New Changes for CAL

[CSN NewsBot]

Hey all! Hope you had a great New Year. Just got this hot off the presses from the CPL itself. Apparently there are some major changes headed for the Cyberathlete Amateur League. Among them are a new structure, a completely new division, some changes to CAL-i, some changes to how moveups will be structured and new sponsorships.



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CPL Announces New Changes for CAL

The Cyberathlete Professional League today announced some significant changes to its amateur division, known as the Cyberathlete Amateur League or CAL. CAL is the fastest growing online computer gaming leagues in the world, with over 250,000 registered members and year-round online tournaments. The official website for CAL is located at www.caleague.com



I. New Structure

CAL will now become an integrated division of CPL and the CPL top management structure will also manage the operation of CAL. Therefore, CAL's president is now Angel Munoz and the commissioner is Frank Nuccio. All sponsorship programs and advertising opportunities are now also managed by the CPL.



II. New Division

The CPL has created a new division for Counter-Strike tournaments in CAL. This new division named "Counter-Strike Premier" will give aspiring teams an opportunity to receive well-deserved attention, and the opportunity for top teams to receive merchandise prizes, provided by the Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT Technology Extreme Edition.



III. Invite Changes

The next season for the "Counter-Strike Invite" tournaments will have the following changes:



a. The top two winning teams of CAL Counter-Strike Invite will receive $2,500 each to travel to the CPL Summer 2004 Extreme Championships, sponsored by the Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT Technology Extreme Edition.



b. The final match between these two teams will take place on Wednesday, July 28, 2003 at the Summer 2004 Event's Intel Exhibition Pavilion. The Intel Exhibition Pavilion will have a large stage area for final tournament matches



c. The winner of the final match will receive merchandise prizes, provided by the Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT Technology Extreme Edition.



IV. Season Changes

The length of the season for Counter-Strike Invite will now be five months, with the final match taking place at the Summer 2004 Extreme Championships. A season break will take place in mid-April and an All-Star match will also be held that month. If any CAL Counter-Strike Invite teams leave the division or disband during this new expanded season, Counter-Strike Premier teams will be invited to join the Invite division.



V. New Servers

Competitions in both CAL Counter-Strike Invite and CAL Counter-Strike Premier will be hosted on the recently launched CAL Game Servers(tm). For more information on free and premium CAL Game Servers visit www.calgameservers.com. To view the location of all CAL Game Servers refer to the map on this page.



VI. Sponsorship

The Intel Pentium 4 Processor with HT Technology Extreme Edition has become the first official sponsor of the Cyberathlete Amateur League, and the exclusive sponsorship of Counter-Strike Invite and CAL Counter-Strike Premier is the first of its kind for any US online gamer's league.



We ask that the online gaming community explore the official website for the Intel® Pentium® 4 HT Extreme Edition and support the companies that are helping CPL with these first initiatives to offer more professional online competitions at CAL.

[Spartibus]

All of these changes definitely are for the better, that's for sure.

[Sovereignty]

Nice idea for them to fly both teams out and have the final match played on lan.



I was hoping for something like an MR15 switch though. All these changes are just structure-wise. Nothing really affects gameplay.

[HowlinMadMurphy]

Sounds very intriguing. I wonder how they're gonna work the All-Star game.

[xlokix]

i've always wondered why cal never gave prizes or anything at the least, thats cool

[-adrenaline-]

wow nice..CAL has just taken online league to another level =)

[JRules]

I wish there was a solo league where you could play cs 1 vs 1. Now I know that everyone is going to say that CS is a TEAM game. Well yah but every so often I like to play 1 on 1 vs my friends to see who is the best. Get some smaller maps, and it would be awesome.

[Antinous-ODY]

so the link to the servers is messed up... but i can still get there, just fix it 4 nubs

[RaptorRage]

So do we get to deal with people bragging on the public servers about how they are in CAL-P now...

[Splatula]

lol



This will be great for pro gaming. It's like the CS olympics.

[Mikemike 2.0]

Good cchanges. And only n00bs call people nubs, but that's just my opinion.

[EtErNiTyU]

i like the idea for an All-Star game, i hope the community gets to vote for the players

[Tool]

Wow, I always wanted them to have the finals on LAN. Nice that they pay for the expenses as well. I wonder if they'll divide the all-star players onto teams according to conferences or something.

[KhAoS]

Tool wrote..

Wow, I always wanted them to have the finals on LAN. Nice that they pay for the expenses as well. I wonder if they'll divide the all-star players onto teams according to conferences or something.

Probably, since that's what they do for major sports leagues, and CAL wants to be as much like those as possible.

[|Iron Chef| Boyardee]

And what happens to the CAL-P team that wins prizes and later is found to have used cheats?



Until they can get this game cheat-free anything less than CAL-I is a waste of time. I played in CAL for three seasons, then quit my second season in IM after having FOUR matches overturned due to the other clans cheating in ONE season. And now I see in a recent CAL cheater list some of the same people that hacked against my clan.



What's the point in spending all that time practicing as a clan if the other team is going to cheat you out of victory?



Controlling/eliminating cheating needs to be this league's top priority. But alas it may be too late for CS, perhaps CS2 will fair better.