Cyberathlete Professional League

Prize Money Awarded:

$4,077,929.80 From 115 Tournaments

Recorded Date Range:

1998-07-22 to 2013-08-03

The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL), founded on June 27, 1997 by gaming entrepreneur Angel Munoz, is a professional sports tournament organization specializing in computer and console video game competitions.

Launched in Dallas, Texas, the CPL is considered the pioneer in professional video game tournaments, which have been held in the US, Europe, Latin America, Australia and Asia. The CPL has distributed more than US$3,000,000 in cash prizes.

In 2008 the CPL annouced it would cease operations, but was later bought by an investment group in Abu Dabi. In 2010 it was announced that WoLong Ventures PTE acquired the CPL. Since then the CPL has continued running eSports, but only in China.

Largest Prize Pools

	Tournament Name	Prize Money
1.	» CPL World Tour Finals 2005	$510,000.00
2.	» CPL Summer 2003 (Counter-Strike)	$200,000.00
3.	» CPL World Tour Finals 2007 (World in Conflict)	$200,000.00
4.	» CPL World Championship 2001 (Counter-Strike)	$150,000.00
5.	» Babbage's CPL Tournament (Quake III Arena)	$100,000.00
6.	» CPL Summer 2002 (Counter-Strike)	$100,000.00
7.	» CPL Summer 2004 (Counter-Strike)	$100,000.00
8.	» CPL Winter 2002 (Counter-Strike)	$100,000.00
9.	» CPL Winter 2003 (Counter-Strike)	$100,000.00
10.	» CPL Winter 2004 (Counter-Strike)	$100,000.00
11.	» CPL Winter 2006 (Counter-Strike)	$100,000.00
12.	» CPL Winter 2007 (Halo 3)	$100,000.00
13.	» CPL World Tour Finals 2007 (F.E.A.R.)	$100,000.00
14.	» Razer / CPL Tournament	$100,000.00
15.	» CPL Winter 2005 (Counter-Strike)	$60,000.00
16.	» CPL Summer 2005 (CS:Source)	$54,000.00
17.	» CPL Brazil 2005 (Painkiller)	$50,000.00
18.	» CPL Chile 2005 (Painkiller)	$50,000.00
19.	» CPL Italy 2005	$50,000.00
20.	» CPL Singapore 2005 (Painkiller)	$50,000.00
21.	» CPL Spain 2005 (Painkiller)	$50,000.00
22.	» CPL Summer 2004 (CoD)	$50,000.00
23.	» CPL Summer 2004 (Halo)	$50,000.00
24.	» CPL Summer 2004 (UT2004)	$50,000.00
25.	» CPL Summer 2005 (Counter-Strike)	$50,000.00

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Top Players

	Player ID	Player Name	Total (League)
1.	Fatal1ty	Johnathan Wendel	$348,026.97
2.	Vo0	Sander Kaasjager	$225,500.00
3.	stermy	Alessandro Avallone	$115,800.00
4.	ZyZ	Benjamin Bohrmann	$107,996.29
5.	Ztrider	Alex Ingarv	$75,000.00
6.	Booms	Vincenzo D'Aurelio	$49,200.00
7.	Potti	Tommy Ingemarsson	$46,506.11
8.	HeatoN	Emil Christensen	$46,275.28
9.	wombat	Mark Larsen	$44,975.00
10.	ahl	Michael Korduner	$44,504.04
11.	Jagad	Henrik Dahl	$42,000.00
12.	gellehsak	Andrew Ryder	$36,750.00
13.	elemeNt	Ola Moum	$36,403.28
14.	Stelam	Stephan Lammert	$35,675.00
15.	Fisker	Christer Eriksson	$33,293.55
16.	tRONic	Fredrik Håkansson	$31,900.00
17.	OGRE2	Tom Ryan	$30,750.00
18.	XeqtR	Jørgen Johannessen	$29,954.87
19.	ZeRo4	John Hill	$29,300.00
20.	Makaveli	Victor Cuadra	$27,300.00
21.	4 Glory	Marc-Andre Messier	$25,500.00
22.	vesslan	Johan Ryman	$23,768.22
23.	czm	Paul Nelson	$23,000.00
24.	terry15	Terry Lindle	$20,500.00
25.	Hyb	Johan Carlund	$20,152.84

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Top Games

	Game Name	Prize Money
1.	» Counter-Strike	$1,519,466.17
2.	» Painkiller	$1,005,000.00
3.	» Quake III Arena	$412,722.13
4.	» World in Conflict	$280,000.00
5.	» F.E.A.R.	$178,000.00

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Online/LAN Breakdown

Location	Prize Money	% of Total
Online Only	$0.00	0.00%
Offline/LAN	$4,077,929.80	100.00%

Top Countries

	Country Name	Prize Money
1.	United States	$1,271,511.35
2.	Sweden	$845,869.51
3.	Germany	$333,723.05
4.	Netherlands	$255,214.83
5.	Italy	$235,825.00
6.	Norway	$180,847.63
7.	Canada	$152,674.99
8.	United Kingdom	$119,267.79
9.	China	$79,494.34
10.	Brazil	$68,899.72

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