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The Cyberathlete Amateur League (or CAL) is a large online electronic sports league operated by the Cyberathlete Professional League that allows players to test their skills against each other in a variety of multiplayer games, usually in the first-person shooter category. Although CAL is a U.S.-based organization, it is slowly expanding into a global level offering competitions for European players at some games. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (720x720, 33 KB) Summary The CAL Logo has been created by Shane Taylor, and is a registered trademark of the Cyberathlete Professional League. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (720x720, 33 KB) Summary The CAL Logo has been created by Shane Taylor, and is a registered trademark of the Cyberathlete Professional League. ... Online means being connected to the Internet or another similar electronic network, like a bulletin board system. ... Electronic sports, abbreviated e-sports or eSports, is used as a general term used to describe computer and video games that are played as competitive sports. ... The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) was founded in 1997 by Angel Munoz as a professional sports tournament specializing in computer videogames. ... Online gaming redirects here. ... Maze War, one of the two candidates for the first FPS. This article is about the video game genre. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ...

History

The Cyberathlete Amateur League was created when a very popular online league, Frank Nuccio's Domain of Games, was acquired by the Cyberathlete Professional League, created by Angel Munoz. Since then CAL has grown to a user-base of well into the hundreds of thousands and continues to see growth every year. The league was officially launched online as the Cyberathlete Amateur League in 2001. The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) was founded in 1997 by Angel Munoz as a professional sports tournament specializing in computer videogames. ... Angel Munoz (born March 6, 1960 in New York City, New York) is the Founder & President of the Cyberathlete Professional League[1]. Once referred to as the Father of E-Sports,[2][3] Munoz, is one of the major players in its history and is still a driving force today. ...

Structure

CAL's structure is composed of leagues which make up the whole, each league is further sub-divided into smaller sections called 'divisions' each division of a game is geared towards a specific set of team and individual player skills. The most popular CAL game by far is Counter-Strike, a fast-paced tactical first-person shooter based on the Half-Life engine developed by Valve Software. Other popular games include America's Army, Day of Defeat (another Half-Life mod), Call of Duty 2, Battlefield 2, Starcraft, and Warcraft III. Counter-Strike (CS) is a popular team-based mod of Valves first-person shooter (FPS) Half-Life. ... Maze War, one of the two candidates for the first FPS. This article is about the video game genre. ... Half-Life For a quantity subject to exponential decay, the half-life is the time required for the quantity to fall to half of its initial value. ... Valve Software is a Bellevue, Washington-based video game developer made famous by its first product, Half-Life, which was released in November 1998. ... Americas Army (also known as AA or Army Game Project) is a tactical multiplayer first-person shooter owned by the United States Government and released as a global public relations initiative to help with U.S. Army recruitment. ... Day of Defeat (DoD) is a popular team-based multiplayer World War II first-person shooter computer game of the European Theatre of World War II. The games graphics and sounds have been influenced by the movie Saving Private Ryan and in the past has even made use of... Call of Duty 2 is a first-person shooter video game and sequel to the critically acclaimed game, Call of Duty, also developed by Infinity Ward. ... Battlefield 2 (abbreviated as BF2) is a computer game in which players fight in a modern battlefield using modern weapon systems. ... StarCraft is a real-time strategy game by Blizzard Entertainment. ... Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, released by Blizzard Entertainment in 2002, is a real-time strategy computer game // Overview An in-game screenshot of humans (blue) fighting orcs (red). ...

Within each game's tier there are different divisions which are indicative of teams ability to compete at higher levels of play. Counter-Strike, the largest tier, has five internal leagues that teams must work their way up, with a few exceptions. They are CAL-Open (CAL-O), the only division with open registrations; CAL-Intermediate (CAL-IM), which includes the winners of the previous Open season or if you have proof of being worthy of CAL-IM; CAL-Main (CAL-M), which includes the winners of the previous Intermediate or top Open season; CAL-Premier (CAL-P), which has winners from Main, as well as high-ranking Main teams from previous seasons; and finally, CAL-Invite (CAL-I), the highest rung that has only the best teams that have proven themselves over many seasons. Each game league follow this naming system but not all games have a large enough following to warrant every tier, new games usually start with everyone in an open division and take the best teams to first form main and invite divisions.

Each league within each game has three conferences, Atlantic, Central, and Pacific (based on the geographic location of the team), and these conferences are further broken down into different divisions that are randomly chosen at the beginning of each season.

Each division has a head, who is a volunteer that oversees the overall operation of the division. Each league also has a team of administrators, capped by one lead head for all of the game. There is also a team of administrators who work primarily on cheating disputes made from teams and an anti-cheat team to prevent hackers/cheaters in the league.

While CAL has been only available to America since its creation, CAL currently has European leagues for Warsow, America's Army, Battlefield 2, Call of Duty 2, Day of Defeat: Source, Counter-Strike: Source and many other popular games. Warsow is a standalone first-person shooter game for Microsoft Windows and Linux; it uses a 3D Engine based on Qfusion (a modification of Quake II GPL engine). ... Day of Defeat (DoD) is a team-based multiplayer World War II first-person shooter computer game. ... ...

CAL and Cheaters

As with all online leagues, occasional cheaters can and will be encountered in CAL. Some seek to ruin the online experience of others while others strive merely to provide disinformation.

CAL, as with other leagues, relies on a combination of human judgment as well as supplementary tools to combat the spread of cheating and other rule violations.

Newly implemented was the use of the Cal Anti-Cheat System (ACS) in 2007. Currently ACS is required for all Counter-Strike 1.6 and Counter-Strike: Source league matches, and will eventually be released for league wide use. Players are required to run the ACS program while competing in CAL matches. The ACS checks for the use of illegal configuration files (for example bunny hop scripts) and also for illegal command variables (CVARs).

CAL and CPL

CAL is the free and amateur division of the Cyberathlete Professional League. The CAL competitions are used by the CPL as a supporter for the seeding, as a qualifier for the main CPL events and as a way to maintain year-long competitions for the fans. The Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) was founded in 1997 by Angel Munoz as a professional sports tournament specializing in computer videogames. ...

Links

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External links

• Cyberathlete Amateur League Official site
• Cyberathlete Professional League Official site