For Immediate Release
CPL Officially Announces The Cyberathlete®
Extreme World Championships
Dallas, Texas - Tuesday, April 6, 2004 - Today, the Cyberathlete Professional League® (CPL) officially announced its grand event for 2004, the Cyberathlete® Extreme World Championships, primarily sponsored by Intel and their Intel® Pentium® 4 processor with HT Technology Extreme Edition, and co-sponsored by NVIDIA, Hitachi and CompUSA. The Extreme World Championships will take place Wednesday, July 28 to Sunday, August 1, 2004 at the brand new Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas.

Although the event had not been officially announced until today, thousands of gamers from all over the world already have registered online, also booking rooms in three different hotels at record levels.

In the competitor category, over 1,600 gamers have registered to participate in one of four official tournaments, making it the world's largest professional computer games competition.

A projected purse of $250,000 in cash prizes will be offered for all four official tournaments as follows:

• $100,000 Counter-Strike Tournament - sponsored by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies


• $50,000 Call of Duty Tournament - sponsored by NVIDIA


• $50,000 Battlefield 1942 Tournament - sponsored by NVIDIA


• $50,000 Halo PC Tournament - sponsored by NVIDIA

About 2,000 people have registered for the CPL's Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) area. BYOC registrants can bring computers, monitors and peripherals to the event and connect via Ethernet, to a switched 10/100 Local Area Network (LAN) . The CPL provides a variety of gaming servers which BYOC attendees can use to play, practice and informally compete with each other.

Additionally, over 30 companies have already signed up to host exhibitions at the Summer Extreme Championships. A complete list of exhibitors and exhibitor activities will be released in early May. The exhibition area will be the largest ever for a computer game competition and will feature exhibition booths from Intel, NVIDIA, Hitachi, CompUSA, Shuttle, PNY, MSI, NetFire, NCSoft, Novalogic, Mad Dog, Corsair, Antech and others. The CPL estimates that about 10,000 people will visit the exhibition area during the five-day event.

The main stage, located in Intel's exhibition area, will host not only the final tournament matches (featuring large split screens and plasma monitors for public viewing), but will also host a music concert featuring the band Reflection Theory. Reflection Theory will perform music from their new CD to be released during the Extreme World Championships. The concert will take place Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at 8:00PM.

Event registration includes the following categories:

• 1. Competitor ($80) - Competitor registrants can participate in one of the official tournaments.


• 2. BYOC Attendee ($80) - BYOC registrants can bring their computers to the event.


• 3. Spectator ($20) - Spectator registrants have access to the spectator area, exhibitions, workshops, music concert, non-official tournaments and sponsor giveaways.


• 4. Exhibition Attendee ($5) - Exhibition registrants only have access to the large exhibition area. The online registration for this category will open Monday, May 3, 2004.


• 5. Media Passes (free) - Members of the media and press can request free access to the event by following the instructions located here.


For more information on the Cyberathlete® Extreme World Championships visit: www.thecpl.com/extreme/