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The CPL World Championship Event in December 2001 was filmed by ESPN. In an attempt to legitimize esports as a professional sport, players were required to use their surnames in competition instead of gaming aliases. The main event of the World Championship was the Counter-Strike tournament, which was sponsored by Razer with $10,000 in prize money.
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The Counter-Strike series has over 20 years of competitive history beginning with the original Counter-Strike.Tournaments for early versions of the game have been hosted since 2000, but the first prestigious international tournament was hosted in Dallas, Texas at the 2001 Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) Winter Championship, won by the Swedish team Ninjas in Pyjamas.
Professional competition is centered in North America and Europe in tournaments such as the World Cyber Games, CEVO, ESEA League, Intel Extreme Masters, Cyberathlete Professional League and the Electronic Sports League. The defunct league Championship Gaming Series franchised teams with contracted players who played Counter-Strike: Source.
Professional Gamers League: The PGL was early professional gamers league based in the United States formed in Nov 1997. [24] [25] The first world finals were hosted in Seattle in Jan 1998. [26] Though short lived, they held one of the earliest professional Starcraft tournaments in Nov 1998. [27] United States: 1997–1998 World e-Sports Masters
The 2005 CPL World Tour was a year-long gaming competition held by the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL). This competition took place throughout 2005, with a total of nine international stops and a finals event held in the New York City, United States and televised by MTV.
In 2004 it became one of the first professional eSports teams in the world when it began paying its players. [1] [2] Team3D won Counter-Strike at World Cyber Games 2004. [3] Tylenol was a sponsor for Team 3D for a period during 2005. [4] In 2005 3D won the WCG US finals in both CS and Halo 2, qualifying for the World Cyber Games 2005 grand finals.