--FiRsT PoSt--

*NUKED*

Sorry, but the whole thing stinks if you ask me.
For so many reasons.

CPL LLC= Limited Liability company. If you know a bit about business you'll know that the greatest of all benefit of an LLC is protection from being personally liable for the debts and obligations of your business. I won't mention the fact that texas (where Angel resides) has repalced franchise tax with that of a margin. it's still the CPL, its just more protection for them at the expense you the players.

Ms Summers from Dubai?

Cadreg has been researching...
http://web.archive.org/ (cadred.org)

Sorry people you need a bit more than two years web presence to be a source I take as Gospel.
I'm not saying cadreg are dodgy, but I am saying you're not something I do trust either mr Finnish hockey guy.

So far, the only sources of information are...

http://web.archive.org/ (cadred.org)

The CPL

Middle East

and newworld.com, which is surprise surprise a domain owned owned by
Munoz, Angel dns@newworld.com
NewWorld.com, Inc.
Post Office Box 670663
Dallas, TX 75367-0663

A P.O. box too for extra unaccountability on top of the whole middle east thing.

There is not ONE SINGLE accountable/reliable source and while that could be down to it being fresh news, IMO it's more to do with the fact that something is probably rottern in Denmark.

And while I'm too smart to jump on the "I hate angel band wagon, cos the same people probably hate microsoft too" I found many of his choices to be corrupt and transparent.

I assure you Angel is at the helm of all this. Wait and see, and when I get more sources, I'll prove it :)

He probably closed CPL, to get rid of the debts and the money it owed. It's almost text book.

Now I'm curious, care to explain who are you referring to by this:
"...but I am saying you're not something I do trust either mr Finnish hockey guy."

I took the name off the cad dns and its Kimmo Vaha-Ruohola
http://www.qpad.se/modules/news/article.php?storyid=307

Used to be a pro ice hockey player for Finland.

my point is as of yet there is no reliable source.

There are no reliable sources, especially in eSports

Personally I find cadred more reliable/trustworthy than most, second to GotFrag I suppose

The WHOIS is meaningless, the CPL's parent company NewWorld has been around as long as the CPL. It's not exactly uncommon for a business to have a PO box.. especially considering the CPL has no office

true, but were talking about CPL here.

We're talking about...

Hey let's host a 64 player tourney with 50k.

Then, they make it 128 then they make it 256, then they make it 512, with NO impact to the original purse, even though the chances of a player obtaining success have dropped dramatically. You would sued or compensated in any other field.

We're also talking about a company that appears to have paid out half the money it promised in the CPL WT.

I really don't see any benefit to buying the CPL brand.

The only people that know it are people who are people heavily into esports, it has ZERO mainstream commerical value and its held with a lot of contempt within pro-gaming circles.

that is why I am deeply suspect. If I had money to put into esports, I would distance myself from the CPL, not restart it.
That is why I am suspect of its rebirth.

CPL lost all its main sponsors towards the end.

We're also talking about a company that appears to have paid out half the money it promised in the CPL WT.

I don't believe Vo0 got paid. I think he's somewhat afraid to come clean about it, for some reason.

Maybe he reckons that if he bitches about the CPL it will ruin any chance (however small) that he might get paid in the future ...

Saying anything bad about cpl = you don't get paid

Which is why no gamers spoke out about them not paying for 4 years

I guess Voo has more at stake than most :/

New world are SELLING it, and announced so, they don't have anything to do with the new business AFAIK. You didn't need to do any lookup or so, it says who are the members of New World right on the website. No name of the buyers yet except this woman, who is a spokeswoman for a yet to be named company.

We'll have to wait.

nice piece of investigating journalism

isnt angela summer a pornstar? :))

lol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Summers

i knew it :))))

Angela Summers Alias(es): Stella Blue = Blue + Stelam (?)
seems two in one is not just an expression

angela >> angel

OMFG! QUAKE 3 is fked!

World of WarCraft plz, kthx

Fuck you nerdz ! :<

GeeK, not NerD.

Fuck You nerd !

WoW my ass

Oh I will...

that's not really a good thing....

Go Die plz

World of WarCraft is a great choice for E-Sports. It has a ton of people playing. The only downfall is Blizzard has all control over it.

