Sorry if this has been posted, but has anyone else noticed that cal's starting up a cal starcraft league?

I this this has somethingto do with the start up of CPL Korea, since I'm sure they want starcraft there.

mdb

Bulgaria4059 Posts

April 07 2006 01:12 GMT

what is cal?

Sfydjklm

United States9218 Posts

April 07 2006 01:15 GMT

umm, link? Wouldnt make sense about CPL, they have experienced cutbacks, but theyll add one more game?O_O

SojT

United States789 Posts

April 07 2006 01:32 GMT

what are you talking about?

ploy

United States416 Posts

April 07 2006 01:37 GMT

www.caleague.com

IntoTheWow

is awesome32278 Posts

April 07 2006 02:04 GMT

Wow starcraft added to CAL

Lukeeze[zR]

Switzerland6838 Posts

April 07 2006 02:06 GMT

cal-i cs 1.6 is pretty much dead (all the teams left for CEVO), they're maybe trying to get a new public. But it's strange because cal/cpl have always been fps tournaments, totally ignoring rts games.

[-Bluewolf-]

United States609 Posts

April 07 2006 02:17 GMT

I wouldn't recommend playing in this league myself - this is actually the 2nd time CAL has had Starcraft.

The first time was 4 or 5 years ago, and they held a pre-season that my brother and I competed in. Immediately after that ended, they posted the main season had been delayed.... and that was the official word for weeks. So, after awhile of that, I went to visit the CAL website expecting to find the same stale newspost, only to be surprised to find it had finally changed! To the message of "Page not found". Ok....but when I randomly tried it at school, the page came right up.... it just lacked a Starcraft section now....

So, basically, the removed the entire section, didn't tell us, and the site automatically redirected those signed in to a portion of the site that no longer existed. Real nice of them - and as CAL doesn't offer prizes usually, I would recommend avoiding it.

YoMeR

United States263 Posts

April 07 2006 02:26 GMT

hahaha CAL doing starcraft.....All it's good for is CS...and now that's even getting jewed up.

mnm

United States4493 Posts

April 07 2006 02:32 GMT

#10

damnit.. talk about confusing.. cal starcraft != op cal kk.. y did they have to steal our name.

funkie

Venezuela9376 Posts

April 07 2006 02:36 GMT

#11

On April 07 2006 11:32 mnm wrote:
damnit.. talk about confusing.. cal starcraft != op cal kk.. y did they have to steal our name.

They will get our attention! T_T!

;o

Yogurt

United States4258 Posts

April 07 2006 03:46 GMT

#12

Wtf is a cal? I thought you were talking about california at first =(

Lukeeze[zR]

Switzerland6838 Posts

April 07 2006 04:01 GMT

#13

CAL stands for cyberathlete amateur league, it's an online league owned by the CPL (cybertathlete profesional league)

dronebabo

10866 Posts

April 07 2006 04:51 GMT

#14

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intrigue

Washington, D.C9935 Posts

April 07 2006 05:58 GMT

#15

cal is very big if you play counter-strike or other competitive fps. good players on public servers often get asked at what level of cal they competed at: the skill levels from lowest to highest goes cal-open, cal-intermediate, cal-main, cal-premier, cal-invite. this may have changed since i stopped playing cs competitively, i think there is no longer a cal-im and cal-m is much easier to get into now (the average player in cal-main used to be the pgtour starcraft equivalent of a B+ - A- player)

they are the amateur version of cpl (cyberathletic professional league) which may be more well-known, holding large tournaments which again draw mainly the eyes of the fps communities.

red.venom

United States4651 Posts

April 07 2006 06:08 GMT

#16

Could be cool. I dont know:D

racebannon

Canada1225 Posts

April 07 2006 06:10 GMT

#17

CAL is an online league which is pretty strong for the various incarnations of CS (1.6, CZ, Source) but for every other game it's pretty bad. As it has been around the longest it's what's used to determine skill, much like how people say they are B or A on pgtour, they would say what division they were or are in for CAL.

It's not a money league, and I doubt it will catch on for Starcraft. I imagine the skill level and activity will resemble what WGTour is currently like.

I will probably sign up for kicks because I'm CS:S Main but I don't expect it to last, because Starcraft leagues, even the online ones, pretty much require money to interest top players. Unlike CS where the only money that can be had is on LAN.

I'll predict that if it's an induvidual league it will fail, if it's a team league it might be fun for non top teams to take part in an organized league. And if that's the case I want to join a clan

ploy

United States416 Posts

April 07 2006 06:29 GMT

#18

lol of course you cs fanboys would assume that cals only worthwhile for cs leagues. It's big with nearly every popular fps game, but yea, whenever it has rts leagues it's kind of a joke.

tKd_

United States2916 Posts

April 07 2006 08:25 GMT

#19

wow starcraft in cal. now we can actually tell those cs players why rts is better

Coldboy_vn

Vietnam239 Posts

April 07 2006 11:03 GMT

#20

CAL have Prize ?

Zeto

United States2290 Posts

April 07 2006 11:07 GMT

#21

hope they stick to it this time.

linyu)wufan18

1198 Posts

April 07 2006 20:26 GMT

#22

On April 07 2006 20:03 Coldboy_vn wrote:
CAL have Prize ?

I'm pretty sure not

Zeto

United States2290 Posts

April 07 2006 21:00 GMT

#23

they have prize money for CPL. not for CAL.

so unless they decide to go as far as hosting starcraft CPL tournaments, no prizes. it makes sense though, since CAL is all online, they probably (most likely) wont even have anti-hack protection like PGT.