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...and they chose Heroes of Newerth as their first major event.
(SINGAPORE) - August 31, 2010 - The pioneer in video game tournaments, the CPL (Cyberathlete Professional League), announced today that its online electronic sports league, CAL (Cyberathlete Amateur League) will be re-launching. The CPL has partnered with S2 Games to run a North American online tournament for Heroes of Newerth (HoN) in conjunction with the launch of the new Caleague.com (CAL). "I was very pleased when the CPL approached us about the launch of the new CAL" said Marc DeForest, CEO and Founder, S2 Games. ‚"The Heroes of Newerth competitive scene has grown significantly since release and competition is getting fierce. That makes HoN the perfect title for the re-launch and we are very happy that they chose HoN to be the first league showcased." Registration for the league will open on September 1 and run through September 29. 128 teams of five people per team will be allowed to enter this inaugural tournament for the new CAL. The format will be 5v5 in a single elimination in a best of one for prelim and best of three for quarter finals onwards bracket beginning on October 8 and ending on October 24. The winning team will receive Hotel and Airfare to the DreamHack 2010 winter event, where they will compete against seven other international teams for $15,000 in cash and prizes! DreamHack Winter 2010 takes place November 25-28 in Sweden. In addition to this 5v5 HoN league announcement, CAL will be announcing new 2v2 and 3v3 format leagues for HoN in the coming months. Stay tuned for more details on these new HoN game modes, as more cash and prizes will be offered for both leagues. Detailed tournament rules will be posted September 15th. Register now at www.caleague.com
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Awesome, the more leagues, the merrier.
I hope their next addition to the game lineup is Starcraft 2 ;o!
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If Angel is still running it, that's unlikely funkie. He hates SC for some reason.
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Angel sold CPL to some random company a long long time ago, so I doubt it. I know he started up some other company but I forget/don't care what it is.
Interesting choice in HON, but would be cool to see some nice shoutcasted matches of that. Hope they adopt SC2 somehow, though- although Blizzard seems to have their American and Korean partners (MLG and GOM) in the bag already.
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I remember playing in CAL for COD. I was a scrub, but those were some damn good times. If they come to SC2 i'll be happy.
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too bad CAL is a really corrupt league 
either way, we'll see if they have fixed things to have a solid core of legit admins.
(btw many people think the selling to these other companies is a PR scheme to boost morale on CAL/CPL -- especially considering that the CPL owes players money)
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On September 03 2010 02:47 Nokarot wrote:
Angel sold CPL to some random company a long long time ago, so I doubt it. I know he started up some other company but I forget/don't care what it is.
Interesting choice in HON, but would be cool to see some nice shoutcasted matches of that. Hope they adopt SC2 somehow, though- although Blizzard seems to have their American and Korean partners (MLG and GOM) in the bag already.
iirc the company he 'sold' it to turned out to be a sham.
*shakesfist at angel*
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yyeah, cal and cpl were extremely corrupt and really went downhill after 2005. Don't know what to think about this.
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I don't care if they were corrupt, they won alot of good players money and that was the most exciting counter-strike league I have ever played in.
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They ripped off a lot of people and owe a huge debt to a lot of legit players. The g7 gaming teams have barred them.
http://www.g7teams.com/page/frontpage/
the CPL that is.
This organization also came out on the coL forums as being massively shady behind the scenes as well.
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Please do not trust CAL or CPL. They have a long history of screwing gamers over. Support other leagues and LANs that are player-oriented, not a league that has a self-serving history of corruption and scandal.
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On September 03 2010 04:18 krew406 wrote:
I don't care if they were corrupt, they won alot of good players money and that was the most exciting counter-strike league I have ever played in.
They didn't pay a lot of these players. As a spectator it looked like they "won a lot of good players money," when in reality they never paid quite a bit of it out.
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I guess in that sense they sucked but as far as organizing a free league for gamers of all types it was probably the best while it lasted
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Kennigit
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This brings back really good times.. they really need to bring sc2 into this
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Meh, this league was never good. No prizes, only FPS games, corrupt administration; CAL always had problems.
edit: I hope they never touch SC2 and soil it like everything else they have used to run their corrupt business.
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Gonna play in this if I can get a team together, looks like a fun league. As long as it runs well I couldn't care less about prizes, not gonna win anyway.
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Germany7312 Posts
Is CS gonna be carried? Hope so
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CAL brings back good memories, but I don't think it will be the same ever again...
Top teams won't take them seriously till they pay the players.
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