Fatal1ty Wins Inaugural DOOM3 Championship
World’s Leading Pro Gamer Dominates Deathmatch Final,
Electrifying Crowd, Also Wins Shootout Exhibition Matches 79-1
(QUAKECON, Dallas, Texas) – Fatal1ty, at age 23 and already the world’s most recognized and accomplished professional PC video gamer, added to his championship record by winning the NVIDIA DOOM3 Inaugural Deathmatch Championship, pocketing $25,000 and dazzling a crowd of more than 2,000 at QuakeCon, the largest PC gaming festival and LAN party in North America.
Adding to the excitement was the highly anticipated launch of DOOM3, which has been available nationwide for less than two weeks. After losing a preliminary match to fellow professional gamer “Daler” (Sean Price), 20, Fatal1ty came back to beat him in the final two “must win” matches, clinching the DOOM3 Championship in a stunning display of skill, dominating his opponent by scores of 13-1 and 14-4.
It was a huge event overall for Fatal1ty, who in between tournament games also played an 80-match DOOM3 Shootout exhibition that packed the QuakeCon exhibit hall each of the 3 days. He played all comers, pros and amateurs alike, in rapid succession, winning 79 of 80 matches (with his only loss in the four-minute Shootouts coming from Daler). The cumulative score was 584 frags for Fatal1ty and negative 21 for QuakeCon challengers.
In addition, his technology arm, the Fatal1ty Brain Trust (FBT) announced the first Fatal1ty branded product, a super-performance motherboard designed for the demanding specifications of PC gamers, to be released in the fourth quarter of 2004 by ABIT Computer Corporation. A full line of purpose built Fatal1ty brand system components are in development for release throughout 2005.
Fatal1ty will now kick off a world exhibition tour, with stops in 17 international locations over the next 75 days, including Berlin, London, Seoul, Milan, and Beijing, climaxing with an exhibition match at the Great Wall of China for the largest single game purse in the history of PC gaming – over $125,000.
About Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel
Johnathan first got involved in tournaments in October 1999, where he finished third at the CPL national championships. Just two weeks later, he was invited to represent the USA in Stockholm, where he went undefeated, beating top pro players from across the world. He decided to turn pro, and has continued to dominate competitions all over the world, including in Singapore, St. Louis, Los Angeles, New York, Dallas, Korea, Germany, Australia, Holland and Brazil.
At QuakeCon 2002, he faced off against his rival ZeRo4 in one of the most highly anticipated matches of the year and ended up winning the match in a 14-(-1) flawless victory. He went on to place third overall in the event and fourth at the World Cyber Games USA a few months later. To top it all off, he won CPL Pentium 4 Winter Champions event in December for Unreal Tournament 2003, a victory which netted the CPL Champion of the Year for the third year in a row - each Championship was for victories in a different game. For more information, visit www.fatal1ty.com.
About QuakeCon 2004
QuakeCon (www.QuakeCon.org) is a free convention held every year in the Dallas, TX area. Thousands of computer gamers from all over the world make the pilgrimage to play with their friends on a giant gaming network, see the latest cool technology, and compete in a world-class tournament. QuakeCon is sponsored by id Software, makers of the immensely popular DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein series of games. QuakeCon is a huge party for fans of computer gaming in general… from the hobbyist to the hardcore. Title sponsors of QuakeCon 2004 include id Software, NVIDIA, AMD and Activision. Key sponsors are Linksys, Chenbro and VIA.
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