What games for new CPL tournaments ? "Banjo hero" , "Dora l'exploratrice broodwar" and "Call Of Dummies" ?

"Dora l'exploratrice broodwar"

Someone create this mod please.

Ride That Cock II and Cock Arena III

Abu Dhabi? Hmm well money shouldn't be a problem. Just curious what games they are gonna use.

Ahahahahahahahahaha :DD::D:D::D:D::D:::D:D:D:D:D:D:D:

LMAO@Muslims

It's not that this was serious. ... ... right?

This is either going to be a really GOOD league, or a really BAD one.

Anyone from Dhabi and Dubai can do whatever the fuck they want with the money they have. They could make some giant un-profitable worldwide Quake Tournament, and do it for 5 years, they don't care.

But, we'll see what happens.

are they know something about quake?

i wasnt quite sure they knew about computers yet

spammah is there to educate them! :D

if i flip a coin I predict it could go Heads or Tails!

sometimes, it can also fall on the slice..

thats how your gas money spent.



also, gooo ali nab winning on home soil !

It would be nice to have CPM or Quake 4 in next CPL :))))

lol

In before thread flooded with nothing but LOL and all it's variants.

Spammah got some connections

Yes, this is Spammah investing %0.000000001 of his money!

I FOUND THE OFFER

"Sponsors are sketchy, not my problem"

I lol'd

lol this is either a hoax, or another round of cpl failure :D

Poll plz.

come back to cpm and i'll do a poll :p

Tuesday 1 April 2008 – Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirate and Dallas, Texas, USA

fyp, bit late on that one.

\care

f.e.a.r. comes over me :(

stop talking CPL u Angel Munozes

paco!

more scam

in Arab Emirates, CPL pays your prize in virgins! (or camels.. whatever floats your boat)

Virgins with big camel toes.

Whatever, you dont get to see them

"Are you my virgins?"

I hope not.

games will be flight simulator and fiesta.

So pro-gamers of the future will be flying airplanes into buildings and then celebrating?

I feel like crying and laughing out loud at the same time.

seriously?
it isn't April 1st anymore, and the post that day was good enough as it is, no need for a sequel.

this is a new trap by the JOKAAARR!!!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHHAH HOHOHO HIHIHI HEHEHHE AHAHAHAH HJAHAHAHAR OUHOHOHO

any quake schedule ?

Angel will never die.

Let's kill Angel.

And tbfh, people have and will continue to be killed for less serious scams than he put on.

now you've got FRA on your back!

FUCK IM NOW AFFILIATED WITH HIMMmmmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMrw arawrwadawdafafadsa

Nigeria missed out on this one. :(

http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/jail-gr...19867.html
:D

Nigeria 2 : 0 Australia

I'm looking forward to seeing "Play hard, go pro, join Al Qaeda!" ads in QL..

Prey hard, Go blow:)

pray*

See I knew that, see how gaming corrupts your mind. Well mine anyway!

Play hard go porn? ;D

Gotta admire Munoz for being able to make money off a dead horse.

Anyway this may be great news. The tournaments will probably be lousy but think of all the petrodollar prizes. Those guys in Dubai are really living it up like there's no post-oil tomorrow to worry about.

maybe now angel munoz can pay everyone he still owes money to....

cause they still got oil for like 50 years when they are all dead and even the generation 300 years after them can live off of the money they made o_O

Dubai doesn't have any oil.

but people who got the oil live there. :P

well at least it was saved by the emirates ^^ ...for how long? well they dont care :))

GOOD NEWS FOR PROMOD FANS!!! This Angela Summers person is already involved with Promod!

http://www.ameinfo.com/64048.html

She's mentioned at the bottom I'm not kidding.

No news about promodE yet though.

lol

i would've nearly [+]'ed you, but then i recognized, that you are not Gladius :O

<3 Gladius

awwww aren't you sweet =)
Godsmurf = (co-)founder of clanbase btw, our own belgian e-sport hero!

i'll add that to my gaming-memory! but it won't chance my attitude towards you :D

well actually not. But it is how he likes to tell it anyway.

http://www.dubaiholdinggroup.com/
fashion police!! now you need to be good looking and well dressed to take part at cpl events!

Is it april already? belarussian UAE businessman buys CPL

Told ya... we'll see if this turns out to be true

you bought cpl didnt you, just admit it!

lol no

sif

he bought it with his pocketmoney :[

This time it isn't April 1st!

