50 international main events with a total attendance of 250,000 gamers, has sanctioned over 500 international qualifiers and has awarded $3,000,000 in prizes.
The Cyberathlete Amateur League (CAL), the CPL's online amateur division, has 500,000 registered members and hosts year-round online tournaments for over 60 game divisions.
I hadn't known previously that CAL was just a way lower scale to CPL...I'd say...if you are going to aspire for something....think big... go for CPL instead of CAL.
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 1:59 am
by Baron[CotC]
CPL holds physical events, you have to commit lots of time and money to go to them and compete.
CAL is an online league for fun.
It isnt just a matter of one being a "bigger scale" than the other -- they are built for two completely different purposes
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:09 am
by Serpent
Baron[CotC] wrote:CPL holds physical events, you have to commit lots of time and money to go to them and compete.
CAL is an online league for fun.
It isnt just a matter of one being a "bigger scale" than the other -- they are built for two completely different purposes
ok, not *just* a matter of one being bigger than the other... but CAL is like... on the way... to being good enough, to compete with the 'pros' in CPL. hehe
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:20 am
by Baron[CotC]
if you absolutely dominated CAL to the point where nobody could even come close to beating you...
then you'd have a slim chance at not getting mega-owned in the CPL
Cal
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:06 pm
by wingwhiper
Like said, CAL is a start, a road leading to CPL. CPL which requires us going to europe and other forgien countries, which I doubt any of us have time for. Let's forcus on CAL, because CPL could happen but it's unlikely.
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:54 pm
by BD
IIRC, when I was playing with FMJ before I deployed, we took CAL in Desert Combat.