Organizer
Tournament edition
CPL Europe London 2001
CPL Europe London 2001 brought 25 Counter-Strike teams to London from Aug 3 to 5, 2001. Ninjas in Pyjamas Counter-Strike won the EUR 15,000 competition.
Competition snapshot
Host and dates
Novotel London West, London, United Kingdom · Aug 3–5, 2001[3]
Champion
Combined prize pool
EUR 15,000[1]
Games
Participant scale
25 teams[1]
Category
Organizer
Commercial note
Tournament organizer · Recorded in the 2001 edition.[1]
Category
Sponsor
Partner
RazerCommercial note
Tournament sponsor · Recorded in the 2001 edition.[1]
Category
Sponsor
Partner
IntelCommercial note
Tournament sponsor · Recorded in the 2001 edition.[1]
PTG Database Analysis
CPL Europe London 2001 was a Counter-Strike S-Tier tournament organized by the Cyberathlete Professional League. Liquipedia lists Razer and Intel as sponsors, records 25 teams and a prize pool of EUR 15,000, and identifies London as the host city. Esports News UK identifies the Novotel London West, then known as Novotel Hammersmith, as the event venue. The final standings list Ninjas in Pyjamas Counter-Strike as champion and armaTeam Counter-Strike as runner-up. The Liquipedia bracket also shows United CS Squad as a playoff entrant. Liquipedia reports a converted USD value of 13,197.36.[1][3]
Liquipedia lists 25 teams, but its current group tables leave several names unavailable. PTG links the 17 named entries that can be matched to canonical Counter-Strike Team pages: Ninjas in Pyjamas (Champion); armaTeam (Runner-up); GameOnline (3rd place); SK.ger (4th place); Nordic Division (5th place); Clan Z (6th place); CS Armageddon (7th place); All Stars (8th place); LCA (9th–16th place); CSA.sca (9th–16th place); 4Kings (9th–16th place); Spirit of Amiga (9th–16th place); M19 (9th–16th place); Nocturne (9th–16th place); Goodgame (9th–16th place); mTw (9th–16th place); Against All authority (17th–24th place). The participant list remains partial.[1]
References2
- [1]CPL Europe London 2001 — Counter-Strike — Liquipedia Counter-Strike Wiki
- [2]The History of UK Counter-Strike Esports — CPL London 2001 — Esports News UK
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