"sanctioned 600 international qualifiers and awarded $3 million in cash prizes. It began as a small LAN event in Dallas, Texas, and went on to initiate world-class competitions across five continents."

Interesting how it fails to mention what happened this part...And also "awarded $3m" is not the same as "paid $3m".

Would be nice if it goes well, hopefully gamers wont allow themselves to be screwed over this time if everything is not legit!

I awarded my friend 1 million dollares.

http://www.gameexpo.ae/specialEvents.htm

Coincidence?

.

And it'll be hard for T teams to build up an advantage as they'll be required to remain in range of their bomb.

:D

Beware of traps

nooo

rotfl

i`ll get my turbant

Why did Sasha Tsapaev sold them the CPL?

:P

i for one welcome our new overlords :D:D:D:D

u fark?

I can't imagine how racist some people can be. You guys obviousy don't know shit about Dubai or Abu-Dhabi.

The only thing you can spit out is racist bull***t. Maybe it is time to read more about those countries.

I think that Abu-Dhabi and the emirates buys CPL can be one of the best thing for E-sports. They have endless of money but they also have the right people who can work with these kind of things.

More than 60% of Dubais population are foreigners and many of them from western countries and they have a great life. I have been there several times. So don't mix Dubai or Abu-Dhabi with other stricter muslim countries.

I think they were just joking, but let me apologize on behalf of them.

Thanks, you are right indeed.

i think that u cant see when something is a joke or serious

shut up terrorist.

HELLOOOOOOOO CAPTAIN OBVIOUS !!!!!!!!!!

I translated a book on Abu Dhabi/Dubai/Qatar recently and yes, they are completely wrong. But you are totally missing the point. The point is that they don't want CPL back, don't care and hate CPL anyway.

agreed. Dubai's one of the best places to party in too.

It's a great place to party, just as long as it's a non-alcoholic party:

http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=52553

The men and women are kept separate:

http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=52553

The men are all straight:

http://baklaako.com/2008/dubai-gay-men/

And nobody has any drugs or porn:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/m...001314.ece

Besides, that it's one hell of a place to party!!!

err... dunno wtf that is but i've personally been to several nightclubs in Dubai where there's a lot of alcohol flowing. i went there in february this year. i think the only restriction on alcohol is that you have to buy it from a hotel or something... can't store bottles at home (not too sure about this). there were also plenty of hookers from all over the world. drugs are a strict no-no though... i heard the punishment is very severe.

Dubai has a very mixed population. lot of whites, blacks, asians and indians living there permanently in addition to the local population. if everything you pointed out was true... people would get the hell out of there asap.

edit : just checked and you need a liquor permit to buy alcohol outside of hotels, restaurants and bars.

grooverider a uk dj is locked up there cos they found some weed & porn(lol)on him, like 1/8

Anyone who calls themselves "grooverider" is obviously a twat and probably black.

Someone called gary glitter is obv a twat, white and rapes children, whats your point ?

Hi Angel!

u forgot one: most dubai people are quake3 vq3 players

"More than 60% of Dubais population are foreigners and many of them from western countries and they have a great life"

From this statement, I conclude YOU are the racist. Yes, the locals and the Europeans have a great life there, and apparently you don't consider anyone else. The Indian and Pakistani labourers in the UAE are generally treated like slaves however, with the same techniques used for forced prostitution in Europe, except that it's all legal in the UAE: the workers have to earn back the cost of getting them to the UAE (which takes years with their ridiculously low wages) and meanwhile their passports are taken so they can't leave. Add to that dangerous working conditions with lots of fatal accidents, and violent oppression of attempts to protest, and "slavery" is the right word.

Here's the Human Rights Watch report:
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/11/12/uae14547.htm

Well, I certainly applaud anyone wanting to do a hundred pushups, but take it from this old gym rat, I've spent my entire adult life in the gym, and a program like this one can do more harm than good.

If you only train one part of your body (and that's all a single exercise like pushups is going to do for you), you're setting yourself up for injuries down the road. I've seen it a hundred times.

It's like putting a powerful engine in a stock Toyota Tercel. What will you accomplish? You'll blow out the drive train, the clutch, the transmission, etc., because those factory parts aren't designed to handle the power of an engine much more powerful than the factory installed engine.

