$45,000 up for grabs at Australia's Largest Gamesfest

Over 500 avid game fans from around the country and overseas will cart their PC's to Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne this weekend to take part in the largest computer games event seen in Australia. The Atomic Maximum Power CPL Pacific Championships are being organised by games event company AusGamers and hot new PC magazine Atomic Maximum Power Computing. The event runs non-stop over 3 days from Friday 30th March with over $30,000 in giveaways and $15,000 in Tournament Prizes.

Event organiser, Steve Trickey says "This is a significant step forward in bringing Australia and New Zealand up to speed with the rest of the world in terms of this new form of professional cybersport. That we have star players from US, Sweden, Russia and Korea attending testifies this is not an event to be overlooked".

Highlights of the weekend include:

--500 player BYO-PC event with $30,000 in prizes and giveaways provided by Atomic, Microsoft, Guillemot, Creative, Ferraro, Jolt Cola.
--3 days of non-stop computer gaming on a $250,000 Network provided by Cisco Systems with servers by Gateway
--CPL Pacific championship tournaments with $15,000 prizepool
--Appearances by star overseas game players "Fatality" "Polosatiy" "Elan"
--$250,000 Network provided by Cisco Systems, Servers by Gateway
--All attendees receive subscriptions from Atomic Magazine

CPL Pacific is the Australia and New Zealand division of the Cyberathlete Professional League. Headquartered in Dallas US, the CPL has already gained international recognition and it's recent events have provided purses in excess of US$100,000. The league's star player Johnathon "Fatality" Wendel earnt around US$85,000 in prize money alone by competing in such tournaments.

AusGamers (http://www.ausgamers.com) operates Australia's largest network of online and offline services catering to computer and game enthusiasts. This includes an extensive mix of online news, hosting and event management services in addition to a national group of offline gaming LAN events at which social and competitive elements of multiplayer gaming are enjoyed.

Atomic (http://www.atomicmpc.com.au) is Maximum Power Computing. It's not a mag for corporate buyers or retailers or linux enthusiasts. Atomic is for people that love their PC, know everything about their gear and are never happy with their PCs performance. Atomic pushes PCs to the limit - partly for the sake of finding out what is possible, partly so we can run CS with everything turned up but mostly because it's cool fun. Read Atomic and rock harder at CPL.

Player entry to the event is $40 payable at the door, spectator admission is $5 per half day session. Press passes are available - for further information contact event organiser
Steve Trickey on 0401 307 434 or check the website at http://www.cplpacific.com

Free Subscripting for 500 people , heh cool!

haha what a stupid name for a magazine

should be "Super Champion Atomic Maximum Elite Power Computing"

that'd be much more catchy

heh, yeah or just 'PC powerplay' would be even stupider :P

melbourne lol

For those thinking "pfft I'm not going to Melbourne" you can get a return ticket from Qantas for $193.60

heh 97% for unreal

cheap!

sif Unreal 1 isn't awesome.

Well, we've booked 7 flights for clan mP to fly down. It just so happens that we booked the same flight down/up as SAS. Rest assured...we'll be wreaking havoc.

some cs_747 s*** goin down

I'm just glad I'm not flying Golly Gosh airlines....