Fatal1ty wins CPL World Tour Finals

The Painkiller showdown at the CPL World Tour Finals in New York ended in a victory of Fatal1ty over VoO in four straight maps of 15 minute deathmatches. VoO came in to the tournament having won the last 5 of 9 events.

MTV broadcasts the finals over the web on their “Overdrive video channel” here and recaps the final in print here.

Congratulations are sent out to both finalists as Fatal1ty rakes in $150,000 as the champ while VoO gets $100,000:

“Despite losing the finals, Kaasjager was awarded an MVP trophy from Intel, an accolade for having racked up the most victories during the tour (he scored 3306 frags; Fata1ty nailed 3191). For that he won $20,000 and took $100,000 for his CPL second place for a total season earnings of $232,000. Still he wanted to win and was kicking himself for failing to take out Fata1ty during a late-match round that his opponent had forced into overtime.”

If you’re wondering about what it takes to compete at this level there is an interesting article lead in to the tourney and profile of Fatal1ty by Matt Sedensky of the Associated Press as he unfortunately compares professional gaming to “be in a class with professional poker or competitive eating.” Read it here.

Furthermore the CPL site is reporting that on Sunday November 26, 60 Minutes will be airing a story on electronic sports and the Cyberathlete Professional League.