Push-ups basically only train the chest muscles and to some extent, the triceps. What you really want to do is train your entire body, all the major muscle groups (chest, back, abdomen, legs, shoulders and arms) at the same time, over the course of a workout. And don't forget your cardiovascular work!

I'm proud of you guys wanting to do this. Three cheers! Falling in love with exercise, eating right, etc., is one of the greatest things you can do for yourself. And you WILL fall in love with it if you can just force yourself to stick with it a year or two and experience the amazing progress you'll make.

But do it right, okay?

My advice, find a good gym, with qualified trainers who will design your programs for you (especially in the beginning, until you get the hang of it yourself) and guide you in your quest for physical fitness. Thirty to 45 minutes a day, three days a week, is all you'll ever need to do (I refuse to believe anyone is so busy that he or she cannot make time for that, especially considering how important it is).

And don't worry about being embarrassed or not being in shape the first time you walk into the gym. You have to start somewhere and almost every one of us were there ourselves at one time. So no one will say anything to you and very, very quickly you will progress way beyond that stage anyway.

Now get out there and do it! :-)

can't make up my mind is it a true thing or if Munoz is shitting us again

It's a sequence

first they tell us it's true and only then the shit on us

:D

So how much did they pay for the CPL?

.

they got ripped.

where's my Jeff Monson at???

FUUUCK


fail fail failfailfaifalfaofaifiaflafla

I checked calendar to be sure.

yeah I think rockband 2 is coming out soon! perfect timing!

fuck CPL !
and Angel Munoz: go fuck yourself !

Any news like this is good for everyone involved in esports.

I also realize they're a recognized brand, but more history than all other leagues combined? Right, they might be notorious but I would say it's for the wrong reasons. What a stretch...

I do hope this venture is successful, but please someone let the 'new' management for CPL know that hosting tournaments in the basements of a hotel went out of style in 2001.

"Cadred has been researching into this deal and can confirm this is not a fake."

http://www.cadred.org/News/Article/37110/

what the fuck is cadred?
i only saw a gazillion CS icons and closed it before i could find out what it is

You can put up with the cs news or miss out on the cpl information, xx

Does this mean painkiller is making a come back?!


HA

no, it will be replaced by a far better games, camel manager 08 and harem manager.

harem manager? what's this gonna be? dead or alive like beat em up but only only with girls?

cool... I was totally kidding btw.

i know :P

will it have gtv?

yes, and not only that, it comes bundled! .. with utTV and PKTV.. isn't that nice?

oh... and I thought that Harem Manager GTV will stream some more interesting things than Painkiller :/

FUCKING SHIT BITCH CRAP KILL SHIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

no one has mentioned severity yet, so i will.

FFS

die already cpl

What about Pizza Hut?

Why are people complaining? We just went from no CPL, to a CPL owned by rich oil tycoons.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

bignews

THIS.

I was so happy when it died, it would have its place in gaming history, and we'd be able to look back and remember all that it did.
THEN IT FUCKING CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD! WTF!
What kind of zombie gaming organization is this?! What do we have to do to really kill it this time? Look at the WSVG, its peaceful in its afterlife, and with the CPL you're constantly looking over your shoulder to make sure its not behind you.

Like #99 said,

Please, just die already.

WSVG was happy times :(

Look at the bright side, good thing about CPL is that you can count on it emerging from dust and keep mocking it and rejoice when it shoots another bullet in it's own leg!

CPL back on the back door
curse people plussing this pile of horse shit CPL news

It's not owned by oil tycoons, but I think the new CPL should be good =]

So how are things in the UK, Angel?

Oh, it turns out you're just some dumb kid. Bastard child of Angel, perhaps?

One of the few gamers who gets paid a salary to write about gaming, and one of the few people who's spent most of today on the phone with various people in Europe, America and Dubai to find out what's going on here, you call me a kid when you're posting comments like these =[

So... still zero credibility, and ignorant to your age.

you wanna e-fight?

I'll start.
http://notvedic.googlepages.com/1219125818198.jpg

http://notvedic.googlepages.com/1219125818197.jpg

k

I heard there's gonna be a CPL deal, competitors will get hotel rooms at only $499 a night!

thank God it's not 500 !

