Winter is knocking on the door, and once again it's time for the clash of the greatest teams in CPL Winter 2006! The CPL 2006 Championship Finalswill take place Saturday, December 16 to Wednesday, December 20, 2006at the Hyatt Regency Hotelin downtown Dallas.

Qualifiers have been held in 8 countries all around the world, at every qualifier 2 spots were handed out for this year's final. The CPL has chosen for a 64-team CS 1.6 tournament, this left plenty of slots available for open registration.

Even though the majority of teams attending will be quite unknown to a lot of us the most famousare also amongst them, including NiP, SK, 3D, mYm, mibrand a lot more! Be sure to check HLTV.org every now and then for the latest games.

Prize breakdown for the event will be as following:

Place	Prize money
1st	$30.000
2nd	$21.000
3rd	$14.000
4th	$9.000
5th	$6.000
6th	$5.000
7th	$3.000
8th	$2.000
9-16th	$1.250

If you want to keep yourself up-to-date with all matches, and your favorite teams, make sure to check in here on HLTV.orgwhen the first matchesstart, Sunday the 17th December!

Links

• CPL Winter 2006 Coverage
• TheCPL.com