The 2005 CPL World Tour was a year-long gaming competition held by the

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(CPL). This competition took place throughout 2005, with a total of nine international stops and a finals event held in the

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, United States and televised by

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. The total purse was US$1,000,000, with $50,000 at each international stop, and a $500,000 final. The official game of the 2005 World Tour was ''

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''. The CPL's "strategic partners", organizations designated to operate regional World Tour stops, also chose to hold smaller tournaments for other popular competitive games, such as ''

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''. The World Tour Grand Finals took place between November 20 and 22 2005 and were hosted in

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, United States. The Finals hosted the top 32 Painkiller winners from all stops around the globe. They pitted in a one versus one tournament for the largest first place prize in the CPL's history: US$150,000. The total prize fund for the finals tournament was $500,000, the largest ever for a Painkiller tournament. The champion of the 2005 CPL World Tour was Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel, who took the grand prize of $150,000.

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was named the MVP of the tour, an award worth $20,000, and took $100,000 for becoming the runner-up in the finals. By this, Wendel took his fourth CPL World Championship, taking the crown back from Kaasjager, who had taken it from him a year earlier."The CPL Announces Past 1v1 Champions"
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Painkiller Results

Tour Stops

Turkey

* Location:

Istanbul, Turkey Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With a population over , it is home to 18% of the population of Turkey. Istanbul is among the largest cities in Europe and in th ...

* Date: March 25–March 27, 2005 * Champion:

* Strategic Partner: E-Sportr

Spain

* Location:

Barcelona, Spain Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a pop ...

* Date: April 29–May 1, 2005 * Champion: Stephan "SteLam" Lammert * Strategic Partner: E-Life Europe

Brazil

* Location:

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the sixth-most-populous city in the Americas. Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, the city wa ...

* Date: May 27–May 30, 2005 * Champion:

* Strategic Partner: Marketing Cell

Sweden

* Location: Jönköping, Sweden * Date: June 16–June 19, 2005 * Champion:

* Strategic Partner: E-Sport Entertainment Group

United States

* Location:

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, United States * Date: July 6–July 10, 2005 * Champion: Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel

Germany

* Location:

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, Germany * Date: Cancelled * This stop was cancelled due to "critical logistical challenges", this stop was replaced by the Italy stop.

United Kingdom

* Location:

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, UK * Date: September 2–September 4, 2005 * Champion:

* Strategic Partner
Gamefrontier

China

* Location:

Beijing, China Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...

* Date: Cancelled * This stop was also cancelled due to the Chinese

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's ban on ''Painkiller'' in China. A replacement stop was held in Singapore.

Singapore

* Location:

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* Date: October 14–October 16, 2005 * Champion: Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel * Strategic Partner: Edge of Reality

Italy

* Location:

Milan, Italy Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

* Date: October 20–October 23, 2005 * Champion:

* Strategic Partner
smau

Chile

* Location:

Santiago, Chile Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile (), is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is located in the country's central valley and is the center of the Santiago Metropolitan Regi ...

* Date: October 28–October 30, 2005 * Champion: Alexander "Ztrider" Ingarv * Strategic Partner
LAN-Z.net

References

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