It's just another scam. I can't believe any of you trust this for half a second.

I've already confirmed this is true, and I think when it's announced who has bought it people will be quite happy =]

I wouldn't give a shit if you confirmed yourself the queen of France. You have ZERO credibility. Zero.

Woahwawiwa, mighty Corin confirmed this to be true.

i'm already booking my flight+hotel for the WinterCPL...

As I said below:

"It's a fair theory but it's totally incorrect, it's fine for people not to believe the genuinity of this story, CPL won't be announcing any events until they have announced the buyer (which will be within a month from now), and when the buyer is announce people will then be far more confident about the future of CPL.

Now sure, you probably don't know me (though I am paid to research this stuff well), but it doesn't matter if you don't see me as a reliable source, because within a month (and before you need to decide whether or not to trust CPL) you'll find out I'm right :)"

And until I'm proven to be correct, there won't even be any events announced, yet alone expectations of anyone to book flights =]

you see ... it's not that i don't trust you really. it's that i don't trust anybody involved in the CPL.

If the CPL is being owned and run by a completely different set of people, I don't see why the fact they share the name causes you not to trust them

I don't see why the fact they share the name causes you not to trust them

The fact that they're clueless enough to pay money for a brand that is associated with all this negative publicity doesn't inspire confidence.

CPL probably has a lot of unsold merch and the new owners probably see that as a boon. Already have a logo, merch, and their own in-dev competitive game!

CPL is back with a ca$h prize of 500 000 US $ on "Duke Nukem Forever"

OK CU in 25 years...

hmm.... I would be one of them I would be afraid of angry video game nerds that didn't get prize money.




Anyway, hope they'll support ql.

Why did the motherfucker buy CPL's brand?
The CPL brand stands for "Not paying out prizemoney".
Yes, a few years ago CPL was the shit. It was like the olympic games of videogaming.

But then something happened. Dont know what but one thing I know is that they never paid out the prizemoney.

But if they sell the brand. Then there should be some money involved, right? So what about cashing out those prizemoneys!

I think Jason Lake should take over the CPL. He has shown some great fighting spirit(with getting videogames big).

They're buying the brand, not the company. So don't expect any outstanding prizes to be awarded.

Yeah I know. But it would sure get the CPL brand fresh and clean for a start. Becouse now CPL brand is filthy and I dont see the point in buying it.

Yeah I agree. The brand has bad connotations at the moment (unless you're a sponsor I suppose - as they don't get ripped off). You would think, save the money buying the brand and just set up a new organisation altogether.

New ones are set up all the time after all.

Well the sponsor SHOULD also care.

If CPL got Intel as a "head/mainsponsor" that means that Intel is bound with CPL becouse you seen they go "hand-in-hand" so to speak.

I mean nike would not sponsor a "doped-athlete" becouse they would be associated with the "badman".

So its not so simpel either.

If they will pay out the prizemoney they didnt pay out earlier I got nothing against them, but i doubt this will happen :P dirty bussinesmans

:/

why not just start up a new company instead of acquiring the cpl? cpl didn't have the best rep.

Nah it's still got brand recognition. People are skeptical now, imagine if it'd been a completely new company nobody had heard of from Dubai...

good point

Yeah, I suppose bad reputation is better than none at all...

last april already!?

tf!?

Why can't they just fucking die!

Who you little bitches kidding.

If someone offered you a curly wurly and a chance to compete you would still do so.

You need ANY organisation more than it needs you.

that's why you get treated like poop. And always will because the demographics of pro-gaming will always be young and needy.

And that my little minions puts you at a loss from day one.
You can either accept that now or grow old and grey figuring it out for yourselves.

As long as there will be crooks like Angel e-sport won't get any true recognition.

But i definatly hope and believe the company from Abu-Dhabi will make something good out of this deal.

Give it a chance .

Sorry, but the whole thing stinks if you ask me.
For so many reasons.

LLC= Limited Liability company. If you know a bit about business you'll know that the greatest of all benefit of an LLC is protection from being personally liable for the debts and obligations of your business. I won't mention the fact that texas (where Angel resides) has repalced franchise tax with that of a margin.

Ms Summers from Dubai?

