# 2006 Cyberathlete Professional League World Season

The 2006 CPL World Season was a series of electronic sports competitions organized by the Cyberathlete Professional League in the fall of 2006. It was a follow-up of the 2005 CPL World Tour and was announced by the CPL on July 1, 2006.
The tour featured two games, Counter-Strike and Quake 3. After a total of seven qualifier events, the finals were held on 16–20 December 2006 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Dallas, Texas. The championship finals had a total prize purse of $150,000 and were won by fnatic (Counter-Strike) and Paul "czm" Nelson (Quake 3).

## Results
### Counter-Strike

| Championship Finals | | | | 4th |
| Dallas | fnatic Oscar "Archi" Torgersen Patrik "cArn" Sättermon Harley "dsn" Orwall Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg Kristoffer "Tentpole" Nordlund | MeetYourMakers Ola "elemeNt" Moum Lasse "Xione" Stokke Preben "prb" Gammelsæter Geir-Stian "juven9le" Svendsen Sondre "REAL" Svanevik | Pentagram Lukasz "LUq" Wnek Mariusz "Loord" Cybulski Wiktor "TaZ" Wojtas Filip "Neo" Kubski Jakub "kuben" Gurczynski | Against All Authority Guillaume "Geno" Ntep Marc "bisou" Naoum Steeve "Ozstrik3r" Flavigni Fergus "ferg" Stephenson David "Xp3" Garrido |
| Season Stop | | | | 4th |
| Nordic | Ninjas in Pyjamas | H2k-Gaming | 69°N-28°E | Fainted |
| South Korea | Lavega Gaming | Project_kr | gehenna | Series of Win |
| China | Star.ex | Hacker.Gaming | wNv Gaming | TR |
| Italy | Against All Authority | A-Losers | Goodgame | TBH.e-Sports |
| Brazil | g3nerationX | Made in Brazil | Team Bye | GameCrashers |
| Singapore | fnatic | Team Speed-Link | Team Hybrid | Hacker.Gaming |

### Quake III

| Championship Finals | | | | 4th |
| Dallas | Paul "czm" Nelson | Zhibo "Jibo" Fan | Anton "Cooller" Singov | Alexander "Z4muZ" Ihrfohrs |
| Season Stop | | | | 4th |
| Nordic | Zhibo "Jibo" Fan | Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira | Alexander "ZamuZ" Ihrfors | Maciej "zik" Jaku |
| Australia | Andrew "Python" Chacha | Peter "Ventz" Kidson | Sean "Hotw1rd" Dalton | Robert "Kiddie" Kidson |
| Italy | Magnus "fojji" Olsson | Marcel "k1ller" Paul | Zhibo "Jibo" Fan | Alexey "apo5tol" Altshuller |
| Brazil | Daniel "Ryu" Souza De Lima | Diogo "met" Fressato | Vitor "apo" Proto | Rodrigo "agu" Lima Wanderley |
| Singapore | Zhibo "Jibo" Fan | Brian "DKT" Flanders | Andrew "Python" Chacha | Meng "RocketBoy" Yang |

## World Season events
### Singapore

* Location: Singapore
* Date: September 15–17, 2006
* Games: Counter-Strike, Quake 3
* Winners: fnatic, Fan "Jibo" Zhibo

### Brazil

* Location: São Paulo
* Date: November 15–19, 2006
* Games: Counter-Strike, Quake 3
* Winners: g3nerationX, Daniel "Ryu" Souza De Lima

### Italy

* Location: Verona
* Date: November 24–26, 2006
* Games: Counter-Strike, Quake 3
* Winners: Against All Authority, Magnus "fojji" Olsson

### Australia

* Location: Perth
* Date: November 25–26, 2006
* Games: Quake 3
* Winner: Andrew "Python" Chacha

### China

* Location: Chengdu
* Date: November 25–26, 2006
* Games: Counter-Strike
* Winners: Star.ex

### South Korea

* Location: Seoul
* Date: November 27, 2006
* Games: Counter-Strike
* Winners: Lavega Gaming

### Nordic

* Location: Jönköping
* Date: November 30 - December 3, 2006
* Games: Counter-Strike, Quake 3
* Winners: Ninjas in Pyjamas, Fan "Jibo" Zhibo

### Championship finals

* Location: Dallas
* Date: December 16–20, 2006
* Games: Counter-Strike, Quake 3
* Winners: fnatic, Paul "czm" Nelson