The Cyberathlete Professional League was founded in 1997 by Angel Munoz, he himself a keen gamer. The best of the UK's gamers will be competing at Bloodline in the Intel Pentium 4 Processor Extreme Edition Challenge III to get a chance to be in the Winter CPL even in the USA. We bring you the lowdown on the CPL, and how it has become what it is today.
Munoz has been a gaming fan since the days of ‘Pong’ and this transferred into his professional life as an investment banker where he specialised in financing new technologies. He was so successful that by 1994 he was able to retire! With more time on his hands, Munzo launched the Adrenaline Vault, a website dedicated to all things gaming. Through the contacts he made with AV, Munzo soon realised that there was, at that time, a huge gap between what developers assumed they could peddle to gamers and what gamers actually wanted.
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