Cadreg has been researching...
http://web.archive.org/ (cadred.org)

Sorry people you need a bit more than two years web presence to be a source I take as Gospel.
I'm not saying cadreg are dodgy, but I am saying you're not something I do trust either mr Finnish hockey guy.

So far, the only sources of information are...

cadred
http://web.archive.org/ (cadred.org)

The CPL

Middle East

and newworld.com, which is surprise surprise a domain owned owned by
Munoz, Angel dns@newworld.com
NewWorld.com, Inc.
Post Office Box 670663
Dallas, TX 75367-0663

A P.O. box too for extra unaccountability on top of the whole middle east thing.

There is not ONE SINGLE accountable/reliable source and while that could be down to it being fresh news, IMO it's more to do with the fact that something is probably rottern in Denmark.

And while I'm too smart to jump on the "I hate angel band wagon, cos the same people probably hate microsoft too" I found many of his choices to be corrupt and transparent.

I assure you Angel is at the helm of all this. Wait and see, and when I get more sources, I'll prove it :)

He probably closed CPL, to get rid of the debts and the money it owed. It's almost text book.

It's a fair theory but it's totally incorrect, it's fine for people not to believe the genuinity of this story, CPL won't be announcing any events until they have announced the buyer (which will be within a month from now), and when the buyer is announce people will then be far more confident about the future of CPL.

Now sure, you probably don't know me (though I am paid to research this stuff well), but it doesn't matter if you don't see me as a reliable source, because within a month (and before you need to decide whether or not to trust CPL) you'll find out I'm right :)

...people will then be far more confident about the future of CPL.

I am quite confident about the CPL, in so far that it's a crock of shit.

You can provide me with all the evidence you want, it will not change my opinion about what the CPL pulled off in its last 2 years.

Well with a completely different set of owners, management and staff, there's no reason to assume that how CPL has been run in the past is anything like how it will be run in the future.

Don't get me wrong, I have no idea what events they plan to run, nor how successful they will be, but I am sure the issues of "CPL pissed off a lot of people, what do you plan to do about that" will be brought up in a few interviews

It will be handled like always:

Under the rug.

Why would you use the CPL name???????

Everyone who knows it hates them and does not trust them and no ordinary ignorant people who are not into pro-gaming know of them so you're basically starting off with a brand which has a bad rep when you're entering a market which is hardly filled with established names, so in other words, you could make one up because you have little or no competition.

yet you choose to use the very name which everyone doubts?

I never went to business school, but that does not make sense.
I gonna' put a light encryption on who I think it is :)
11101111001

Look forward to it :)

No idea why it was chosen, and just to clarify you said "yet you choose" - I have nothing to do with the people buying, the people selling, and I won't be working with or for them in the future (as far as I know)

So let met get this straight, you come to ESR when a post about this was made in order to "confirm" that it was real, despite the fact that you have absolutely NO ties to ESR previous to this. You apparently have exclusive information that it is real, when any real media source doesn't have any. You also quickly jump to defend your claims, despite the fact that you say you can't back them up until "a buyer has been announced."

Honestly folks, this is Angel needing more money and putting on a big show to make everyone think it's okay to come back and pay fees. It's not hard to invent a company or persona, as has been done countless times now. Don't give them a dime.

"You apparently have exclusive information that it is real, when any real media source doesn't have any"

I am a real media source, it's my job, and my aim isn't to pursuade anyone to support CPL before you know who's bought it, my aim is to get people to click the link to the article on Cadred - once again, doing my job =]

As to angel creating a new persona or company, once it's announced I think you'll be confident that that isn't the case.

honestly unless ESWC now own them, no one is going to give a fuck.

As to angel creating a new persona or company, once it's announced I think you'll be confident that that isn't the case.

Again, you give lines like you're being paid. I like how you conveniently dismissed the fact that you joined ESR for the first time just to "confirm" this to us. You're a joke.

I am being paid. (not by CPL, but by cadred).

And I said in two other comments somewhere on this page, I came on ESR because cadred had confirmed it was genuine (while other sites were spouting nonsense about them using a pornstar's name), and it was a chance to get hits to cadred from people who don't read Cadred - no hidden agenda there =]

(oh, and I didnt "join for the first time", as you see I've been registered here since 2007, and I was registered before that only lost my account details)

join/post same thing. Suddenly, you felt that you had to make sure people weren't misinformed about this event on ESR. Nobody believes you. You're only hurting your own reputation MORE by standing by the CPL.

Not at all, I "felt the need" because having people who dont know cadred think we're talking rubbish for a month or two doesn't do us any harm, as you didnt know cadred anyway, and once it's shown we did know what we were talking about the positives out-weigh the current negatives =]

Heard it all before.

i think the Hill's have bought out Mr. Munoz.

ive known corin for for ages just coz he doesnt post on esr doesnt mean he doesnt read it. he is also good at what he does... although he wouldnt let me in on any secrets the big meany :(

I'm simply pointing out and rightly so that as of yet there is not one shred of reliable info. And when there is I'll be looking into it for free (I work with solicitors with certain things) and everyone involved and there are ways to see if Angel is involved.

Personally, I question the validity of anyone using the CPL name.

It has ZERO mainstream market appeal.
In the space of two days, the world knew who usain bolt and micheal phelps were. After 10 years, less than 1% of the gaming market know who CPL are and most of that 1% hardly speak positively of the CPL, so that is why I am suspect of the CPL.
given it pissed off its sponsors and a lot of gamers who have strong ties in the world of esports. Even idsoftware does not like them. Notice a trend?

If had money to invest in esports, I would distance myself from the CPL brand, not embrace it. That is why I am deeply suspect of any revival of the CPL brand.

Then again, if you look at what happened with Kwari, its clear there are people out there trying to make money from esport but have no idea how to do so. Anyone with a clue could have seen it was a TERRIBLE game, but apart from that it was well executed, so I can believe history will repeat itself.

I look forward to seeing more and someone or something that's accountable other than angels personal webpage and a random website.

Oh and PS, Cadred was bought earlier this year by Heaven Media Group, who own other sites such as DriverHeaven, it's not a finnish based site any more =]

I still question the validity of anyone stupid enough to buy a brand with a bad reputation in a niche market and one which has no commercial value.

Did you not do market research, or just continue the CPL way of doing what it wants when casual people on a forum point out time and time again the bad choices?

In mine (and probably most others) personal opinion that makes zero sense to use that name, which is why I will be looking forward to seeing who's who as I too get paid for info, by solicitors from time to time on Civil I.T. litigation at Royal Courts of Justice.

So I will be checking if there is a paper trail back to Angel and I promise you I will dig a lot deeper than a DNS registrant and web archive :)

Sounds yummy, do share eventually :)

I assure you the research I put into it didnt include web archives or dns searches =]

As to angel, I can't say he isn't involved as for all I know he could be, but I can say the buyer isn't a new persona of his

I look forward to it, but if Russia can "replace" Putin with Medvedev I'm pretty sure the same can happen in e-sports=)

Whichever way you cut it, it makes no logical sense for any honest/impartial person to use the CPL name without it benefitting Angel.

Thanks for your answers, but I know something is gonna' stink about this deal. But understand you're just the messenger so thanks:)

I agree with that. The CPL has a very bad reputation but aren't the Americans known as persons who are capable of selling everything? The CPL does have a long trackrecord. If a 'big' corporation wants to become active in a niche market, they usually intend to buy up a pioneer within that market. For us, buying the CPL doesn't seem to be a logical choice, knowing what they have done wrong to this industry. The CPL can be sold as the poineer of eSports. They did have some impressive events.

I personally agree with most of the people in here, that the CPL brand is worthless and that the CPL can better remain dead. A revival of The CPL would be a big joke in the community, with or without 'the father of eSports', Angel Munoz.

billion dollar world tour, here we come.

I have a bad feeling about this, that it's gonna be on shitty monitors

Buyer who's identity is not to be revealed?

Fatal1ty...

He ain't that stupid...

I really hope this fails, angel's CPL does not deserve to live given the crap they have done. I can't to hear who these buyers are. (imbeciles)

I've heard ali n.a.b. bought it.

Not.

he's from Egypt anyway

THE PRIZEOIL WILL BE 10.000 BARRELS!!

till then it'll be huge.

no

ANGEL MUNIZ OWES ME 75 DOLLARS!! and i want it right now! it's been like 2 or 3 years, christ....

If this turns out to be true then you can be sure that other esports tournament organizations will be soon to follow which, I think, will be good news for everyone :P